Magazine June 07 Issue Released

Download the much appreciated free bi-monthly magazine on animation which includes lot of useful information

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/ezine/june07_issue.html

Making of DAWN, The Dinotaur

I wanted to capture the feel of a strong Warrior, instead of going in the 'scary monster' route

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/max/dinotaur/

Making of Bobby bubble

Several details on the creation of this small little insane character in 3ds max from concept to final render

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/max/bobbybubble/

Modeling Volleyball in Maya

In this beginners tutorial we will learn another technique about modeling the ball of volleyball sport.

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/maya/volleyball/volleyball.html

Interview with Pete Draper

Director of Visual Effects which covers the full gamut of CG production from concept to direction to final delivery

http://www.cgarena.com/archives/interviews/petedraper/interview.html

Vote for Best 3D Image in Challenge Nightmare

Post your valuable vote now to choose best 3d image

http://forum.cgarena.com/viewtopic.php?t=2620

Vote for Best 2D Image in Challenge Nightmare

Post your valuable vote now to choose best 2d image

http://forum.cgarena.com/viewtopic.php?t=2619

Low Poly Character Hair in Maya

Main stages for creating hair for game characters using lots of images & some print-screens directly from application

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/maya/lowpolyHair/

Ipod Commerical Lighting Streaks in After Effects

This tutorial we will create lighting streaks like you have seen in the latest commercial of Apple Ipod Nano

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/ae/lightingstreaks/

Painting Dock from the concept art

This will explain you how to realize quickly & easily visual of Concept Art with the method of Scott Robertson

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/photoshop/dock/

Freelancers Manifesto - A Collection of Advices

Collection of advices and guidelines but may be informative for young artists planning on starting a freelancer career

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/misc/freelancers/

AsiaOne writes article on CGArena

AsiaOne is a free-access, one-stop information mall which serves users’ news, business and lifestyle needs

http://digital.asiaone.com.sg/news/20070513_002.html

Interior Illumination

cgThis tutorial is ideal for illumination of a living room, kitchen, bed room which is illuminated by sunlight

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/max/interiorIllumination/

Making a anemone in Realflow

In this tutorial you will learn how to create anemone in realflow and open a new way to build and think

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/max/anemone/

Making a Sideshow Bob

Artist Jalo explained the concept behind the sideshow bob and how to create a rigging and skinning of character

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/max/sideshowBob/

Punishment of Psycho Pianist

I want to create the last moment of psycho pianist who suffers from Aids disease and deliver a message to all

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/punishmentChallenge/p2/

Video Tutorials: Mudbox Workflow

Check out these video tutorials by Ashraf Aiad on Mubbox workflow.

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/mudbox/mudboxworkflow/

Object Spreading methods in maya

Maya has not dedicated tools to spread objects and it is often asked how to indeed, so here you have 5 ways

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/maya/objectSpreading/

Pop Art Comic Strip

Convert any picture of your choice into pop art comic strip using your favourite software Adobe Photoshop

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/photoshop/popart/

Photoreal rendering with HDRI

Photoreal rendering with HDRI - Step by step how you can make your own hdri images, and use for your render to get a photorealistic look

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/misc/photoreal/

Interview with John Kearney

28 year old English artist with over 10 years experience, most of which have been as a 3D artist in games industry

http://www.cgarena.com/archives/interviews/johnkearney/

Create Easter Color Egg

In this tutorial I will show you how we can create an egg and how we can make texture for it by using various softwares

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/max/easteregg/

Project Overview: My Son Marcus

Since 3 years I create backgrounds and architectural images. and my son was the perfect subject for human model

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/misc/marcus/

Studio Lighting in Vray

With the knowledge of this tutorial you will be able to present your models in a more ambitious way than before

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/max/studiolighting/

Making of Punishment of Student

Stoffel will explain you my workflow and the modeling, texturing, rendering phase of my picture punishment

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/punishmentChallenge/p1/

Sonicwall protects WoW players

Sonicwall internet threat prevention protects customers against exploits targeting World of Warcraft players

http://www.cgarena.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2409

Making of The Age of Numeron

Numeron was kingdom described by Tolkien in his books and this image is inspired from the lord of the rings

