CGarena has uploaded a 6 part Series of Free Vray Render Tutorials. You can download and learn Vray Render tricks by going through the fantastic videos available from experts. It covers various material and rendering tricks with the complex Vray Render plugin for 3ds max.
Ballastic Publishing is pleased to announce that EXPOSÉ 6 is available for pre-orders.
Celebrate the World’s finest new Digital Art. Expose 6 is the latest Digital Art Yearbook featuring ‘the best of the best’. With 334 inspiring images prepared by 257 artists from 43 countries, you will discover the very best work across 20 different categories.
Pre-order customers will receive a free 15 minute video tutorial by Linda Bergkvist showing some of the detailing of the cover art “Red Robin”
Mr.CAD has posted a new collection of Free Fabric Textures which can be used in your Interior Render Visuals. Do check them out and hope you would make proper use of them in your 3d renderings.
An Extraordinary 3D Render was produced to create the Eternal Flame using SoftImage XSI. All the modeling was done using the Polygonal method. Learn Step by Step how the Image was produced using XSI. It is a nice tutorial for XSI users presented by CGArena. I am sure all the CGusers in general would benefit from the method Illustrated.
Here is a very nice beginers tutorial on how to Model Cloth on your Characters in Maya In this tutorial you will learn how to cloth up your characters in Maya using powerful built-in plug-in CpCloth, by doing this tutorial you will be able to understand fundamentals of Maya`s cloth system.
Check out the making of the 3D Tiger by Massimo Righi developed using Maya. He used real life references from the Thailand Zoo to create this wonderful artwork in maya. You can see how realistic fur and skin textures have been derived using Maya. It will help you step by step creation of the 3D animal techniques involved of making the Tiger.
Black spot removal in Mental ray renders
You can download the sample scene in 3ds max 9 format of a light fitting which demonstrates the problem of the black spot appearance that occurs when you final gather the mental ray render.
Black Spots can be seen in this render
Black Spots removed using DL3D shader
Final image rendered with Mental Ray 3ds max 9
Black Spot Removal in mental ray’s final gather
Creating Leather Texture
I’ve made a small sample Tutorial 3ds max 8 file for users to refer and understand the making of realistic Leather texture with 3ds max materials and no additional textures used.
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