Animation

Making of Ella

2011-04-30T20:50:00.000-07:00

"Making of Ella" by Ziv Qual In this tutorial the author will cover some of the interesting steps of this project. He also covers modeling and rigging in general, texturing, working with complex hairs, rendering and compositing.

Making of Ella

Making of Rollerblades

2011-04-30T20:44:00.000-07:00

"Making of Rollerblades" by Alvaro Martinez

Modeling a Coca-Cola bottle

2011-04-30T20:35:00.000-07:00

This tutorial is intended to show you how to make a Coca-Cola bottle using Maya

Modeling a Coca-Cola bottle

Making a weaved pattern

2011-04-30T20:26:00.000-07:00

This tutorial will teach you, how to create realistic looking model of weaved pattern (wattle) in 3D Max.

Making a weaved pattern

Making of CLEP

2011-04-30T20:22:00.000-07:00

Here the author explains some techniques that he has used to create this image.

Making of CLEP

House on a Ravine: Texturing, Lighting and Rendering tutorial

2010-10-30T00:57:00.000-07:00

House on a Ravine: Texturing, Lighting and Rendering tutorial

Making of Ford GT-40

2010-10-30T00:49:00.000-07:00

Building a car from the first to last bolt, Luis Nieves explains the process of creating his "Ford GT-40 in Vegas" image. Maya, mental ray and After Effects are all used. (source 3dtotal.com)

Making of Ford GT-40

Making of DAWN,The Dinotaur

2010-03-17T11:18:00.001-07:00

Making of DAWN,The Dinotaur

Clock tutorial by Oellas

2009-08-11T23:17:00.000-07:00

In this tutorial the author will show us a few tips to create a clock in 3d max and render it with Fryrender. Then he will show us how to apply fry materials and how to make the light setup. Finally, he will show us how to work with the tonemapping and layer blending controls.

Clock tutorial by Oellas

The Making of Rage over Babylon

2009-08-11T23:10:00.000-07:00

This tutorial will covers the major points of producing this image, starting with the planning and covering the modeling, texturing, rendering, lighting and compossiting.

The Making of Rage over Babylon

Making of Paragalis

2009-08-11T22:50:00.000-07:00

This tutorial will cover the workflow for 3d modeling, 3d sculpting, retopo / optimizing, UV’s, normal map generation, light map generation, and texturing.

The Creature Summary: Paragalis is literally a walking parasite that’s approximately the size of a large dog from tentacle tip to tale. The creature is an ambush predator who catches its prey with a tongue that can extend to twice the size of its body. Paragalis’s tentacle like mouth contains rows of teeth for gripping its prey, with a barb at the end its tongue that injects toxic venom! Once the prey has been caught its then quickly digested with its remains excreted from the creatures back hump in a gassy form.

The Specs: Lowpoly model / 7,000 triangles, Textures / 2024x2024 / diffuse, spec, normal
Tools: 3ds max 8 / 9, Photoshop, Mudbox, Zbrush 3.1, Crazybump, Polyboost

Making of Paragalis

Making of Autobot, Transformers

2008-10-10T20:20:00.000-07:00

This article shows you the process of creating an Autobot 3d model.
Making of Autobot, Transformers

Making of "The Hunter"

2008-10-10T20:13:00.000-07:00

Great ideas of modeling a fantasy 3d character model including modeling, texturing, lighting and rendering as well as other information related to create a great looking character.

Making of "The Hunter"

American Alligator 3D Modeling

2008-10-10T20:09:00.000-07:00

In this article the author takes us through his workflow of creating this alligator model in maya.

American Alligator 3D Modeling

Making of the Auditorium with 3dsmax

2008-10-10T19:57:00.000-07:00

A complete workflow of Creating an Auditorium in 3ds max.

Making of the Auditorium with 3dsmax

Street Cop Workflow - 3D Character Modeling

2008-10-10T19:24:00.000-07:00

This tutorial shows the workflow of making a street cop character 3d model with Maya and Mudbox.It includes subjects such as modeling, texturing and rendering.

Street Cop Workflow - 3D Character Modeling

Making of Trapped

2008-07-23T23:08:00.000-07:00

Author: Massimo Righi

Software: Autodesk Maya

Author Website: http://www.massimorighi.com/

In this the author explain the process of texturing, lightining and rendering the scence in maya using mental ray.

Making of Trapped

Making a Water Fountain in 3dsmax

2008-07-23T23:03:00.000-07:00

Software: 3dsmax

Author: Arch Ronel K. Pabico

This is a complete workflow in creating a water fountain using the 3ds Max Particle System

Making a Water Fountain in 3dsmax

Modeling Hailfire Droid

2008-07-23T22:49:00.000-07:00

This is a Free Maya video tutorial by cgwhat on how to model a Star Wars Hailfire Droid really cool from start to end but free, tutorial is 4H 15M long so if intermittent user in Maya you should be able to follow along and end up with a cool model.

Click to Download the Tutorial

Making of Tiger Zoo

2008-07-23T22:09:00.000-07:00

Author: Massimo Righi

Software: Autodesk Maya

Author Website: http://www.massimorighi.com/

In this the author explains the indepth process from modeling the tiger to the final rendering with Mental ray.

Making of Tiger Zoo

Creating optimized caustics in Maya Mray

2008-07-06T10:32:00.000-07:00

This tutorial from http://www.truecg.com/ you’ll learn how to make fast and optimized caustics effect with maya and mental Ray

Optimized Caustics in Maya Mental Ray

Maya Blendshapes Tutorial

2007-12-28T11:22:00.001-08:00

Maya Blendshapes Tutorial
Software: Autodesk Maya
Author: shandaman
URL:http://www.youtube.com/shandaman
IntroductionIn this tutorial we teach you how to create blendshapes in maya

Lava shader effect

2007-12-28T11:18:00.000-08:00

Here the author will explain how to make a shader for lava effects using Maya's material editor, called Hypershade. For this tutorial the author recommends basic knowledge about connecting material nodes inside Hypershade.

Lava shader effect

The Making of the Giant

2007-12-28T11:06:00.000-08:00

This article will take you through the various stages that are used to create Keith Thompson's Giant character, from initial setup and block-in all the way through to final renders in Unreal3 engine.

The Making of the Giant

Making of the Jungle

2007-12-28T10:58:00.000-08:00

The author describes the techniques that were used in creating the jungle scene in 3ds Max 9.

Making of the Jungle