3D (953 Tutorials)

Mettle SkyBox: Generate a Reflection Map From Your 3D Scene in AE

June 29, 2015

2 tutorials in one, on how to add more realism using Skybox to generate a reflection map on to shiny surfaces by Klaus Brandenburg; and different ways to make a Skybox Master by David Oldani.

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10 Tips for better lighting in Cinema 4D

June 29, 2015

Learn the basics of lighting and how it can help you when lighting a scene in Cinema 4D.

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Basic Character Rigging in Cinema 4D

June 25, 2015

Learn the basics of character rigging in Cinema 4D beginning with understanding how C4D calculates hierarchal orders and how this can help with rigging.  Orestis Konstantinidis created this highly detailed tutorial on the basics of character rigging in C4D.  It's a great starting point for the beginning rigger.

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Strawberry Modeling Tutorial + Quick Tip for Cinema 4D

June 25, 2015

iDani shares a great tip for creating the indents on a strawberry model that won't slow your computer down.

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Houdini: Lava like a Boss

May 13, 2015

Learn how to create realistic lava in this 2 part tutorial from Ben Watts.

In Part 1 of this tutorial, we'll start by setting up the emitter, dynamics & mesh for our main lava sim. After that's completed we'll create a secondary dynamics system consisting of temperature based particles that will impact the main sim to create tendril like strands and splashes.

In Part 2 of this tutorial, we'll learn an efficient way of sourcing smoke from our mesh. After that I'll show you how to render the geo & smoke at the same time whilst still maintaining separate passes. I'll show a nice easy way to render custom object buffers & take a look at adding some punch to our final rendered image in post with After Effects.

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Understanding Maxwell Materials the easy way

May 11, 2015

Topics covered in this video:

• Assisted materials: minute 9:25
• Advanced materials: begins at minute 15:32 …
• Diffuse materials: minute 17:27 (surfaces with high roughness)
• Metals – reflective, smooth, specular materials
• Plastics – glossy surfaces: minute 1:05:26
• Translucent materials: minute 1:24:29 (transparency with scattering)
• Multi-layered materials: minute 1:31:05 (decals/labels, opacity/masks)

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Cinema 4D Quick Tip: Quantize Function

May 11, 2015

Learn how to model smarter using the quantize function in MAXON Cinema 4D.

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ZBrush Modeling Techniques

May 4, 2015

Ali Noori describes how he used ZBrush to create his alien character: Infested Marine.  Read an excerpt here and then follow the links to read the entire tutorial.a

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Case Study: Fluid Dimension – Josh Clos

March 31, 2015

Josh Clos, the winner of the RealFlow / Cinema 4D Fluid Dimension Challenge in December 2014, takes us step-by-step in the creation of his winning RealFlow fluid sim.

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RealFlow Case Study: Batman: Arkham Knight + Bonus Tutorial

March 16, 2015

Check out this case study with Brandon Young of Blur Studio, talking about working with Next Limit RealFlow on Batman: Arkham Knight. They had a VFX problem to solve involving the Batmobile shooting out of water and spraying liquid all over the place. Learn about how they solved it.

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