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Making of “Green-eyed foreign woman”

It was an absolutely usual evening. I was drinking tea and watching some 2d and 3d art galleries. Suddenly I saw something special, Bao Pham’s green art of girl, who has incredible gaze. Everything was saturated with harmony and serenity. So I angry and said “Why it’s so beautiful?!” Then I left my tea, opened […]

Hull Damage

Want to know how to tear up your favorite starship without actually messing up the mesh? Use textures. We could start with a sphere but that’d be too easy. Grab your favorite mesh instead. The easiest way to apply even burn marks over a whole mesh is if the mesh is one attached object. That’s […]

The progress of modelling a Character

1. I am modelling this character using Maya 4. The sole purpose of making this character is fun. At this time, I dont really know where it will all end, but lets see how it evolves :) This is where the screenshorts start. To sum up what happend, then I started by creating a poly […]

Modeling a Chair

Hey, another simple model. Why not make a chair to accompany your table? 1) First of all, make a box that is 35 by 30 by 2 units. And make sure that the length, width, and height segments are 1. 2) Select the box, right click it, go to Convert To, and select Editable Poly. […]

Modelling a planet. Setting up the scene and light

First it should be mentioned that this method is useful only for those cases when the planet is shown at the middle or background. 1. Create the scene in 3D MAX2. In Geometry –> geosphere create a spheresized 132 (it is not important what size it will be, it’s up to you to decide)3. Duplicate […]

VIDEO Tutorial: Introduction to the XSI 6 Mod Tool

This Noesis Interactive tutorial introduces you to the recently released Softimage/XSI 6 Mod Tool. The Mod Tool is specially designed for video game development and is available for free download from the Softimage website. Learn how to get started with this powerful 3D program. Download video file INFO: Size of original movie: 146 MB Compressed […]

VIDEO: Irradiance Particles and HDRI Rendering

In this video taken from our “Rendering with SOFTIMAGE|XSI v.II: mental ray” training product, we will get to see how to use the new irradiance particles indirect illumination algorithm and combine it with image based lighting using HDRI rendering. This technique allows us to use the environment sampling feature of irradiance particles to render a […]

VIDEO TUTORIAL: Sculpting in ZBrush for 3D Printing with Jeff Feligno

Jeff Feligon takes you step by step through the process of preparing your ZBrush sculpture for 3D printing. Download video file: Part 1 Download video file: Part 2 Download video file: Part 3 Download video file: Part 4 Download video file: Part 5 Download video file: Part 6 Talk about this tutorial at the Forum […]

Making of “Voodoo Doll” (part 6/6)

In this final part of the tutorial, we will discuss how the background was created to finalize the piece. This includes the texture, lighting, ambient occlusion and more. We will also discuss and demonstrate the importance of final character and environment details including light scattering, light particle effects and adding final wear and tear to […]