Nov 20, 2006

“Caustic effects ” by Mario Malagrino Caustics are really great light effects that you can observe in liquids, glass objects and gems. We are able to simulate this effect with 3D Studio Max perfectly. This tutorial about Caustics will work only if you enable “Mental Ray” ! (This tutorial was made by the Florence Design...

Nov 13, 2006

“How to work with vfb” by George Andriiciuc How to work with V-Ray Frame buffer when you think the scene is too dark. If you want to keep the lighting like in the real world and you use only one light (V-Ray sun), sometimes you see that the image that you get is a bit dark. Maybe you do not want to encrease the GI environment level to more than 1.6...

Oct 8, 2006

“Upside down ” by Mathias Koehler This making-of is intended for intermediate users. Beginners are welcome to read this as well of course, but don’t expect detailed descriptions of how I’ve modelled this special head part or that leg or something. There are about 50 pictures showing the process. I’m focussing mainly on the creation...

Oct 4, 2006

“Rock ‘n’ Roll” by Rodrigue Pralier My Name is Rodrigue Pralier, I currently work for Electronic Arts Montreal. I will show you how I did my Rock n Roll image. For my last personal project I wanted to do an old rock and roll character. I will show you all the different steps, from modeling the pieces in Zbrush to the final retouching in...

Sep 25, 2006

“Creature” by Cristian Patrasciuc The Concept The idea for this project came mainly because of the lack in organic model of my portfolio. After making many other things I decided to try this type of projects too. As I have not modeled an organic thing before, I decided to start with a creature. It should give the modeler a bit of freedom, in...

Sep 23, 2006

“Quad bike ” by Ali Ismail Introduction This will be a brief explanation about making of the quad bike, I like quads but you won’t exactly see me riding one (too scary for me 😉 ) anyway it was needed for a small project for a presentation of a quad and motorcycles racing track, it needed to be animated as well. Reference As usually if you needed any...