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. […]

Modeling a Soda Can

1) Open up 3ds Max. Go to the Create tab, click on Shapes, and then select Line. This will allow us to draw an outline of the soda can. 2) Go into the Front viewport and draw the outline like you see below. Make sure you don’t connect the first and last vertex. 3) When […]

Modeling a Cup and Assigning a Material

Hey, lets make some cups to set on that table we modeled earlier. 1)Click on the Create Tab, then click on Geometry, then choose Cylinder. This will create a….cylinder. Give it the following values. 2) Convert your cylinder to Editable Poly by selecting it, right clicking, and going to Convert To, and select Editable Poly. […]

Modeling a Table

A table is super simple to model, it consists of just one modified box for the top, and four boxes for the legs. Let’s get started. 1) Create a box that is 50 by 80 by 1 units. And make sure it has only 1 length, width, and height segments. Make sure everything is exactly […]

Modeling a head using Nurbs-Polygon technique by Sasan Rafiee

In this technique we first create a low detail head by nurbs patch modeling then convert it to a polygon object, then we add detail to it. The reason is that we have more control on the basic shape in Nurbs modeling and then we apply powerful tools in polygon modeling to add details. You […]

High polygon realistic character creation

This is an overview of creating high polygon realistic 3D characters  ( with a particular leaning toward the creation of the above model ). My inspiration for writing it, was that as a long time videogame artist used to working with real-time constraints, I wanted to learn high resolution modeling techniques, and I couldn’t really find […]

VIDEO tutorial: Fat Monster – Gordo (modeling) by Rodrigo Banzato

Fat Monster – Gordo(modeling) – (basic/intermediate) – 17 Mb (language: portuguese) Talk about this tutorial at the Forum >> Next parts:Fat Monster – Gordo (texturing) by Rodrigo BanzatoFat Monster – Gordo (rendering/riging/animating) by Rodrigo Banzato 3DM3.comCopyright © Rodrigo BanzatoEdit by StrykerSource: http://www.tonka3d.com.br

Modeling of a wheels

Make a cylinder with the settings of picture 1 and picture 2 Then convert to an editable mesh by right clicking Select the outside polygons (squares) but missing one each time you should have 5 squares selected rotate with the tool at the bottom (see pic) Then scroll down the editable mesh menu and tyoe […]

Modeling of Shark

We look as to model this sweet shark. I got inspiration from Disney’s cartoon “Little Mermaid”. I idea was to create a shark that looks dangerous, but also has a cartoonesh look. It has small but compact body so even at first look you see that it’s strong.  and at the end it has to […]

How to create microscopic cell scenes

This is my 3rd 3dsmax tutorial, and it will teach you how to create microscopic cell scenes. It should be very easy to complete and interesting. It will cover all the modeling, and all the materials. If you have any questions, comments, or if you want or need any help, please email me at Viper680@hotmail.com. […]

Modeling Omega Tropic Tutorial by EL_Shadow [TeknoBrothers®]

Ok, everyone! After receiving tutorial requests, here am I this time to realize the desire of many of you. I received many mails asking for the techniques I use to model my cars and…err, well… I do use polymodeling by deforming patches, if you know what I mean. I do use a bit of splines-modeling, […]

How to create a portrait from photograph

1. Prepare 2 photos or skectchs of front and side of a head. Create 2 box as in figure 1. Be cafeful of the proportions when you assign mapping on them. figure 1 camera view 2. At front elevation, draw lines, following the contour. Make sure every vertex join together in rectangular or triangular shape […]

Draw a roof by using connect in editblepoly by Smoke

I have an idea how to draw roof tiles on a roof with editablepoly as one of my recent work needed a close up view of the roof that need more detail than using bitmap. The model is quite light and not so complicated. Create an object with 2 polygons. If you draw from a […]

Clock tutorial by Oellas

Hi people, in this tutorial I will show you a few tips to create aclock in 3d max and render it with Fryrender. Then I will show you howto apply fry materials and how to make the light setup. Finally, I will show you how to work with the tone mapping and layer blending controls. […]

Modeling Mazda RX8

Starting Starting out with the setup of your chosen blueprints, I?ve decided to make the “Mazda RX8” and I found the blueprints at http://www.onnovanbraam.com/ who has an wide range of car blueprints. Get the Mazda blueprint here BLUEPRINT You start out with making 4 boxes that match the size of your blueprint images and then […]

Modelling of cast disc

Part 1.(inner part of disc)So,to create any disc we need no less than 2 photos of this disc: a) in face (to be used as drawing) b) side-view (to visualize disc profile) To begin with, one main advice-modelling any subject (not only the disc) every 2 minutes look at the photo Open 3D Studio Max […]

Car

This tutorial is complex from the point of view of modeling, because the user will pass thorough different techniques like surface tools(spline modeling), mesh edit (polygonal modeling), mesh smooth. This tutorial is not recommended to beginners, although they will learn some useful tricks from here. The tutorial is entirely conceived in 3D Studio Max 3.0 […]