Digital-Tutors presents a preview of their upcoming Creative Development course. In Creating a Matte Painting in 3ds Max with Vue xStream with Rubens Karamanites, viewers will learn about the integration between 3ds Max and Vue xStream for creating digital environments. Rubens Karamanites is an Autodesk Certified Instructor and provides viewers with detailed training to help members create stunning CG environments. This tutorial is already released, so you can already sign up.
With Digital Art Masters: Volume 6 you can discover how the finest 2D and 3D artist created some of the most innovative digital art in the world. More than a gallery book, Digital Art Masters: Volume 6 takes readers behind the scenes with breakdowns of the techniques and tricks the artists employed to create their stunning imagery. Inspirational and instructive, this is more than just a gallery or coffee table book; this is a timeless resource for any digital artist. 3DTotal is giving away a sample chapter of six pages from the book and you can download it, for FREE!
Digital-Tutors present sneak peak a first look at two new tutorials covering Exterior Rendering Techniques with mental ray for both 3ds Max and for Maya. In these tutorials, they take a deep look at the various tools, techniques and procedures that you can use when lighting an outdoor scene. This tutorial starts with explaining how to set up a realistic outdoor illumination source, and how to simulate physically-accurate light behavior within the scene and continue with incorporating a proper linear workflow into our pipeline.
3D Verve prepared a training course for Cinema 4D R13 consisting from over 13 hours of video tutorials carefully structured to give even a complete beginner introduction to working with Cinema 4D R13. The course is divided into four main chapters and an introduction to Cinema 4D to get you started with some basic skills; Basics, Still Life, Beach Ball, House and My Watch. You'll learn to model, texture and light a still life, a house and a watch.
This time we recommended you another „behind scene“ interview. Portal Art of VFX asked some questions John Knoll, VFX Supervisor in ILM, about their part at Mission Impossible – Ghost Protocol. ILM`s team was responsible for creating about 700 shots on the film, e.g. the Kremlin explosion, huge sand storm that surround Dubai or Burj Tower climbing sequence, where Ethan climbed from the 118th to the 130th floor of the world’s tallest building. As James Knoll revealed, this scene was largely filmed on the real building at the full height depicted.
