May 10, 2006

“Yuka” by Lukasz Szeflinski Introduction After receiving some positive feedback to my last work “yuka” I decided to write a detailed tutorial about cre ating process. In this tutorial I will use real size images I was working with on so you can clearly see all the details. My main goal was to create a painting which was really detailed. I knew that...

May 3, 2006

  “Egwene’s Face and Lighting ” by John Doe Introduction Hello! The purpose of this simple tutorial is to enable users to make full use of the Egwene (Ehg-Wee-N) face, hopefully to show her fairest side. Overall, it is merely some steps to improve the lighting of the scene, and is so simple that everyone should be able to follow.However,...

May 2, 2006

“Creating game character – part 4 ” by Les Padrew Texturing the Character Most video games combine the textures of a character into a single texture map, sometimes called a blanket or pelt.For your pirate girl,you will create a single texture map that measures 512×512 pixels. Before you even start painting, however, you will need to set up the...

Apr 28, 2006

“Creating game character – part 3” by Les Padrew Starting the Model A good way to create models in 3ds Max is to start with a primitive object and build by modifying the object. You will start this model with just one primitive object,a box.This is only one of many approaches for building models.There are almost as man y ways to build a model...

Apr 28, 2006

“Grass” by Radoslav Zilinsky I just want to show you the way to make quite nice random looking grass.I hope that it will be usefull to you. Firstly I made one plane(ground), then I scattered another one(grass object – 4polys) over the ground with scatter tool. Which I set 8000 duplicates. It is enough for this situation, but the number of...

Apr 24, 2006

“Texturing Michael 2 ” by Glen Southern This tutorial uses a Mesh figure called Michael 2 from DAZ 3D. It is more commonly associated with Curious labs Poser than with ZBrush. By the end of this tutorial you will be able to export Michael from Poser, import him into ZBrush, use TextureMaster to create a unique high resolution TextureMap, export the...

Apr 23, 2006

“Beanpod blooming ” by Wang Xiaoyu Hello, everyone, My name is Wang Xiaoyu. I’m a student in China, I’m glad to communicate with you about my new work “Beenpod Blooming” : ) MAKING POSE: In China there’s an ancient poetry, woman looks more pretty when she looks back giving a smile.So I chose this pose for this still.. And I imaged...

Apr 21, 2006

“It comes time of death” by Radoslav Zilinsky Hi, my name is Radoslav Zilinsky and my Internet nickname is radoxist. In this article, I would like to present to you the process of making my picture “It comes a time of death”. I’m going to tell you how I proceeded with the creation, modelling, texturing and composition. I will also...