Jul 15, 2006

     “Organic modeling – part 1 ” by Eric Maslowski   This tutorial takes front and side reference images from www.3d.sk and prepares them for use as reference plates in your 3D package of choice. To see first part fromt great tutorial serie by Eric Maslowski please click on the thumbnail below.  To downlaod the...

Jul 14, 2006

“UV mapping ” by Wojtek “Buddy” Starak This tutorial is aimed for modellers who want to learn UV mapping. Before reading I suggest to take a look here and there. This is what wikipedia says: „ UV mapping is a 3D modelling process of making a 2D map representing a 3D model. This map is associated with an image known as a texture. In...

Jul 11, 2006

  “Lighting and Shadow basics – part 1 ” by Montree T. Ambient Light Ambient light is one of the most important parts of creating a realistic rendering becuase it sets the time and mood of picture that you are trying to create. The complete scene should be composed of a specular pass, a diffuse pass and an ambient pass. Some artists use...

Jul 5, 2006

“Female face texturing ” by Simon Nuttall About:This is an on going project to create and rig a female character, the aim is sort of a mixture of realism and stylization, Mental rays fastskin is used for the skin shader and 3dsmax hair and fur is used for the hair although this is still very much work in progress!! I was initially using hand painted...

Jun 25, 2006

“Level of details” by Wojtek “Buddy” Starak In this article I would like to talk a little about game models, optimization (model&uv) and LOD (Level of Detail) models creation. Before You actually start modelling anything, You need to know/have few things: -Good References- plan in advance your work, either by creating sketches or...