3D (850 Tutorials)

3D Rooms with Cineware / AE and Automatic Follow Through

September 16, 2014

It’s days 10 and 11 of 30 Days of After Effects from School of Motion in Sarasota, Florida. Joe explains how to use Cineware to set up a scene in a 3D environment. In the second part, he focuses on animating the dog in the room with an expression.

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Boris Red Advanced Text Fill Options

September 16, 2014

Originally posted by BorisFX, this tutorial for Boris RED is “based on an inquiry regarding gradient on text in the Avid forum. Senior Product Manager, Dirk deJong, shows you how to add gradient with bevel and 3D looks across entire words using a texture track.”

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Top 5 3D Camera Tips for Adobe After Effects

September 16, 2014

Get tips and techiniques from Sean Frangella for “working with 3D cameras in After Effects, including changing focal length, parenting cameras to nulls, cutting between multiple cameras, roving keyframes, and linking depth of field.”

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Autodesk Maya Soccer ball and Basketball Modeling

September 9, 2014

Here’s a few tutorials on creating different sports balls in Maya.

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Topographic Images using Hair in MAXON Cinema 4D

September 9, 2014

Chris Schmidt from Greyscale Gorilla, was inspired by some gorgeous renders by Lee Griggs, and attempted to recreate rolling hills of geometry in C4D. He didn't want to use MoGraph clones as the shear number needed would be overwelming. So he set out to create a more procedural technique and came up with using the Hair Module.

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GI Area Light Script and Tutorial for Reflectance Channel for MAXON CINEMA 4D R16

September 8, 2014

Nick from Greyscalegorilla has a useful script to help you properly light a scene with the Reflectance Channel and his GI Area Light Script.

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Facial Modeling Timelapse Software: Maya

September 2, 2014

Tips & Tricks related to facial modeling for Animated Productions by Sergi Caballer.

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Fluid Flush X-Particles Tutorials for Maxon Cinema 4D

September 2, 2014

If you are a fan of X-Particles and Cinema 4D then stop and take a second to check out a few of these great tutorials we have managed to round up!

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After Effects Video Tutorial: 3D Corner Text

September 2, 2014

Follow the technique in this After Effects tutorial to animate text around the edges of a 3D object.

The tutorial covers:

3D Anchor Points
Easy-Ease Keyframes
Key-framing Cameras
Snapping Vertexes Together

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Extreme Eye Closeup with Mettle FreeForm Pro

August 12, 2014

This is a two part tutorial on how to create a highly detailed human Iris using the FreeForm Pro plugin by Mettle.

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News: See What’s New in MAXON CINEMA 4D R16

August 7, 2014

Cinema 4D Release 16 places a greater emphasis than ever before on visual effects and realism, with key features like Motion Tracking and multi-layered reflections. Here’s a wonderful collection of tutorials for all the great new features.

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Creating an Island Environment in Blender

July 25, 2014

This is a 3 part tutorial on how to create an island environment using Blender 2.6 and Chaos Group V-Ray. It’s a long and complicated process, but the end result is stunning!

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Lightwave to Faceshift and back

July 25, 2014

3D Artist Fabio Annunziata shows how to animate a LightWave model in FaceShift and bring it back into LightWave!

In this tutorial, Fabio Annuiziata gives you a thorough explanation of how to:

set up a model with all the morph you need to be used in faceshift
import a custom model into faceshift
perform a face track
use this animation back in LightWave

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Making Asteroids in 3ds Max with Sitni Sati AfterBurn

July 25, 2014

We promise… the asteroids you are about to learn how to make look a whole lot better than the asteroids in the classic video game!

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Choosing the Correct Focal Length for Cinema 4D Cameras

July 25, 2014

When Nick Campbell posts a tutorial then you know it’s bound to be gold. Check this one out that discusses different focal lengths and their primary uses!

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