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...

Nov 26, 2006

“Illumination tutorial” by Mario Malagrino Image D 3Dtutorials.sk recommendation: To maximise the realism of your 3D rendering and models we recommend to use high quality photo references from the #1 texture website www.environment-textures.com Dear Architects and interior designers, this is one of my tutorials that I wrote for my students of the...

Nov 20, 2006

“Caustic effects ” by Mario Malagrino Caustics are really great light effects that you can observe in liquids, glass objects and gems. We are able to simulate this effect with 3D Studio Max perfectly. This tutorial about Caustics will work only if you enable “Mental Ray” ! (This tutorial was made by the Florence Design...

Nov 13, 2006

“How to work with vfb” by George Andriiciuc How to work with V-Ray Frame buffer when you think the scene is too dark. If you want to keep the lighting like in the real world and you use only one light (V-Ray sun), sometimes you see that the image that you get is a bit dark. Maybe you do not want to encrease the GI environment level to more than 1.6...

Oct 8, 2006

“Upside down ” by Mathias Koehler This making-of is intended for intermediate users. Beginners are welcome to read this as well of course, but don’t expect detailed descriptions of how I’ve modelled this special head part or that leg or something. There are about 50 pictures showing the process. I’m focussing mainly on the creation...

Oct 4, 2006

“Rock ‘n’ Roll” by Rodrigue Pralier My Name is Rodrigue Pralier, I currently work for Electronic Arts Montreal. I will show you how I did my Rock n Roll image. For my last personal project I wanted to do an old rock and roll character. I will show you all the different steps, from modeling the pieces in Zbrush to the final retouching in...