Dec 8, 2005

“How to compose shadows provided by a HDRI lighting” by Gerardo Estrada This tutorial assumes you have acquired your light-probe in location and you have already made your HDR map. One thing we need to keep in mind when we are integrating CG elements with live action plates is that a shadow provided by a HDRI lighting is not a shadow properly, is a...

Dec 7, 2005

“Queen ” by Lorenzo di Mauro A few month ago, Kevin Eastman, owner and publisher of Heavy Metal Magazine, asked me to do some sketches for a cover. Obviously I was so honored and thrilled for this! Many ideas were milling around in my mind and I was looking for enough image reference. Among the sketches I submitted to him, he chose the one that...

Nov 6, 2005

“Gradient tutorial” by Gerardo Estrada Several people have asked me about the technique to make in LW this image created originally by Twilight in VRay. The render time at 640 x 480 are 7min 46 seg and at 800 x 600 are 9min 42 seg (P IV 2Ghz) 3Dtutorials.sk recommendation: To maximise the realism of your 3D rendering we recommend to use high quality...

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....

Aug 28, 2005

PSYCHO MOM project overview by Patrasciuc Cristian – PART 2TexturingLet’s pass to the next step (the most important of this project). First I set up the UV’s (only planar, box or cylindrical). This is like a sketch, because after I’ll paint the textures the UV’s will be adjusted in order to give the best result. Here is a screen...