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An introductory tutorial to N-Sided Quidam

In this exercise, I shall led you to explore some of the most important functions of the Quidam character creation software. The two elements that we shall gather are a cute and gentle faery and a natural background photograph. © Lionel Gérard In this exercise, I shall led you to explore some of the most […]

Making of Road Roller Car

Hello and welcome to the Making of my ROAD ROLLER CAR. Part 1 of the tutorial. First let me introduce my self,I am Fahid Mohammad and this is my first car modeling tutorial. The concept behind this is the name itself "ROAD ROLLER CAR". I tried my best to explain every step in developing this […]

Advanced tiling by Matt Vainio

Advanced tiling: For this tutorial, I will be dealing with tiling textures with a pattern, such as brick. These textures can be especially difficult to tile, depending on the source material. When looking for a source photograph for bricks and textures with an apparent pattern that needs to be preserved, look for/take photographs with as […]

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 […]

Occlusion in 3dsmax 7

Introduction Computers and application software are evolving at a tremendous pace. New methods and technical improvements are being introduced with every software release and today creating photorealistic renderings is just a couple of mouse clicks away. Going back a couple of years, raytracing, particularly raytraced reflections, was nothing more than a fake simulation with the […]

AK-47 modeling tutorial by coa

Hi my name is Aleksandar. This is my first tutorial. In this tutorial I’m gonn’a tryto help you to step by step model a AK 47 IN 3DS MAX 7. I assume you have beginner or advanced experiencein modeling. There are many pictures so I hope it will be no problems :}We will only use […]

VIDEO tutorial: Making ASANTI wheels by photo

3DM3 want to present you first video tutorial of Making ASANTI wheels by photo by be_fast. It’s a big series of video tutorials in hi-quality with comments. NOW you can download it for absolutely FREE and please post here your impressions about the tutorial. >> DOWNLOAD << Talk about this tutorial at the Forum >> […]

Dark house Matte Painting

This tutorial is actually a “making of” where I explain how I proceeded to achieve this matte painting. I use a Wacom Intuos² A4 board, if you don’t have any graphic board this is going to be hard but not impossible. At each step of the matte painting, useless to remind you to create a […]

VIDEO TUTORIAL: Organic modeling

Here we want to collect interesting and useful tutorials on 2D/3D packages. If you have the quality tutorial or you can write a good tutorial exclusively for us under one of the above categories, please contact stryker@3dm3.com This tutorial takes front and side reference images from www.3d.sk and prepares them for use as reference plates […]

VIDEO TUTORIAL: 3ds max Trick

In this video tutorial I show you a nice trick if you modeling a head or something like that. With this little trick, it helps you by modeling your mesh. Download video file Talk about this tutorial at the Forum >> 3DM3.comCopyright © martijn emmerzaalEdit by StrykerSource: http://www.3dm3.com

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

“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.

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 […]

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

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 […]

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 […]

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 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: 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: […]