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/max/numeron/

Realistic Lighting with LDRI

LDRI images which will help us to get the lighting similar to the lighting with hdri images

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/maya/ldri/

Painting Kadaj in Painter

Aulia Ully Rahmi explained step by step procedure how painted the Kadaj image in painter

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/painter/kadaj/

Mental Ray Illumination Tutorial

Tutorial which simulates the illumination techniques of a photo studio. Ideal for Industrial/ Product/ Furniture Design

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/max/illumination/

April animation Magazine Issue

Lots of information, tutorials, interviews gallery and most important this is absolutely free

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/ezine/apr07_issue.html

Making of Kingdom of Fruits

Making of Kingdom of Fruits in 3dsmax by the artist from Iran

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/max/fruitskingdom/

Punishment 3D challenge winners announced

Proudly announce the winners of the punishment 3D challenge which is very successful in terms of quality

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

Making of The Revenge of Snowman

I am going to try and explain the process of making the image for the Winter Challenge presented by CGArena

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/winterchallenge/snowman/

Fire Escape in Photoshop

The first step in all paintings, whether it is a character or an environment, is to lay down the basic shapes

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/photoshop/fireescape/

Caustics through mental Ray

Caustics are really great light effects that you can observe in liquids, glass objects and gems

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

CGArena: New 3D and 2D Challenge

CGArena is proud to present “Nightmare” (3D and 2D Challenge), 21 Mar 2007 - 15 May 2007, sponsored by Corel, Pixologic, Realviz, Skymatter, Hyperfocal Design, 3d.sk, ambientLight, Zoo Publishing, Strata, Vertus, TheBest 3D, Kurv Studios, Daz 3D, Environment-Textures.com, Female-anatomy-for-artist.com, human-anatomy-for-artist.com and ITs Art Magazine. We want different ideas and approaches in a more creative way.

Participate Now: http://forum.cgarena.com/viewtopic.php?t=2145

Interview with Zhang Yang

3D Modeler/ Texture Artist/ Compositor from China which is self taught and use various softwares to achieve the results

http://www.cgarena.com/archives/interviews/zhangyang/

Video Tutorial: Deforming the Head

This video tutorial shows you how to deform the head model in Zbrush and exporting/importing files from/to Maya

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/zbrush/deforminghead/

Making of Arcadia

I saw a picture of some old columns and five minutes later I had my first poor sketch on a piece of paper

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/max/arcadia/

Making of Revolution

This Image inspired by fiction story which tells a war between human beings and machines

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/maya/revolution/

Free Style Painting in Photoshop

This small photoshop tutorial utilise the History Brush to turn any picture or photo into an free style painting

http://cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/photoshop/freestylepainting/

Old Film Look

In this after effects tutorial learn how to give a old film look in just few minutes to the properly shoot new video

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/ae/oldfilmlook/

Expressions in Maya

This tutorial is very handy to create, explosions like tank explosion, asteroid explosions in maya

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/maya/expressions/

Making of Squirrel in Winter

I thought of making an image which was not too complex so I choose a good and simple idea of a squirrel facing winter

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/winterchallenge/squirrel/

Brazil GI Video Tutorial

On request of various users Aziz Khan created a Brazil GI video tutorial once again and this time with voice

http://cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/max/givraymray/brazilGI.html

CGArena February Magazine Issue Released

Like always once again CGArena proudly announce the release of free PDF magazine Issue 2 of this year

Download your copy: http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/ezine/feb07_issue.html

Interview with Andre Kutscherauer

Artist from East Germany which like to design pictures with words and not with clicks

http://www.cgarena.com/archives/interviews/andreKuts/index.html

Illuminate Interior using Exterior Light source

When it comes to lighting a 3D-scene, the light-setup can either make or break the scene's realism

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/max/hdri-vray2/

Breaking the Stone

Breaking any object and then animate the fragments manually is a tedious task so here comes dynamics
http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/max/breakingstone/

Dome Based Lighting

In this maya tutorial learn how to save a lot of rendering time using a Dome based lighting

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/maya/domebased/

My Heart Goes Hmmm..

