2D Compositing in After Effects

Learn how to add a depth in a still images and this simple trick will help you in adding life in your boring still images

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/ae/2dcompositing/2Dcompositing.html

Making of Meet You

Artist from China will share the production process of the very appreciated image created in Maya and ZBrush

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

2k sports Team up with Vicon

VICON T160 motion capture system was deployed to capture pro hockey players in an outdoor shoot

http://www.cgarena.com/archives/news/vicon_2k.html

Interview with John Hayes

Senior Lead Character Artist from Sega studio will share experiences with you, currenty working on the Ironman 2

http://www.cgarena.com/archives/interviews/johnhayes/johnhayes.html

Timelapse Making in Mudbox

Wayne Robson gave a Mudbox Masterclass and he showed the creation from nothing to final render

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/mudbox/timelapsemaking/mudbox2010-timelapse-making.html

Pigeon Impossible Podcasts are Back

After long time Director/Animator Lucas Martell brings another set of informative podcasts which also gives info in general

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/xsi/pigeonimpossible/pigeon5.html

Making of Hakara

Artist decide to create a sexy girl with little clothing and weapons using 3ds max and ZBrush [contains artistic nudity]

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

Frantic Films VFX Battles John Woo's Red Cliff

Epic Chinese-Lang. Film Features Massive Naval Battle Sequence Comprising 2,500 Boats Populated with an Army of 70,000

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

CGArena: June-July 09 Magazine Issue

With all your love and best wishes CGArena brings another issue of the bi-monthly free PDF magazine for download

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/ezine/june09_issue.html

Interview with Alessandro Baldasseroni

Meet with the 35 years old self-taught senior character artist at Blur Studio. Artist work surely inspire you

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

Fast Glossy Render in 3ds max using Vray

This video tutorial shows you one of the ways of speeding up renders of glossy surfaces in 3ds max using Vray

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/max/fast_glossy/fast_glossy_render_vray.html

Making of Journey Across the Desert

Artist wanted to paint an exotic open desert landscape and imbue with a sense of mystery

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/photoshop/journey_desert/journey-desert.html

House of Moves captures Dancers

VICON House of Moves recently provided motion capture services for the Black Eyed Peas music video

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

Car Wheel Rotation Expression Tutorial

Learn how to rotate the car wheels according to the movement of the car using expressions in After Effects

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/ae/car-wheel/car-wheel.html

Mapping Procedures: 3ds max & ZBrush

Learn how to import and export between the two powerful softwares i.e 3ds max and ZBrush

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/max/mappingprocedures/mapping-procedures.html

Global Illumination and Final Gather in Mental Ray

In this video, from “Rendering with mental ray in 3ds max 2010”, learn how to combine two of mental ray’s most powerful features, Global Illumination and Final Gather. Discover how to use these two indirect illumination algorithms together in order to render photo-realistic images fast and easy.

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/max/i3d/gi_fg_2010.html

Making of Girl's Experience

Artist like to create some drunk women with little erotic or lesbian tingle and he successful in the attempt [contains nudity]

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

Making of Jeannie in Pictures

Have a look at the image process in images for the image Jeannie created by artist Michael Hideux in Photoshop

http://www.cgarena.com/gallery/2d/description/jeannie.html

Making of the Spider

Artist wanted to do animation of mechanical insect, so unknowingly he created the spider

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

Create Leather Material

Florence Design Academy brings another informative tutorial which teach you how to create realistic leather material

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/max/leather/leather_material.html

Convert Footage from Black and White to Color

In this 9 min video tutorial learn how to convert a black and white footage to colored footage in Adobe After Effects

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/ae/bwtocolor/bwtocolor.html

Making of Dream

Artist Alexey Kashpersky will explain the process involved in creation of the image Dream in ZBrush [Contains Nudity]

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

Import and Turntable animation in UE 3

In this demonstration we go through a few different ways of getting your work and create turntable animation

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/misc/ue3/ue3_import_turntable.html

Neoclassic Livingroom Lighting and Rendering

In this tutorial we will investigate the render and lighting adjustment for neo-classical room design using maxwell renderer

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

Making of the Countess

She supposed to walk with an air of nobility and importance about her. Her clothing has to convey the feeling of frivolity and fabrics

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

Making of HAL Tejas: Indian Air Force Fighter Aircraft

In this tutorial artist creating a indian air force fighting aircraft in 3ds max with the help of blueprints

