Friday, March 28, 2008

Making of Black Bashi - Bazouk

Learn how artist painted a Master Copy of Gerome Jean Leons Black Bashi-Bazouk in Photoshop

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/photoshop/blackbashi/index.html

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

N-sided Quidam 2 Review

Read the review of the new version of Quidam which have some new exciting advanced features

http://www.cgarena.com/archives/reviews/quidam/review_v2.html

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Making of the Corridor

Spectacular sc-fi scene with architecture modeled in lightwave with simple organic shapes

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/misc/corridor/index.html

Monday, March 24, 2008

Fixing Reference Images

Learn how to fix your reference images in Photoshop and then bring them into Maya to start modeling

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/photoshop/setting_referenceImages/references.html

Thursday, March 20, 2008

Video Tutorial: Female Face Modeling

This female face modeling tutorial in 3ds max created by Giorgio with the help of Julia Goncharenko and this 1 hour 9 minutes video covers all small details which people get crazy trying to and search how they figures out. You can't get a better than this free video tutorial for female face modeling.

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/max/femaleface/facemodel.html

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Create Realistic Head in XSI

In this tutorial by Steve Jubinville learn how to create a realistic head using ZBrush and Softimage XSI

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/xsi/realistichead/index.html

Friday, March 14, 2008

Video Tutorial: Interior Lighting by using Mental Ray

This tutorial will explain you how to use Sunlight, Skylight in the daylight interior scene and later color correction

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/max/interiorlighting_video/index.html

Create a Ocean in 3ds max

This tutorial just give you an idea how you can create an ocean with few simple steps

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/max/ocean/index.html

Thursday, March 13, 2008

Making of Korean Actress Song Hye Kyo in 2D

May be you have read the making of Song hye kyo in 3d before exclusively on cgarena, but now read in 2d created in photoshop

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/photoshop/songhyekyo/index.html

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Making of the Death of a Bird

The scene was modeled in Autodesk 3ds max 9; the whole idea was to model a bird cage as a part of modeling practice.

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/max/birddeath/index.html

Friday, March 07, 2008

Glowing Material with Mental Ray

Glowing materials are very useful to create light effects. For example a neon-light effect. This kind of material is a light-emitting material.

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/max/glowingmaterial/index.html

Thursday, March 06, 2008

Training DVD Review: Old Damaged Pillar

If you are an intermediate/advanced user and like to learn next gen art then we recommend this training DVD

http://www.cgarena.com/archives/reviews/eat3d_damaged.html

Making of Eternal Flame

Everything modeled using traditional polygon modeling in Softimage XSI and this is a new step towards learning

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/xsi/eternalFlame/index.html

Monday, March 03, 2008

Developing a Scripted utility in max

This tutorial will guide you to develop a scripted utility in 3ds max 9, basic knowledge of maxscript required

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/max/scriptutility/index.html

HDRI in Lightwave

This tutorial attempts to cover every aspect of HDR rendering and other concepts which work in any 3d software

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/misc/hdri_lightwave/index.html