Where can I get some good 3d studio max R3 articles? I''m a newbie with it so I''d like to know where I can get articles that explain what I''m doing. All the ones I''ve seen are just a step by step walkthrough on how to make a certain thing.

you can go to http://www.3dlinks.com they have a number of tutorials. I basicly learned MAX by working through tutorials and applying the concepts to whatever i wanted to do.

There are low-poly tutorials at (i assume that you are making game stuff):
http://www.3dlinks.com/tutorials/max/max_tutorials.cfm?tutorial=lpindex

and

http://www.saunalahti.fi/~ops/tutorial/lowhead/lowhead.htm

hope this helps

www.3dcafe.com has got some good ones too.