Friday, February 27, 2009

Mudbox 2009: Quickstart Series - Part 11

In this new part of the series learn about speed concept sculpting and the magic of curves in Mudbox

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/mudbox/mudbox2009/mudbox_tutorials11.html

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Spot Story: The Rebirth of a Legend

For a successful market debut of its new Scirocco, VW relied on an innovative Web special and MACKEVISION done the work

http://www.cgarena.com/archives/news/rebirth_legend.html

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Making of an Interceptor - UFO Series Tribute

Artist created this image in 3dsmax to give tribute to fantastic science fiction UFO series

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/max/interceptor/interceptor_ufo.html

Quidam 3 is coming

N-Sided announces the coming release of QUIDAM 3, the new version of its 3D character creation program

http://www.cgarena.com/archives/news/quidam3_coming.html

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Zspheres in ZBrush

How you can use Zsphere modelor to create models which can be converted into 3d poly mesh and added as subtools

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/zbrush/pixozbrush/zspheres_zbrush.html

Autodesk launched Softimage 7.5

Autodesk, Inc. has launched Softimage 7.5, with this release renamed the SOFTIMAGE|XSI to Autodesk Softimage.

http://www.cgarena.com/archives/news/autodeskxsi75.html

Making of Mahala

Mahala is a Balkan word for neighbourhood or quarter, a section of a rural or urban settlement

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/max/mahala/mahala.html

Friday, February 20, 2009

Hand Modeling in 3D

This tutorial will teach you how you can model a hand from sketch using polygon modeling. You can use any 3d software.

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/max/handmodeling/hand_modeling.html

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Interview with Yousef Ikhreis

30 years old self taught artist from Jordon, working as a Art Direction and have a 10 years experience in the industry

http://www.cgarena.com/archives/interviews/yousef/yousef_interview.html

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Making of A Winter Amid the Ice

Boat starting to be frozen by the ice, a small group of explorers on their way to save their fellow who went missing

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/max/winter_ice/winter_amid_ice.html

Monday, February 16, 2009

Character Design and Development in ZBrush

In these videos Cesar Dacol Jr. will demonstrate that Zbrush is not just for the characters

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/zbrush/pixozbrush/cesar/character_design.html

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Mudbox 2009: Quickstart Series - Part 10

In this new part you will learn about Baking ambient Occlusion map and Waynes ambient Occlusion map trick

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/mudbox/mudbox2009/index10.html

Rendering for Animation with Final Gathering

Learn how to properly setup an architectural scene in preparation for camera animation using mental ray and Final Gathering

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/xsi/i3d/rendering-animation-final-gathering.html

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Making of Manolia

Artist taken the advice of the photographers about how to set up the composition and created in Maya and ZBrush

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/zbrush/manolia/manolia.html

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Video Interview with James ODonnell

A GDC 2008 interview with artist / coder James ODonnell about the Battlefield 2 mod, Forgotten Hope 2.

http://www.cgarena.com/archives/interviews/noesis_interview/james_odonnell.html

Monday, February 09, 2009

Video Making of No More Wine

Simon Blanc of Blur Studios, shows you the tools he used to create his ZBrush work No More Wine

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/zbrush/pixozbrush/nomorewine/no-more-wine-simon-blanc.html

Friday, February 06, 2009

Making of It's a New World

Futuristic painting making where artist sees the similarity between the hardware circuit and the leaves veins

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/photoshop/neworld/new-world.html

Thursday, February 05, 2009

Feb-Mar 09 Animation Magazine Free Issue Download

Once again CGArena brings you another issue of your favourite animation magazine which is free to download

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/ezine/feb09_issue.html

Tuesday, February 03, 2009

Irradiance Particles in Mental Ray for Maya 2009

In this video tutorial become familiar with the new Irradiance Particles feature from the latest version of mental ray in Maya

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/maya/i3d/irradiance-particles-mental-ray-maya2009.html

Monday, February 02, 2009

Mudbox 2009: Quickstart Series - Part 9

This part will explain 32bit displacement from Mudbox to Maya 2009, Cavity Map Trick and realtime normal map viewing demo

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/mudbox/mudbox2009/index9.html