Author › Adam Crespi
Adam Crespi is a renowned educator and trainer in 3D applications for computer-generated imagery. He has been teaching at the university level since 2000, and has been working in design visualization and animation since 1993. He has taught at The Art Institute of California — Orange County and DigiPen Institute of Technology, and he is currently teaching at The Art Institute of Seattle. Adam has lectured at numerous conferences and schools, including Autodesk University, Montana State University, The University of Oklahoma, and SIGGRAPH. Adam is also an Autodesk Certification Evaluator, and an Autodesk Certified Instructor in 3ds Max. Adam holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Southern California and a Master of Education from Argosy University. He wrote Achieving Invisibility: Architectural Visualization in 3ds Max (Fairchild Publishing) and the Autodesk Workbook for Design Visualization for the Solar Decathlon Competition. He has also helped design exams and training materials for Autodesk.
When he is not up to his eyebrows in any of the dozen applications he is fluent in, Adam enjoys baking bread, mountain biking, surfing, and chasing his three daughters and his two pets.
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Learn to rig a car model in Autodesk Maya for use in animation, games, design visualization, and visual effects.
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Learn basic level design techniques using the Unity3D game engine, and create environments that are fun to navigate, modular and easy to reuse, and highly interactive.
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Learn to create textures and add color, reflectivity, and other surface detail to your games with Autodesk Maya, Mudbox, and Adobe Photoshop.
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Find out how to set up the HumanIK rigging system in Autodesk Maya and start creating realistic skeletons for your 3D characters.
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Explore the world of modeling and texturing game props and assets, from tools to furniture, in Autodesk Maya.
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A practical guide to constructing 3D buildings that can be used to populate video game environments
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Explore the world of modeling and texturing game props in 3ds Max, from cloning to painting textures.
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A practical guide to modeling and texturing 3D urban environments for games in 3ds Max.