In this valentine create a heart cloud in after effects using Particular plugin and show to your valentine

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/ae/heart/index.html

Project Setup/Management and Quality AssuranceTutorial

This tutorial for those aren´t blessed with an alienbrain server and haven't set up Asset Tracking yet [Must Read]

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/max/projectSetup/

Interview with Eric Pinkel

We talked the product designer in the npower software who is responsible for look and feel of everything

http://www.cgarena.com/archives/interviews/npower/

UV Mapping - The Easy way

In this 3ds max tutorial demonstrate how simple and precise UVmapping can be using DeepUV

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/max/uvmapping/

Architectural Visualization using HDRI and Vray

In this tutorial Illuminate an exterior architectural scene with help from Vray and a HDR image

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/max/hdri-vray/

Melting Text in Maya

In this tutorial we will explore some tools and options of fluid to create melting text effect like smoke

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/maya/meltingtext/

Interview with Tata Elxsi

Visual Computing Labs, a Division of Tata Elxsi offers services in the areas of Animation, VFX and Games

http://www.cgarena.com/archives/interviews/tataxlsi/

CGArena January07 Magazine Issue Released

After year success of the previous issues CGArena brings another free issue of PDF magazine with lots of info

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/ezine/jan07_issue.html

3d Challenge: Punishment

Proudly announce the 3d challenge themed Punishment and sponsored by Wacom, Realviz, 3d.sk, environment-texures.com, Hyperfocal Design, Duber Studio, Its Art Mag and ambientLight

http://www.cgarena.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1779

Garden of Lights

The idea came from a vision that the psychologist C.G.Jung described in his autobiography memories and this images craeted in 3ds max for the cgarena Garden challenge and won the first prize which includes prizes from coreel, realviz, hyperfocal design and GPUtech.

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/max/gardenchal/win1/

Efficient Use of Vray Camera

How do you make a picture in real life when the light is too dark? Here learn to use a vray camera efficiently

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/max/vraycamera/

Modeling, Texturing The Corridor in 3ds max

How different textures can change the mood of the scene and contribute towards a different quality altogether

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/max/corridor/

Making of Green Frog in Maya

Freelance CG artist from Italy talked about this photorealistic render which created in maya

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/maya/greenfrog/

Interview with Ralf Stumpf

Artist from Germany which won various awards in international publications for outstanding artwork

http://www.cgarena.com/archives/interviews/ralfstumpf/

Making of Its My Garden in Xfrog and 3ds max

Various softwares used to create this garden scene for CGArena challenge but main softwares was Xfrog and max

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/max/gardenchal/win2/

Making of Rage over Babylon

This tutorial will covers the major points of producing this image, starting with the planning and other major aspects

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/max/babylon/

Making of Warrior in 3ds max

Read the Project overview of a wonderful and detailed work in 3ds max by artist from venezuela

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/max/warrior/

Modeling a Punching Machine

In this tutorial work with polygon, shape merge, editable poly, spline, chamfer box and other tools

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/max/puchmachine/

Making of Elizabeth Tudor

This image created to improve digital painting technique and you start the year by taking inspiration from this artwork

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/photoshop/elizabeth/

Create Neon Light with Vray

Read the simple tutorial on creating neon lights in 3ds max using vray material and renderer by Joe Pizzini

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/max/neonlight/

Happy New Year Tutorial in After Effects

Create a wiggly text effect in After Effects and then export in flash for website banners of any occasion

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/ae/wigglytext/

Painting a Landscape in Photoshop

Small tutorial which will enable you to paint in Photoshop a basic landscape which could be thereafter detailed

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/photoshop/landscape/

Video Tutorial: Create Custom Marking Menu in Maya

Making a new marking menu is a two step process. In this video learn how to create in easy and simpliest way

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/maya/markingmenu/

Free Animation Magazine

CGArena december issue of free monthly magazine released. And available for download.

