Apr 2, 2006

“Skullhead Mobster ” by Harshdeep Borah I got inspired for this character when I saw a sketch somebody did in my life drawing teacher Stephen’s sketchbook. It just clicked me and I thought of making it in CG. As always for my any project, I started off collecting some real life reference images and doing some research on how a human would look...

Mar 18, 2006

“Head texturing ” by Glen Southern MEET THE MODELSome decisions need to be taken at modelling time. You need to detail the model as much as possible in EDIT mode before moving onto texturing. If you look at the lips on the head below (1.1) I use the same sort of sequence for texturing a head time and time again. I usually start by `dropping` (TM...

Mar 18, 2006

“Spacemonkey” by Glen Southern The aim of this tutorial is to allow the reader to model and color a `Space Monkey` head using Pixologic`s ZBrush. At the time of writing the software has reached version 1.1 and Pixolologic have a downloadable demo copy available on their site. The Space Monkey can be made and saved or exported using the demo version...

Feb 23, 2006

“Eyeball” by Glen Southern As with most graphic packages there are always different ways to achieve an effect. This tutorial attempts to show you some of the best ways to make realistic eyeballsMETHOD 1 `PLANE3D AS A TEXTURE`1. Create a PLANE 3D TOOL from the TOOL panel 2. Turn off `Z` in the DRAW panel 3. Paint your eye onto the plane as you would...

Jan 19, 2006

“Fiber brush settings” by Glen Southern Get yourself a model that needs some hair. 3Dtutorials.sk recommendation: To maximise the realism of your 3D characters we recommend to use high quality human photo textures from the #1 texture website www.3D.sk Render him out using BEST RENDER in the RENDER panel with whatever light/material/shadow settings...

Jan 10, 2006

“Character Texturing ” by Julian Johnson-Mortimer Hello there, Welcome to my Texturing tutorial. In This one I will be texturing the head of the character I made in my modeling tutorial. Now I will be working in Photoshop, I should first say that for a good texture, you need a good UV map with a minimum amount of stretching. In my tutorial I went...