Aug 16, 2006

“Art Nouveau room – modeling” by Crtomir Just Introduction: This scene started of as an opposition to millions of clean interior renders you see on the internet everyday. Not that those renders aren’t good (many of them are superb), I just wanted to make something different, something that has a nice warm feel to it, something that has...

Aug 15, 2006

“Using Character Studio – The Basics” by Nathan Fearon Introduction: After spending weeks teaching myself Character Studio, I’ve decided to make a tutorial on it in the hope that others won’t need to suffer the same frustration. I’ll try to make each step as simple and straight forward as possible — basic knowledge of 3D Studio Max is...

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 10, 2006

“Leg rig” by Michael Futcher After a lot of experimentation I came up with this rather good leg rig, so I thought I’d share it with you. This tutorial assumes you know the basic Blender interface, but little else. This a good tutorial to learn about bones and armatures. If you’re an experienced Blenderer, this is still a good foot-rig:...

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

“Lighting and Shadow basics – part 2 ” by Montree T. Area Lights and Area Shadows Another thing that a new user should not ignore is the beauty of area light. Area lights cause specular scattering on objects and blend with its diffuse area, creating a very soft look with beautiful soft shadows. The bigger the light sources is, the softer its...