Sep 5, 2005

STEP BY STEP NOSE BOX MODELING by JY Hello friends! 🙂 We are going to model nose with use of box modeling technique in 3D studio Max 7. This is very detailed tutorial so in case you are just starting with box modeling or 3d MAX you have found the right place! 🙂 Let’s start with reference. It’s a always a good idea to have some reference before you...

Sep 1, 2005

VISUAL PERCEPTION AND AESTHETIC by Steven Stahlberg Introduction We perceive some things as “beautiful”, and other things as “ugly”. Research shows most of this is universal. If we know why we react and what the factors are, it might help us make stronger more successful images (whether we’re going for ‘beauty’ or...

Sep 1, 2005

MODELING A FOOT IN MAYA by Steven Stahlberg I won’t explain every detail in the beginning, you can get to the state in the next image several different ways. For example like this: polygonal box modeling. (This isn’t meant to be a step-by-step cloning; it’s more of a general workflow thing.) This is the model I started with for this session...

Aug 28, 2005

PSYCHO MOM project overview by Patrasciuc Cristian – PART 2TexturingLet’s pass to the next step (the most important of this project). First I set up the UV’s (only planar, box or cylindrical). This is like a sketch, because after I’ll paint the textures the UV’s will be adjusted in order to give the best result. Here is a screen...

Aug 28, 2005

PSYCHO MOM project overview by Patrasciuc Cristian – PART 1Introduction – The Concept After making a few “clean” projects, like cars or beautiful living-rooms, I’ve decided to make a scene where I can test my texturing ability and, maybe, improve it. So I chose to make a dirty scene. As there are a lot of scenes with dirty walls or...

Aug 28, 2005

HUMAN SKIN SHADING by Steven Stahlberg This could be the single biggest hurdle in realistic cg since Gouraud shading…  :)as for me, I’ve been wrestling with this since -95.  Like many others, I’ve been extremely frustrated by it, mainly cause until about -00 very few knew much about it, and no one could answer my questions.  So -99 I found my...

Aug 24, 2005

JEALOUSY STEP-BY-STEP by Steven Stahlberg Overview The idea to this painting came when I sat down with my notebook in my sofa one evening, and tried to come up with something that was both upclose and personal, yet touched on larger issues, such as affairs of state. Preferrably involving only two people, because I find that can often be more intense.A royal...