3D (860 Tutorials)

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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It’s Paper from Pingo van der Brinkloev with a Bonus Tutorial

June 24, 2014

Here’s some Midweek Motivation for you. Pingo creates amazing folded paper animation in CINEMA 4D.

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3D CAMERATRACKER Plug-in Tutorial by The Pixel Lab

June 10, 2014

Joren from The Pixel Lab shows the workflow of working with footage tracked with The Foundry’s CAMERATRACKER in After Effects and then bringing that footage into MAXON CINEMA 4D.

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Creating Custom Bevels in Zaxwerks 3D ProAnimator and 3D Invigorator Pro

June 9, 2014

From the creative minds at Zaxwerks comes a wonderful tutorial showing how easy it is to create your own custom bevels in 3D ProAnimator and 3D Invigorator Pro. This tutorial teaches you how to utilize the Profile Editor to create and edit bevels. You will also learn how to customize 3D Text and vector shapes.

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Model A Microphone with A Wire Mesh Texture in Cinema 4D

June 3, 2014

In this Greyscalegorilla tutorial by Chris Schmidt, he will show you how to uses dynamics, modeling, and texturing to create a 3D microphone in Maxon Cinema 4D.

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Create a Fireball with Autodesk 3Ds Max and Sitni Sati FumeFX

May 27, 2014

Vikrant Dalai explains how to make a fireball with a smoke trail for use in your space war film, video game or dinosaur extinction recreation documentary.

Vikrant says: “In this tutorial, I'll show you how I created this fireball with the help of 3ds Max and the FumeFX Plugin. There are different types of techniques we can use to make this effect in FumeFX – e.g. Simple Sources, Object Sources, Particle Sources, etc. But this time we will use a Simple Source. And for this purpose we are going to use three different Simple Sources, some standard lights (Target Spot & Omni), and the default Scanline Renderer.”

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