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/ezine/dec06_issue.html

Interview with Rod Seffen

Freelance modeler from Northern Ireland which using Lightwave for creating wonderful models in 3d

http://www.cgarena.com/archives/interviews/rodSeffen/

Modeling Calculator in 3dsmax

Beginners step by step detailed tutorial on how to model and texture a calculator in 3ds max

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/max/calculator/

Video Tutorial: Modeling a Beast

This beast modeled in Zbrush and will show you how model a basic face shape using Zbrush

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/zbrush/beast/

Making of Wounded Ork

Basic knowledge in 3d and intermediate knowledge required in 3ds max and Zbrush to follow this making

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/max/wondedork/

Spider Harp Tutorial in Photoshop

This picture represent a fantasy musician able to play harp on a spider web and painted in photoshop

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/photoshop/spiderharp/

Tutorial: Do you want to play with me

Choosing a right colour scheme for any artwork depends on a lot of things like mood, story and here you get it in a photoshop tutorial by artist Melanie, France

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/photoshop/wannaplay/

Fast Modeling in 3D using Photoshop

Learn how can we create curves in Photoshop and then take into any 3d application for modeling that object

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/photoshop/curves/

Ragdoll and Reator Tutorial

In this small tutorial try to explain how to use Ragdoll and Reactor Water for floating the body over water effect

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/max/ragdoll/

Making of the Photographer

Tutorial on how create a Photographer, a war journalist picture in a cartoony look created in photoshop

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/photoshop/photographer/

Making of P-40 Warhawk Pacific War

Artist Rodrigo Lloret from Spain will explain about own short movie from concept to compositing

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/maya/pacificwar/

Calculate GI and Sunlight

In this 3ds max video tutorial watch how to calculate the GI and achieve realistic results through vray, brazil and mental ray

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/max/givraymray/

Indian Studio creates a Dhoom!

Tata Elxsi give 40+ minutes of VFX (in a 147 minute feature) includes pre-visualization of all the action sequences, high-level compositing, 3D Virtual 'Set' creation, 3D character animation, CG model building and some of the most complex wire and rig removal ever.

http://www.cgarena.com/archives/news/dhoom2.html

New 3D Challenge: Winter

CGArena started new 3d challenge themed Winter sponsored by Hyperfocal Design, Craft Animations, Duber Studio, The Best 3D, Daz 3D, Vertus, AmbientLight and RPManager. You can win prizes more than $5100

http://forum.cgarena.com/viewtopic.php?t=1506

November Issue of CGArena Magazine Released

CGArena proudly announce the release of 10th issue of their free monthly magazine in PDF for CG community

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/ezine/nov06_issue.html

Garden Winners Announced

Winners of 3D challenge themed Garden are announced and winners get more than $3200 worth of prizes

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

Tutorial: Particle Planting in 3ds Max

Plant 44000 stadium chairs with 4 different materials through particle flow and maxscript

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/max/particleplanting/

Vote for Best 3d Garden Image

Cast your vote in this WIP challenge for best three garden images from the final selected six images

http://forum.cgarena.com/viewtopic.php?t=1477

Making of Pandora in Photoshop

Marta explain the workflow and share some thoughts on painting several elements of this artwork in photoshop

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/photoshop/pandora/

Review: Hollywood Camera Work

Camera Training Disk for those who want to improve their camera blocking and staging skills

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

New Commercials Added

Watch out some new commercials from companies playstation, johnnie walker, kymco, GMC added on cgarena

http://www.cgarena.com/videos/commercials/index.html

Understanding IES Lights in 3ds Max

Understand the exact working of IES lights in 3ds Max through simple and small tutorial

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/max/ieslights/

Making of Dragon Player in a PDF

Read the complete making of a short film from concept to initilization in a free downloadable version

http://cgarena.com/files/download/download.php?id=dragonSlayer.zip

Making of the Urban Environment in 3ds Max

Read the small making of the very detailed scene created by Stefan Morrell in 3ds Max

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/max/urbanenv/

Interview with Patrick Conaty

Interview with an artist which just graduated from Vancouver Film School and looking for employment

http://www.cgarena.com/archives/interviews/patrick/index.html

Autodesk invites you to spend time

Play to win with Autodesk game development pipelines. Autodesk invites you to spend time with game industry Pro

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