This is a pretty good book, but the examples need to show step by step in picture what is taking place. The first snag I ran into was the quick start. It tells you to do an outline and use the lathe modifier. There needed to be a picture of how he set up his spline. All we got was the finished lathed image. Until I loaded the file and removed the lathe modifier, I had no idea how he had drawn th intial spline. Overall it provides good instructions and I am glad to see better quality models than the ones in MAX 6 bible. Who wants to get taught how to use software, if the models look cheesy?