Acknowledgments
No book of any size is the creation of just one person, just as it takes hundreds of dedicated people to build a car or an airplane. I would like to thank the following people for their contributions, whether direct or indirect, in the completion of this book.
Thanks to Cris Robson of 3D Palace and Jon Bell for teaching me everything I know about 3ds Max modeling.
Thanks to the best publishing team an author could ask for: Beth Kohler, Alan McCuller, Martha McCuller, and Tim McEvoy.
Thanks to my wife, Anna, for her love and support.
Last, but definitely not least, thanks to Steve McPherson, my partner in crime and the best illustrator and LightWave artist I know.
This is the bot we create in this chapter, complete with texture and lighting.