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[Video] Texture Painting with Softimage/XSI – Part 2

This is the second of a two part tutorial series from Noesis Interactive. Using Softimage/XSI, learn shading, painting, and mapping techniques with a car door as an example. This lesson will be very useful to anyone interested in creating textures for 3D objects. Download video file INFO: Size of original movie: 73 MB Compressed in […]

[Video] Texture Painting with Softimage/XSI – Part 1

This is the first of a two part tutorial series from Noesis Interactive. Using Softimage/XSI, learn shading, painting, and mapping techniques with a car door as an example. This lesson will be very useful to anyone interested in creating textures for 3D objects. Download video file INFO: Size of original movie: 86 MB Compressed in […]

[Video] Tagging a Rig in Softimage/XSI

This short lesson from Noesis Interactive outlines the steps to “tag a rig” in Softimage/XSI. This process teaches you how to set up your rigs so that you can re-target animations and apply motion capture data to different 3D characters. Animators and Riggers focusing on video game development will find this tutorial very useful. INFO: […]

Creating Facemaps with Photoshop

This Noesis Interactive tutorial teaches the process of creating custom facial maps using Photoshop. Learn how to take a series of digital photos and edit them together so that they are ready to be mapped onto a 3D game model as a single texture. If you’ve ever wanted to see your own face inside a […]

Making of Varga by Paul Tosca

This tutorial is dedicated to 3DM3 community. 1.Intro 2.Game modeling workflows 3.Tools used 4.Workflow used for Varga 5.Final model You could also check the first part of this tutorial : Varga hair tutorial (low poly game character hair) This is not a step by step tutorial. I will summarize the workflow i used for one […]

Studio Lighting Tutorial

In this tutorial, I will show you how to setup a studio lighting rig that I use mainly for vehicle rendering. Basic to intermediate knowledge of 3DS Max is needed for this tutorial. I will be using 3DS MAX 9 for this tutorial, if you have a different version, your button configuration may be a […]

Rendering yellow Ferrari

Click here to view big image As you can see above, this is the final image. It took 15 mins to achieve this look with a dual Xeon 3.0 and 2 gb ram. Here is the scene layout in 3dsmax ( I use version 9 ) The main idea for this image was to have […]

Making of Quad bike by Ali Ismail

Introduction This will be a brief explanation about making of the quad bike, I like quads but you won’t exactly see me riding one (too scary for me ;) ) anyway it was needed for a small project for a presentation of a quad and motorcycles racing track, it needed to be animated as well. […]

Z4 Unleashed

The snatch of this car was and binding by chains, but Z4 can breaking this chain, so Z4 unleashed. Hello, my name is Mohamed Abuyhia from Alexandria Egypt. It is the first time for me in the cars modeling I was thought that it is complicated but after this try I found that it is […]

Making of Tallgate by Henry Pashkov

This tutorial devoted to making process of my artwork – “Tallgate” investigation and ideas that I used in this direction would probably be interesting to some of the readers and I dare to hope they would be as well useful. Flash size 8.5 MB Talk about this tutorial at the Forum >> 3DM3.comCopyright © Henry […]

VIDEO TUTORIAL: mia_round Corners in Maya

In this video tutorial I’ll explain in depth how to use the mia_roundCorners node newly introduced in maya 8.5. Its use with maya materials as well as mental ray materials and mia_material will be discussed and explained in detail. INFO: Original size of movie: 25 MB Compressed size in .RAR: 19 MB Duration is about: […]

Making of Paragalis

Introduction: This tutorial will cover my personal workflow for 3d modeling, 3d sculpting, retopo / optimizing, UV’s, normal map generation, light map generation, and texturing. The Creature Summary: Paragalis is literally a walking parasite that’s approximately the size of a large dog from tentacle tip to tale. The creature is an ambush predator who catches […]

VIDEO TUTORIAL: ZDepth & Height GrayScale represention

In this maya video tutorial i’ll explain in depth, how to create GrayScale representation of ZDepth as well as Height fields, using many methods including”shading networks” & “mel scripting”. INFO:Original size of movie: 38 MBCompressed size in .ZIP: 34 MBDuration is about: 13 minutes and 22 secondsFormat: QuickTime Movie (*.mov) Download video file Talk about […]

Making a planet by Greg Martin

This tutorial should step you through making a simple, yet realistic-looking planet using Adobe Photoshop 7, and ONLY Adobe Photoshop 7. We’re working small here, so keep in mind that the larger you work, the harder the planet will be to create (just a bit more work as size increases). To complete this tutorial and […]

Transforming an Inferior Render into Superior Artwork

Hey there, long time no see. This is a new photoshop tutorial of mine that will teach you how to transform one of thoseugly, desaturated renders into a wonderful image that will look phenomenal when compared to it’s original counterpart. Ok,to start off, open Photoshop and load up the render that you want tofix, I […]

Setting of illuminationin VRay 1.50

Format: *.aviTime: 0:11:05Quality: GoodSize: 3 MB Download video file Talk about this tutorial at the Forum >> 3DM3.comCopyright © FILEdit by StrykerSource: http://www.3dmir.ru

VIDEO TUTORIAL: Brazil GI

Well I have created this video tutorial how to light up scene using the Brazil rendering system, this tutorial is very handy for those of you who are new using Brazil render. Info: Original movie size: 34.6 MBCompressed size in winrar: 3.07 MBDuration of tutorial: 5 minutes and 18 secondsFormat: QuickTime Download video file Talk […]

“Seat Leon II” by David Melchor

This is a quick tutorial that explains all the process to make this composition. We´re going to see how to make the model, materials, lighting, render parameters and finishig the image with photoshop.

How to create a model of a sport car – Nissan 350-Z

This is a step-by-steptutorial that explanehow to create 350Z’s body using polygonal modeling in Maya environment,but you can apply this technique to other poly-modeling software. Step 1 This is my screen-shot after I have correctly placed my blueprints. Step 2 To start with, we’ll concentrate on the front part of the car. I’ve divided it […]

Matte Painting: winter

This is my second matte painting tutorial (first tutorial here). Here I wanted to change the season of a scene from summer to winter. Specific device used: Wacom Intuos² A4 First of all, find a good res picture. I chose to use a picture of a house I found on the web. You can find […]

VIDEO TUTORIAL: Creating Custom Marking Menus

I have crated a video tutorial with voice in Maya that how to create custom marking menus. INFO: Original size of movie: 20.1 MBCompressed size in .RAR: 1.9 MBDuration is about: 4 minutes and 26 secondsFormat: QuickTime Movie (*.mov) Download video file Talk about this tutorial at the Forum >> 3DM3.comCopyright © Aziz KhanEdit by […]