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Polygon to Xgen Tutorial (Eng/Esp)

-In this tutorial I’ll show you how to convert polygons to Xgen Hair guides. -Model used Malcolm 2.0 courtesy of AnimSchool.com, Donwload the free rig in its website. -En este tutorial, les muestro como convertir un cabello poligonal a guías para hacer cabello en Xgen. -Modelo usado Malcolm 2.0 cortesía de AnimSchool.com, Descarga el rig […]

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 […]

Pose to pose and Straight ahead animation

You should only let spontaneity and improvisation guide you when everything you need for the shot is already in your head!” There are basically two existing and extremely different ways of animating: “Straight Ahead” and “Pose-To-Pose”. Both workflows are well-established in the industry and have been greatly improved since their first definition by the nine […]

Procedural Shaders

Click here! Intro: This is an introduction to procedural maps. I wrote an article in 2000 explaining roughly how I created a magma shader I had created earlier, unfortunantly during that time I didn’t really have any free time to really focus on it. So the article became a bit hard to follow, plus my […]

Proper tiling by Matt Vainio

One of the most basic map texturing issues is how to have your texture tile seamlessly across the map. This has been covered in many tutorials before, but not everyone may know the best way to do this. For the purposes of this tutorial I assume you have a copy of Adobe Photoshop. I used […]

PSYCHO MOM by Patrasciuc Cristian – Part 1

Introduction – The Concept After making a few “clean” projects, like cars or beautiful living-rooms, I’ve decided to make a scene where I can test my texturing ability and, maybe, improve it. So I chose to make a dirty scene. As there are a lot of scenes with dirty walls or corners, I’ve also looked […]

PSYCHO MOM by Patrasciuc Cristian – Part 2

Texturing Let’s pass to the next step (the most important of this project). First I set up the UV’s (only planar, box or cylindrical). This is like a sketch, because after I’ll paint the textures the UV’s will be adjusted in order to give the best result. Here is a screen shot with the UV’s […]

Quad Sphere Tutorial

Introduction Hi everyboby, this is my first tutorial so don’t expect too much.During my modeling sessions with Max I’ve seen that there are two kinds of spheres: normal (made with triangles and quads) and geosphere (made only with triangles). So I’ve started wondering how to make a sphere made just with quads. This is the […]

Reactor Motor Tutorial By Aziz Khan

Hello and welcome every buddy to my (Reactor Motor) tutorial. Many of the people who asked me about reactor function in 3ds max and they asked me different kind of question about reactor in 3ds max and I tried to answer them, I realize that I should write some reactor tutorials for those who need […]

Reactor Wheel Tutorial By Aziz Khan

Hello and welcome again to my (Reactor Wheel) Tutorial, I am writing this tutorial for request of some friends whom they needed this to their project, so I thought its should be for you too, hope you enjoy this tutorial and be able to learn some thing new. Ok I am not going to waste […]