Jan 2, 2007

“Landscape” by Dan LuVisi In this tutorial, I will teach you how to paint a landscape, mostly a cloud-scape, but put into a grassy field. I’ll teach you a quick and easy way to lay out your clouds, a new way of blending, and getting your light beams in them. Then I will teach you how to paint some quick mountains, lighting and so forth. So let’s...

Dec 19, 2006

“MAX 101 – part 11” by Eric Maslowski In this tutorial we’ll take a look at boolean operations. It won’t cover the new ProBooleans extension for Max8 Subscribers but will go over the boolean options available from Max8 release and back. 3Dtutorials.sk recommendation: To maximise the realism of your 3D rendering we recommend to use...

Dec 16, 2006

“Image progression” by Dave Seeley where? Here’s a look around my studio   who? This piece is called “Image Junkie”. It’s a self portrait based on an artificial intelligence robot in a novel by William Gibson. His robot, in orbit, collected bits of information from electronic transmissions, and sifted through them as a way to understand...

Dec 15, 2006

“MAX 101 – part 10 ” by Eric Maslowski This tutorial walks you through the use of the sweep modifier for extruding shapes along an arbitrary path. It also introduces you to Loft objects which give you the most control over creating complex shapes from splines (at least out of: Extrude, Bevel, Lathe, Sweep). 3Dtutorials.sk recommendation: To...

Dec 7, 2006

“Wounded ork ” by Dorian Bushi As this is a making of article, I’m not gona cover every step of the creation process of this image. I assume you have some basic knowledge in 3D in general, and basic to intermediate level for all the 3ds max users. Different from my past creations, where I prepare a concept sketch prior to the cg work, I jumped...

Dec 6, 2006

“Virtual beer ” by Paco Morales There is more about building a convincing beer than just revolving a spline. It is the small details that bring credibility to your renders, and this tutorial aims to give you a step by step guide to do just that. While specific to 3dstudio max, most of the techniques can be applied to most other 3d apps. First, we do...

Dec 3, 2006

“Speedpainting” by Levente Peterffy Allright! …speedpainting First of all this is a personal type of progress so I am not discribing a generel way of working on Speedpaints. I am gonna try to keep the descriptionlevel on a fairly good level. K, let’s get started. 3Dtutorials.sk recommendation: For inspiration we recommend to use high...

Dec 2, 2006

“MAX 101 – part 9 ” by Eric Maslowski This tutorial walks the user through creating 3D objects using the shapes by applying the “Extrude” and “Bevel” class of modifiers. It will also demonstrate the power of compound shapes and how they respond to extrusion and bevels. 3Dtutorials.sk recommendation: To maximise the...