In basis of book effective methodology of educating to work is fixed with the program 3ds Max on examples and exercises, checked for a few generations of students of speciality "Design". The methods of design of simple and difficult objects, creation of materials of any complication, instruments of animation, possibilities of animation taking into account the laws of physics, creation of illumination, methods of visualization, are examined with the use of mental ray, Arnold and V - Ray. Considerable attention is spared to персонажной animation. An electronic archive contains additional materials and exercises.For the wide circle of users.