Making of: The Joker

On this project I used maya for the base model, zbrush for details, Photoshop for texturing and matte painting, shave and haircut for the hair and mentalray for rendering.

Maya Modeling Basics: Chair Part 2

This video from Andrew Klein (www.andrewklein.net) covers duplicating using the duplicate special command, freezing and reseting transformations, and creating the slats for the seat of the chair.

Modeling of Schwerin Theater

I use Autodesk 3dsmax version 9 for modeling so run it. I will use default unit setup for this project because I want make it with my eyes so unit isn’t important.

Painting Grass by John Shannon

This small Tutorial will show the methods I use to create grass, everything was created using Adobe® Photoshop 5.5 and a mouse. Below are some step by step images showing the various stages and a brief description outlining the easy methods used to create them. Step one Above in step one I have 2 layers […]

Porsche Speed

Hi peoples! We made this film to showcase our CG abilities. We wanted to make the best showcase one can imagine for a new car. We chose the Porsche since we…just..like Porsches! We storyboarded, previzzed, animated and rendered it all in house. Production took 4 weeks, rendering on a 8 core MacPro took 4 months […]

Portrait of a silent man by Patrick Eischen

About the image There are many rendered portraits in a lot of galleries. I was always impressed by the high quality of the MentalRay FastSkin shader and how easy it was to set it up once you understood the basic concept of how skin works. But as I ‘only’ have Cinema 4D, MentalRay is not […]

Sasktel “Raving Red” TV Spot

The crew here at Red Rover just finished our latest commercial for Sasktel. This being the last of 13 spots we’ve done in the past year for this campaign, we decided to go all out and try a one shot.

Setup car rendering studio with V-ray by be_fast

1. Open 3DS Max . Press F10 to show rendering settings dialog or the button with the tea-pot icon on the main panel as shown on the picture 1. At the Common tab expand Assign Render rollout and show the dialog to select V-ray reder by pressing the button with the triple-dot. 2. Set parameters […]

Stop motion

A SHORT LOVE STORY IN STOP MOTION by Carlos Lascano. A couple of pencil-outlined birds escape from a little girl´s drawing, leading us through the life she dreams of.

UVing a Hand with Maya (Part 2)

This video looks at how to use the new (to maya 2009) UV unwrap tools in Maya to cut apart a hand by UV edges. Perfect for very fast organic UV unwraps is the smooth UV tool, also demonstrated.

VIDEO TUTORIAL: Modeling of Portal Cube

The Portal Cube or Weighted Companion from the Valve game Portal has become somewhat of an icon. This morning I modelled this in 3D Studio Max and recorded to show how it was done. This is a High-Poly model which demonstrates some basic to moderate modelling techniques and adding some textures. DOWNLOAD VIDEO FILE Talk […]

VIDEO tutorial: Roman soldier

In this VIDEO tutorial you will see how to make Roman soldier. Tutorial time 2:15 h -> speeded up 600-700%. Thanks KLICEK Size: 40 MB Link to codec:http://www.techsmith.com/download/codecs.asp Talk about this tutorial at the Forum >> 3DM3.comCopyright © KLICEKEdit by StrykerSource: http://www.evermotion.org

Video: 3d Max 2008 Mental ray exterior light & render setup tutorial

In this video tutorial of www.renderray.com, we will work on the Exterior Light setup, Render settings & HDRI, Environment Effects And Mental Ray Photographic Exposure Control setup to make a realistic and professional render. To download the sample scene go to www.renderray.com Renderray is an online cg community specialised in rendering, where you can download […]

VIDEO: Modeling of Tennis Ball in 3DS MAX

Simple Modeling of Tennis Ball by Khuram Shahzad. Download video file Talk about this tutorial at the Forum >> 3DM3.comCopyright © Khuram ShahzadEdit by StrykerSource: http://www.3dm3.com