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Make a Jurassic World Dinosaur in Maya + Pixologic™ ZBrush® #MayaMonday
May 20, 2019
Soni Kumari at CG Tuts has put together an amazing 7 part series on making a hulking, bipedal T-Rex dinosaur with Maya and ZBrush. For fun, I’ve thrown in some interesting T-Rex facts along the way. For example, the T-Rex may be the most famous dinosaur, but scientists believe that it was actually an invasive…
Maya Monday: Useful Scripts & Tools
May 13, 2019
A few useful scripts and tools can really help speed up your workflow. These scripts and tools automate time-consuming tasks, in particular. Free Useful Script Automatically Finds Hard Edges In Maya Lester Banks posted this free and definitely script last week that comes from Play Creative. It saves you time by automatically selecting hard edges….
In Depth: Render Farms / Network Rendering / Distributed Rendering
May 10, 2019
The idea of network rendering is to distribute your render over a network, or farm, of computers, to speed up your render times.
Cinema 4D Industrial Tutorial Roundup #TutorialTuesday
May 7, 2019
Cinema 4D Industrial Tutorial Roundup with tutorials on modeling, rigging, and texturing for things like car parts, tool parts, machine parts, and more.
Maya Monday: V-Ray Next for Maya Tutorials
May 6, 2019
V-Ray Next for Maya Tutorials! V-Ray Next for Maya brings speed, quality, power, creative control and smart integrations to your workflow.
Using FumeFX 5 VDB caches with V-Ray Next, Redshift renderers
April 30, 2019
Sitni Sati has a new FumeFX tutorial that came out yesterday about VDB caches. Centrally, they explain how to export cache files to OpenVDB (.vdb) format. These files include FumeFX grid transformations, and in the end, this information will be used by the VRayVolumeGrid and Redshift Volume to properly position volumetrics to the exact same…
Hidden Maya Tricks to Speed Up Your Workflow #MayaMonday
April 29, 2019
These are not necessarily hidden but often overlooked by artists, even those artists who have been using Maya for years. Get out your notebooks and pens!
3 U-RENDER Quick Tips
April 24, 2019
U-RENDER is one of the newer renderers available for Cinema 4D, and furthermore, it’s 10% off at Toolfarm through April 30, 2019.
Cinema 4D: Blueprint Style Renders with Sketch & Toon
April 23, 2019
In this tutorial, EJ from eyedesyn shows you how to use Sketch & Toon in Cinema 4D to create a blueprint style render. And he even tells you the tricks to prevent annoying line flickering in Sketch & Toon renders.
Maya Monday: Destructing Elements with Pulldownit (Part 12 is New)
April 22, 2019
Envato’s CGI Tuts+ has a multi-part series from Uriel Deveaud named “Destructing Elements in Maya With PullDownIt”. Pulldownit is a dynamics solver which allows digital artists to quickly simulate fractures and cracks in models, as well as massive rigid bodies simulations.
Maxon Cinema 4D NAB 2019 Live Stream Videos
April 16, 2019
If you missed the Maxon Cinema 4D NAB 2019 live stream last week or you were at the show, watch it all now! There is loads of inspiring work and lots of great tips on improving your workflow.
Maya Monday: The Arnold GPU Public Beta with Arvid Schneider, Greyscalegorilla
March 25, 2019
The Arnold GPU public beta last week, with the release of Arnold v5.3. Arnold GPU gives artists the ability to switch between CPU and GPU rendering easily.
How to Use Substance Materials in Revit 2019
March 20, 2019
Revit 2019 allows for a beautiful workflow between Revit and Substance. Learn how to make your architecturally rendered scenes look more realistic.
Pixar RenderMan 5-Part Tutorial Series
March 12, 2019
Visual effects artist Rusty Hazelden has released an in-depth 5 part RenderMan tutorial series on YouTube. The Art of RenderMan Volume 1 provides an introduction to Pixar’s RenderMan for Maya.
Fresh Prince of Arabia, Cheap Tricks | Red Giant
March 5, 2019
In this episode, Fresh Prince of Arabia, Hashi from Action Movie Kid takes you on a magical journey into the uncanny valley as he shows you how to recreate Will Smith’s Genie from the new Aladdin trailer. With the help of some special guests along the way, you’ll learn about working with and animating 3D…