Jan 4, 2007

“MAX 101 – part 12 ” by Eric Maslowski In this tutorial we take a look at several options for rendering your scene to an image or animation. There will be additional tutorials which go into the specifics of the scanline, mental ray, and brazil renders. 3Dtutorials.sk recommendation: To maximise the realism of your 3D rendering we recommend to...

Dec 7, 2006

“Wounded ork ” by Dorian Bushi As this is a making of article, I’m not gona cover every step of the creation process of this image. I assume you have some basic knowledge in 3D in general, and basic to intermediate level for all the 3ds max users. Different from my past creations, where I prepare a concept sketch prior to the cg work, I jumped...

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 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 28, 2006

“Terrain tutorial” by Joel Carlo 1. Open Photoshop and start a new document at 1500 x 1500 pixels. Pick a light gray color to fill your background. 2. Click on the filter drop down and choose Render – Clouds. 3. Now choose Render – Difference Clouds. Repeat this step as many times as you like until you get something comparable to the...

Oct 21, 2006

“Shelby Mustang GT500 wheel” by Onno van Braam I was browsing Dieselstation.com the other day to look for some reference photo’s of silver cars (I am working on a project for a car manufacturer at the moment), when I came upon the following photo of a wheel of a Shelby Mustang GT500, the 2005 GT500 that is, not the ’67 one. I liked this...