May 23, 2009

"Sunbathing" by Massimo Righi 3Dtutorials.sk recommendation: To maximise the realism of your 3D rendering we recommend using high quality animal photo references from the #1 texture website www.3D.sk Introduction Photography has always inspired me, especially shots of nature and wildlife from the National Geographic magazines. I decided to use the...

May 23, 2009

"Making of Male Green Frog" by Massimo Righi Introduction Hi, my name is Massimo Righi and I am freelance CG artist from Italy. What I’m going to do, is to try and show you the main steps of how I’ve made my "Male Green Frog" image. I’ve used Maya 8 for modelling, MentalRay for rendering and Photoshop for the textures. The...

May 23, 2009

"Making of Trapped" by Massimo Righi Introduction What I would like to do is to pick the animals and their characteristics that more fascinate me. During a recent travel I have taken a photo at the “Bird Park” of Kuala Lumpur. Immediately I’ve been captured by the expression of this parrot….One strange mixture of drama, given...

May 23, 2009

"Making of Mouses" by Michael Little 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 This is a modeling tutorial using the Electric Image Modeler or EIM. Since not even many people in the 3D community are familiar with...

Mar 25, 2009

"How to view normal maps within Mudbox 2009" by Ashraf Aiad There have been some great improvements in Mudbox 2009 SP1.  One new feature is the ability to view normal maps on top of your low poly mesh.  This will confirm that the map was extracted correctly before exporting to your game engine or other 3D application. 1.   Start by...

Feb 28, 2009

"Invisible Tutorial " by Jason Godbey 3Dtutorials.sk recommendation: To maximise the realism of your models and textures we recommend using high quality photo textures from the #1 texture website www.environment-textures.com In this tutorial I’ll explain how I did the modeling, texturing, lighting, rendering, and post-work for the image...