Nov 3, 2006

“Modeling for topology” by Jason Welsh   This tutorial shows you another easy way of modeling in Zbrush. 3Dtutorials.sk recommendation: To maximise the realism of your 3D characters we recommend to use high quality human photo references from the #1 texture website www.3D.sk To see the nice tut for beginners click on the thumbnail below. To...

Oct 30, 2006

“Female face ” by Dan LuVisi Introduction: Welcome back, in this tutorial we’re going to go through the stages of painting a female face. I’ll teach you my method for some quick, but stylish hair strokes, eyes, skin complexion, lips, and a quick outfit to fit the female. For this one, I just used Photoshop CS 2. Alright, lets move on!...

Oct 28, 2006

“Realistis eye modeling ” by Jeremy Ringard In this tutorial, you will learn how to quickly model realistic eyes which topology is easily usable as a base for complete photorealistic head modeling . First, I advice you to use good reference images in order to be aware of the human proportions during your modeling. For this tutorial, i used 3D.SK...

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 25, 2006

J “Modeling A Salsa Dress in Hexagon for Poser” by John D. Johnson Welcome to this beginners guide to modeling with Hexagon from Daz™.  I will be showing you how to use many of this programs tools to make a dress model for a Poser™ figure. If you have any questions or suggestions, please feel free to email me. We need a mannequin to build our...

Oct 24, 2006

“CHARACTERS USING PROPS in CAT2.5” by Tom Mooney This simple demonstration shows how to use Link Controllers and Helpers to make a convenient process which allows objects to follow the CAT bones and for IK controlled CAT bones to follow objects. It is a bit more complex than using direct links because it deals with cases where you want the objects...

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...

Oct 11, 2006

“Making of the fur ” by Dan LuVisi Step 1: Let’s begin; it’s really easy to create fur although it just takes patience. I will list what you need, a color for the fur, a small brush and to know how to use the burn tool. But I’ll walk you down the path. We’ll do a Lion’s fur in this tutorial, so first off look at the colors on the first image. Step...