Jun 17, 2006

“Yellow house – part 3.” by Huseyin Karaaslan Hello friends. Based on my work ´The yellow house´, I have tried to sum up how it was created. It consists of 3 parts: modelling, texturing and render. In the third part called ‘render’, we shall use the ‘V-ray’ render motor. 1- Placing the lights 3Dtutorials.sk...

Jun 17, 2006

  “Smoothing groups ” by Wojtek “Buddy” Starak In this article I want to talk a little about smoothing. If few polygons (quads, tris, no matter) share same smoothing group and they are next to each other they’ll be smoothed, if two polygons have different smoothing groups there will be a easy to notice “seam” through their edge....

Jun 16, 2006

  “Female anatomy study” by Marek Denko At first I built a mid-poly model of a woman in the basic position, using some references in order to keep the proportions of her body parts. Good references you can find at www.female-anatomy-for-artist.com I used poly modeling from one plane. Figures bellow show some model details like the ear and the...

Jun 15, 2006

  “Details in materials ” by Montree T. I have shown step by step how to light an interior scene in my tutorials. This chapter will go into the details about materials to enhance them to create a more realistic scene.1. create the ambient light of the area by placing omni lights (ambient only) in the middle of the room as the main ambient...

Jun 13, 2006

“The last knight ” by Carsten Holtmann Hi and welcome to my first tutorial ever. My name is Carsten Holtmann and i´d like to show you a few things about my latest work “The last Knight “. The first step is by far the most important one: Reference! As i choose to build a fantasy medieval knight, i had to find some good reference for armors, swords...

Jun 11, 2006

“Yellow house – part 2.” by Huseyin Karaaslan Hello friends. Based on my work ´The yellow house´, I have tried to sum up how it was created. It consists of 3 parts: modelling, texturing and render. The second part is about texturing. 1) Preparing the leaf material Let us texture the ´plane´ with this texturing and by using ´opacity map´ let us...

Jun 10, 2006

“Creating dirty textures ” by Wojtek “Buddy” Starak Hi! This is my second tutorial, this time I will talk a little about making textures dirty, more intresting, atmospheric etc. Here’s the original wall texture which I wanted to turn into something in style of Silent Hill series. Ofcourse, as always I picked up a reference from...

Jun 10, 2006

  “Boolean: Rubber stamp” by Montree T. This technique helps to save time spent on modeling and is suitable for models which do not have too much detail. 1. Create a multi-subobject material which material ID 1 = wall and material ID 2 = window. You can use an opacity map or blend material for this material. 2. Draw a box following the window...