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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Feb 26, 2007

“Pilgrim” by Kuschelirmel Introduction: I have been asked how I blended all those pictures together – also, most people were not able to determine just how many different pictures were used… That tells me I did something right and in this little “guide” (for lack of a better word) I will try to show you which pictures I used and I may...

Feb 26, 2007

“Apophysis for Beginners – Part 1” by Stacy Reed This tutorial will walk you through some of the basics of the Open Source fractal software, http://www.apophysis.org/ . This is designed especially for beginners. A lot of new Apophysis users ask me to help them configure their settings and options within the program and in the past I have...

Feb 22, 2007

“MAX 101 – part 19” by Eric Maslowski   In this tutorial we will take a quick look at some of the shadow options 3D Studio Max offers and talk about the pros/cons for the different options. 3Dtutorials.sk recommendation: To maximise the realism of your 3D rendering we recommend to use high quality photo textures from the #1 texture...