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/max/hal-tejas/aircraft.html

Making of Mrs. Pear

In this mini tutorial artist like to show briefly how he modeled and textured Mrs Pear in max and mudbox

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/max/mrs_pear/pear.html

Making of Obidos

This work was inspired by a few personal photos from Obidos from a street lost in the corners of this village

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

Making of Dead Angels

Thrilling digital artwork showing the close encounter of the hero and a long extinguished angel race

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/max/dead_angels/dead-angels.html

Sci-Fi Environment Concept Painting

Using the example of ScfiFi Environment Concept, artist will explain the process of finalize the painting

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/photoshop/scifi/scifi.html

Interview with Jason Edwards

3D artist from UK which dont like to work as a freelancer and due to heavy price tag on Maya, considering making the move

http://www.cgarena.com/archives/interviews/jason-edwards/jason-edwards_interview.html

Making of Gordon Ramsay - Caricature

Explained the process of modeling the hot tempered chef, Gordon Ramsay - Caricature in Maya

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/maya/gordonramsay/ramsay.html

Head Sculpting Techniques in Mudbox

In this demonstration we go through the head sculpting techniques of Rod Seffen in Mudbox 2009

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/mudbox/head_sculpting/sculpting-techniques.html

Making of Set out for lover

Its a story about love, expectation and courage. When lights come through the darkness, they will meet again.

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/misc/setoutforlover/setoutforlover.html

Making of Birth in Photoshop

Artist choose to depict the goddess of beauty, Venus and paint a beautiful real woman in Photoshop [contains nudity]

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/photoshop/birth/birth.html

Rendering through Indigo in Cinema4D

In this tutorial learn how can you use free renderer Indigo to generate realistic images in Cinema4D

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/misc/indigo/indigo-cinema4d.html

Frantic Films VFX takes on Dragonball

Award-winning VFX studio Frantic Films VFX, has contributed 334 shots to the feature film "Dragonball: Evolution"

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

Making of the Prolapsed Eye

The initial sketch of this image is created by Friend and Fausto created this image in 3D using ZBrush and Maya

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/zbrush/prolapsed/prolapsed-eye.html

Making of the Young Girl

This young and sad girl is created by the korean artist using 3ds max and ZBrush, here explained the process

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/max/young-girl/girl.html

Advanced Multi-channel Texturing

Ziv explained the unique texturing method which he used in the image Blood Knight created in 3ds max

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/max/adv-texturing/texturing1.html

CGArena: Apr-May 09 Animation Magazine is Online

Wait is over, once again your favourite magazine is available for download with more than 70 pages of exclusive content

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/ezine/apr09_issue.html

Making of the Prince

A frog is not a complicated character and it has it's certain charm and I modeled using Maya and ZBrush

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

Spot: Endless Summer Garden

CRASH+SUES brought fully animated spot for Bailey Nurseries that transports viewers through a beautiful garden

http://www.cgarena.com/archives/news/endless-summer_spot.html

Lighting and Materials inside 3ds max using Vray

These tutorials helps you in understanding the lights and materials settings from beginners to advanced level using vray

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/max/giorgio_videos/light-materials/lights-materials.html

Making of Tidus in Maya

Artist impressed with the Final Fantasy characters so he tried to create Tidus in Maya and ZBrush

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

Making of the Cursed Pirate

Cursed Pirate is a part of a scene where two characters are present but for Making of, focusing mainly on the Sea Creature

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/maya/cursedpirate/pirate.html

Autodesk introduces 3ds max 2010

Autodesk announced the introduction of 3ds Max 2010- the latest version of its 3D modeling, animation and rendering product- offering nearly 350 additional features

http://www.cgarena.com/archives/news/3dsmax2010.html

Interview with Scott Eaton

Scott Eaton is an artist, TD and anatomy consultant residing in London and working as Senior TD and Modeling Supervisor at Framestore

http://www.cgarena.com/archives/interviews/scotteaton/scotteaton_interview.html

Model the Ironman Helmet in 3ds max

This is not a step by step procedure of modeling the ironman helmet. This tells the advanced concepts about modeling

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/max/ironman_helmet/helmet.html

Normal Mapping Workflow in ZBrush

In these 11 video tutorials you will understand about the normal mapping workflow in ZBrush

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

Making of Classical Girl

Artist from china make the best efforts to show the oriental beauty in the image Classical Girl

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/maya/classicalgirl/classical-girl.html

Multi Feature Displacement in Maya

In this demonstration we go through creating displacement maps and rendering them in Maya 8.5.

