Mar 29, 2006

“Making-of-Furniturecluster” by Mathias Koehler 1. Introduction I got the idea for this image, when i had modelled some furniture for architectural vizualisation renderings and then thought about throwing everything together. I carefully moved and rotated the furniture to build a large cluster. This was actually the hardest part. I’ve then...

Mar 7, 2006

“Superlópez” by Enrique Gato about this tutorial I didn’t want this tutorial to have direct relation with the tools I used to create the animation short. My idea is to show you all the steps followed to make the animation and make you understand that no matters the software you want to use (Max, Softimage, Maya…), because now adays most...

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 22, 2006

“Light on a female face ” by Glen Southern SETTING THE SCENE Firstly load the head model into your document and choose/make a material that has little specularity and a little colour bump. Colour it all over with a dark skin or bone colour. (fig.1) Eyeball in ZTool format 107K 3Dtutorials.sk recommendation: To maximise the realism of your 3D...

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

“Building a character with polyspheres” by Glen Southern 1. POLYSPHERES This image was created in the latest version of ZBrush and uses the all new Polymesh feature. As with most of the newer features in ZBrush Pixologic provide you with an extensive set of ZScripts to help you understand the basics. Polyspheres is no exception. The ZScript is the...