Aug 10, 2006

“Behind the Portrait of  Dorian Grey” by Marek Denko Inspiration I had a bad time when I could not sleep because of some problems and so I tried to think of something else and I came up with this : ) I had no inspiration for my characteres, no concepts or sketches. These creatures were created piece by piece durign few weeks. References of a...

Aug 10, 2006

” Render To Texture – Baking Textures” by Wojtek “Buddy” Starak I do suggest to read my UVW map tutorial first 🙂 I usually used Render To Texture to bake nice skylight shadows on my model, but from some time I also using it when texturing (thanks Robert Briscoe). When my mesh is done I uv certain parts of it separatly, in most cases each...

Aug 6, 2006

“Car mapping” by Onno van Braam In this tutorial I’ll try to give an impression of how I apply textures to my cars. It’s very simple once you get it, really.As subject I’ll use my latest car, the Citroen C3 ‘Custom’. I could have picked any car, in fact I might as well have chosen a box, as long as the object you use...

Aug 5, 2006

“The light of hope in the darknes” by Deng Jiansi This is my first tutorial and I hope that will be helpful. Idea: I want to create a child who was very poor and worried about future. He was in thinking struggle between the hope and despair. 1. Modeling THE HEAD The way I used plane modeling to make it. First I create a plane then I change the plane...

Jul 30, 2006

  “Organic modeling – part 4 ” by Eric Maslowski This is a two-part tutorial which exploits a little known capability of Max to create a head. I personally find this technique easier than box modeling for heads since your topology and edge flow are there from the beginning. With box modeling, there’s a lot of division, connecting,...

Jul 30, 2006

“Organic modeling – part 3 ” by Eric Maslowski This tutorial will take you through the process of setting up reference plates for precision modeling. 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 third part...