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Art noveau room – texturing and lighting

Art noveau room – texturing and lighting

Mar 18, 2007

“Art Nouveau room – texturing and lighting” by Crtomir Just 1. Texturing Texturing played a huge part in making this image. I changed my mind a few times during texturing and replaced some of the textures I didn’t like, so this part took me, I believe, more than half of all the work. The textures are mainly based on photo-reference,...

Figure painting workshop

Figure painting workshop

Mar 17, 2007

“Figure painting workshop” by Joel Carlo Painting a figure from life or from a photo can be a daunting task. There is a slew of information to process such as evaluating the figure’s size, form, value, contrast, gesture, color… the list can be pretty long. And while each of these aspects takes time and patience to master, it is only when...

Image texture map

Image texture map

Mar 11, 2007

“Image texture map” by Dave Jarvis This tutorial shows how to apply a texture map to an object. First, some definitions: Legend Meaning RMB Click the Right Mouse Button. LMB Click the Left Mouse Button. SHFT Hold down the Shift key. CTRL Hold down the Control key. ALT Hold down the Alt key. Start Up After starting Blender, part of the screen should...

Objects spreading methods

Objects spreading methods

Mar 10, 2007

“Object spreading methods” by Nicolas d’Haussy Contrary to other classic 3d package, Maya has not dedicated tools to spread objects and it is often asked how to indeed. Placing each objects would be stupid and exhausting. In this article, I demonstrate five methods from my own experience/analysis and some talking boards threads. But their may...

Studio lighting in Vray tutorial

Studio lighting in Vray tutorial

Mar 10, 2007

“Studio lighting in Vray ” by Géza Kádas OVERVIEW In this tutorial i will tell you the method of studio lighting.For the rendering i used Vray 1.5rc3, the latest version of the program.This famous chair called “Corbusier” was modeled in 3ds max 9.With the knowledge of this tutorial you will be able to present your models in a more...

Caustics in MentalRay tutorial

Caustics in MentalRay tutorial

Feb 27, 2007

“Caustics in MentalRay” by Toni Bratincevic Before we start with tutorial please download the scenes that we will use in our training. DOWNLOAD THE SCENES INTRODUCTION So we meet again (for those who passed through my GI tutorial 😉 ). This time we will learn how to set the caustic effect in mentalray for maya. As you already know, the calculation of...

Max 101 – part 21.

Max 101 – part 21.

Feb 27, 2007

“MAX 101 – part 21 ” by Eric Maslowski   This tutorial goes over the basics of camera creation and configuration in Max. It also covers the multi-pass Depth-of-Field effect. 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...

Max 101 – part 20.

Max 101 – part 20.

Feb 27, 2007

“MAX 101 – part 20 ” by Eric Maslowski   In the real world light bounces off objects transferring some of it’s energy to the surfaces it hits. This tutorial will show you how to simulate real-world lighting in your scene using radiosity. 3Dtutorials.sk recommendation: To maximise the realism of your 3D rendering we recommend to use...