Aug 29, 2006

“V-Rex” by Dan LuVisi 1. Now we start off with an idea. Something simple, don’t work too big of a canvas. Width:500 Height: 900 should suit you well. Now the whole thing is getting that perfect setup for what you want. Don’t ever do a straight on view, do something from the ground up or a birds eye view. You want to be thrown with the...

Aug 26, 2006

“Organic modeling – part 12” by Eric Maslowski This tutorial goes over the concept of specular maps and how to paint one using an existing bump map as reference. 3Dtutorials.sk recommendation: To maximise the realism of your 3D characters we recommend to use high quality human photo references from the #1 texture website www.3D.sk To see the...

Aug 26, 2006

“Organic modeling – part 11 ” by Eric Maslowski This tutorial goes over how to create bump maps and how to quickly create one using your color map as a starting point. It will also cover how to breakup your bump map with high frequency noise at the shader level for those closeup shots. 3Dtutorials.sk recommendation: To maximise the realism of...

Aug 20, 2006

“Organic modeling – part 10” by Eric Maslowski This tutorial takes a look at using reference photos for creating a head texture. If you have photographs that can work, there really isn’t any reason not to use them since they can often provide plenty of subtle details that would be very time consuming to add otherwise. These videos are a...

Aug 20, 2006

“Organic modeling – part 9 ” by Eric Maslowski This tutorials walks the user through a complete unwrapping session and points out problems often encountered when dealing with organic models. Such topics in these tutorials include: Pelt Mapping, Relaxing UVs, Unwrap UVW Setup, Pixel Distribution, etc. 3Dtutorials.sk recommendation: To maximise...