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...

Feb 18, 2006

“Bump masking The Orc” by Glen Southern I thought that the head study I created for the `Smokin? Orc` image was lacking in features so I decided to work on some bump effects. The original image had a material with a lot of colour-bump which allowed light areas of the texture map appear raised when rendered. For the next stage I wanted to actually...

Feb 18, 2006

“Character walkthrough – part 2 ” by Julian Johnson-Mortimer Now I’ve started tweaking the nose using my reference pictures, there’s enough points their already to achieve a good nose but I will add detail to it later once I’m happy with the shape. Getting there. I’ve used the split polygon tool here, I’m going to...

Feb 17, 2006

“Character walkthrough – part 1 ” by Julian Johnson-Mortimer Hello there, Welcome to my tutorial. This one I will be sort of a guide how I go about modeling a head, I’m not sure if I will be covering anything new seeing as theirs all ready so many great modeling tutorials out their. But I will just go though how I will be creating a new...

Feb 4, 2006

“Young Rodeo” by Rishikesh Nandlaskar This concept of a young boy riding a huge bull came to me while scribbling on my sketch book for ideas.Then I created a rough story around the image. Rodeo means “The Real Cowboy”It’s a story of a boy whose passion was to ride on bulls back like his father.I have tried to capture a spectacular...

Jan 24, 2006

“Head modelling ” by Glen Southern INTRODUCTION TO ZBRUSH To me, Pixologics Zbrush lives in a world somewhere between 2D and 3D never really knowing which camp to lie in. With it I can create 3D meshes that can be textured and have native materials added to them. Zbrush uses a technology called `Pixols` that sees each pixel as a 3D image that...