Sep 17, 2008

“Making of Fruit Tarts ” by Hau Ming (Jamie) Li Hello, my name is Hau Ming (Jamie) Li, the female artist who created the Cheese Platter tutorial earlier. This will be my second tutorial on food using Maya, Photoshop and rendered with Mental Ray. I will try to explain the process from photo concept to lighting the scene using Final Gather....

Aug 6, 2008

“Multi Displacement setup” by Ashraf Aiad Multi displacement method can be very handy when setting up various displacement files for your geometry. It will enable you a higher detailed displacement for your render. Maya When preparing geometry for export to mudbox, it would be wise to layout the UVs on the positive direction of the U. Note: when...

Aug 6, 2008

“Generating a realistic surface with Terragen and Maya” by Berthold Grünhagen Are you searching for a method to generate a realistic surface or landscape maybe for a background in your Maya scene? Of course you can generate an object-file using 3DEM (Digital Elevation Model) files with millions of polygons. I will introduce you to a more simple way....

May 26, 2008

“Cheese Platter ” by Hau Ming (Jamie) Li 3Dtutorials.sk recommendation: To maximise the realism of your 3D models we recommend using high quality photo references from the #1 texture website www.environment-textures.com Hi, my name is Hau Ming (Jamie) Li and this will be my first tutorial so I will try to explain how I did this Cheese Platter the...

May 26, 2008

“Dome Based Lighting ” by Aziz Khan To see the Dome Based Lighting tutorial please click on the thumbnail below. (c) Aziz Khan, www.aziz3d.esmartdesign.com