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/maya/displacement/multi-displacement.html

Making of Ashoan

In this making explained the entire process of creating this particular image from the first step to the final result

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

Making of Mech Dragon Battle

Artist created the Mech Dragon Battle using Photoshop and here explaining the whole process

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/photoshop/dragonbattle/mech-dragon-battle.html

Speed Sculpt: An Amphi Man

Jesse uses ZBrush brush, painting and posing tools to create a toad type character with some human qualities.

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/zbrush/pixozbrush/amphibious/zbrush-sculpt-amphibious-man.html

Making of Say cheese

In this image, artist make the dirty flooded water bathroom and fish tries to survive there in between of leaked pipes

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

New Spot Story - Not For Sale

CRASH+SUES created a spellbinding 60-second spot informing viewers that slavery still exists

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

Making of the Lost City in 3ds max

In this making artist will explain the techniques and tricks used to create a landscape city using free plugin Greeble

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

Speed Sculpting the Monster

These speed sculpting recordings shows a fast way to create a monster inside ZBrush, there is no voiceover.

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/zbrush/speed_monster/sculpt_monster_zbrush.html

Using Subsurface Scattering Shaders

In this video, we will look at how to work with the subsurface scattering shader that comes with SOFTIMAGE

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/xsi/i3d/subsurface-scattering-shaders.html

Making Random Wires using Pflow

This video tutorial will explain you how you can create a random wires using Pflow inside 3ds max

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/max/pflowires/pflow_wires.html

Making of the Alley

This image in 3ds max was created to be used as the front cover of a London based band Tabloid

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

Interview with Feng Zhu

In this interview we will talk about Feng Zhu Design School in Singapore and take the tips for the artists

http://www.cgarena.com/archives/interviews/feng-zhu/fengzhu_interview.html

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Making of Twisted Mind of Puyuh

Happy to share my techniques and will walk you through the many steps from initial conceptual work to final rendering

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

Video Interview with Daniel Menard

A video interview with project lead Daniel Menard about the Half-Life 2 Mod Eternal Silence

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

Review: Sony PSP 3004

Where artists can play games in their free time because all work and no play makes you a dull boy

http://www.cgarena.com/archives/reviews/psp3004_review.html

Making of Hecate

Hecate is the Greek goddess of the crossroads. She is usually seen with two ghost hounds that were said to serve her.

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

Prime Focus provides VFX in CC2C

Prime Focus provides the visual effects shots for Bollywood film Chandni Chowk to China and co-produced by Warner Bros

http://www.cgarena.com/archives/news/cc2c.html

Mesh Extraction in ZBrush

How to create a new geometry from the existing geometry using the mesh extraction technique in ZBrush

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

Making of the Standing Beauty

In this project overview artist try to reproduce the style of classical black and white photographs

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/maya/beauty/index.html

Video Interview with Mike Tomaino

An interview with Mike Tomaino about his open-source level creation program Platinum Arts Sandbox

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

Mudbox 2009: Quickstart Series - Part 8

In these video tutorials you will learn about 32bit displacement, Mudbox to Vray (32bit displacement) and preparing mirrored UV

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/mudbox/mudbox2009/index8.html

Making of the Incredible Hulk

In this making artist will show you common workflow used in the game and movie industry while creating characters

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

Introduction to Expressions in XSI

Learn the basics of expressions, linked parameters, and custom property sets in Softimage/XSI

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/xsi/noesis_xsi/xpressions.html

Making of the Mother Love

In this image concept was to show a love and humanity between the rough stone mother and child statue

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

Blue Cross Blue Shield Campaign

MAKE, Minneapolis based design and animation firm collaborated with Swanson Russell to create first completely animated campaign for Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS.)

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

Making of the Royal Assassin

Short tutorial by an artist on how he painted the illustration from start to finish in 15 hours

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

Sculpting Ears in Mudbox 2009

In this 9 min video tutorial from Wayne Robson learn how you can sculpt the ears easily inside Mudbox 2009

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/mudbox/mudbox2009/index7.html

Learn Sculpting in ZBrush: Part 8

In this video tutorial will cover the Painting with pixels, using zapplik and project mastes techniques in ZBrush

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/zbrush/sculpting_series/index_part8.html

Making of Beauty on the Bed

Project overview of the winning image in the 3d challenge, won hearts and inspire the many artists worldwide

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