Nov 1, 2005

“WATERDROP” by Gerardo Estrada Introduction This tutorial assumes you have the basic knowledge of the software you are working with. It’s meant to be a walkthrough of one technique to recreate the effect of a drop falling into a water tank, rather than a detailed step-by-step tutorial. Modeling The scene consists of 2 objects: 1. The drop 2....

Sep 15, 2005

PAINTING CLOUDS by Steven Stahlberg I used Photoshop, but any paint program should work.  (Left, cropped from a larger image.)  I start with a ramp like the one on the right; be careful not to use full saturation here.  Up to your preference, if you want to make the background a little more purple. Start painting with max saturation and max value a...

Sep 5, 2005

STEP BY STEP NOSE BOX MODELING by JY Hello friends! 🙂 We are going to model nose with use of box modeling technique in 3D studio Max 7. This is very detailed tutorial so in case you are just starting with box modeling or 3d MAX you have found the right place! 🙂 Let’s start with reference. It’s a always a good idea to have some reference before you...

Sep 1, 2005

VISUAL PERCEPTION AND AESTHETIC by Steven Stahlberg Introduction We perceive some things as “beautiful”, and other things as “ugly”. Research shows most of this is universal. If we know why we react and what the factors are, it might help us make stronger more successful images (whether we’re going for ‘beauty’ or...

Sep 1, 2005

MODELING A FOOT IN MAYA by Steven Stahlberg I won’t explain every detail in the beginning, you can get to the state in the next image several different ways. For example like this: polygonal box modeling. (This isn’t meant to be a step-by-step cloning; it’s more of a general workflow thing.) This is the model I started with for this session...