Dec 21, 2005

Modeling of “Kreacher” by Julian Johnson – Mortimer Hello there. Welcome to my character walk through I’m not sure if you can call this a tutorial as I will just be showing different stages in the building of a character called Kreacher Kreacher is a house elf character taken from the harry potter books But first and what I will be...

Dec 17, 2005

“Wolverine Face ” by Rishikesh Nandlaskar Hi, My name is Rishikesh and I am working as a 3d modeler for r a d game development company, in India. I am working on 3d for almost a year and a half after completing my diploma in Commercial arts. A self taught 3dartist, who learned 3d from books, website tutorials and good friends/colleagues with whom I...

Dec 16, 2005

“Afro Head Modeling ” by Jiri Adamec Hi! My name is Jiri Adamec and I want show you how I created Afro head and give you the inspiration to create resembling or better pictures. MODELING: Before one year I saw tutorial in the head at http://www.secondreality.ch/. And my style of the modeling isn´t so different from it. One of the basic rules is:...

Dec 16, 2005

“Human Skin – the Mental Ray Subsurface Scattering Fast Skin shader” by Philippe Le Miere Subsurface scattering is light passing through and diffusing within a thin translucent material. Human skin is an example of such a material as it is made up of many thin translucent layers. A Subsurface Scattering material is ideal for re-creating skin...

Dec 12, 2005

“Modeling A Female Head ” by Peter Ratner Over the years I?ve written many human modeling tutorials for my books 3-D Human Modeling and Animation, 1 st and 2 nd Editions, Mastering 3D Animation, 1 st and 2 nd Editions and various magazine articles as well as online tutorials. As a full-time Professor I?ve taught human modeling at James Madison...

Dec 10, 2005

“Cow” by Matt Dixon “This image was painted in Adobe Photoshop. I’m often asked about my brushes and painting technique; I hope the steps below go some way to explain how I approach a painting. I use my own custom brushes, but there’s nothing particularly unusual or clever about them – most of the painting is done with...

Dec 8, 2005

“How to compose shadows provided by a HDRI lighting” by Gerardo Estrada This tutorial assumes you have acquired your light-probe in location and you have already made your HDR map. One thing we need to keep in mind when we are integrating CG elements with live action plates is that a shadow provided by a HDRI lighting is not a shadow properly, is a...

Dec 7, 2005

“Queen ” by Lorenzo di Mauro A few month ago, Kevin Eastman, owner and publisher of Heavy Metal Magazine, asked me to do some sketches for a cover. Obviously I was so honored and thrilled for this! Many ideas were milling around in my mind and I was looking for enough image reference. Among the sketches I submitted to him, he chose the one that...