Troika Design Group Shines a Spotlight on Polsky Films

Troika team seamlessly blended multiple filmmaking techniques, incorporating live-action, 3D and 2D

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

Making of By the Sea

Artist decided to make a large ship hovering over the sea & inspiration comes from the classic painters & sci-fi movies

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

Digital Domain’s Game Face for ‘Assassin’s Creed II’

Digitally Enhanced Faces of Assassin Victims Haunt Viewers in Commercial for New Ubisoft Release

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

Video Tutorial: Creating Clay Render with 3ds max 2010 and Mental Ray

Take advantage of mental ray Pro Materials to create a nice clay render of the interior scene

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

Prime Focus recreates 26/7 Mumbai floods in Tum Mile with over 300 VFX shots and DI

Prime focus delivers yet another visual treat for movie titled Tum Mile with the 79 creative professionals and recreates the mumbai floods

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

Video Tutorial: Advanced Tracking in After Effects using Mocha

In this 10 min video tutorial learn how to do an advanced tracking in Adobe After Effects using the plugin Mocha. This tutorial will explain where the inbuilt AE plugin failed to track.

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

Spot: Goldfish crackers Blast Off

The animation is really cinematic, and the spots were directed by first time director, Blur's Leo Santos.

http://www.cgarena.com/videos/commercials/swf/goldfish.html

Ingenuity Engine Transforms Chris Brown in ‘I Can Transform Ya’ Music Video

Boutique visual effects studio Ingenuity Engine work on a futuristic new music video for R&B singer Chris Brown's track I Can Transform Ya

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

Making of the Rider by Christopher Adajar

Artist created a motorbike racing accident scene for the CGArena challenge and won the first prize

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

Making of Portrait of a Magic Warrior

It's all start from a doodle sketch which become a finished piece and there are no references or planning in this work.

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

3D Challaneg: Design the Mascot

You need to create a 3D mascot which represents CGArena in the graphical world, this can be realistic or toony mascot.

Prime Focus recreates Pied Piper for the new Reliance ad

The new Reliance ad featuring the superstar Hrithik Roshan in his new look which is unique in more ways than one.

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

CGArena : Video Tutorial: Showcasing the Model

In this series of tutorials Ashraf Aiad will be showcasing different ways to present your models in 3d and on web

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/mudbox/modelshowcase/showcase.html

Making of Le Rabbit

Le Rabbit can not be described as the result of an extremelly well organized and planned process.

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

Modeling Chevrolet Camaro Concept in Rhino - Part 2

This video tutorial is created by artist Vladimir from Ukraine in Rhino software but techniques applied to all 3d softwares

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/misc/camaro/chevrolet2.html

Making snow in maya 2010

In this tutorial learn how you can create a fallen accumulated snow on any object or character

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

Bonfire and Phoenix Editorial Create Short Film for IDEO’s ‘Living Climate Change’ Initiative

Bonfire and Phoenix Editorial announced that they have collaborated with global innovation and design firm IDEO on the welcome video for the Living Climate Change website

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

Modeling Chevrolet Camaro Concept in Rhino - Part 1

Artist wanted to create mulatto female in 3d and here gives you the overview of the image

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/misc/camaro/chevrolet.html

Vicon Launches Bonita

Bonita is a small, affordable optical capture camera for tracking and analyzing motion.

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

The Dreams of Street Cat

Artist will show you how he did this image in 3ds max when one cat from street enters into the apartment with sad face

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

CGArena: Animation Magazine Oct - Nov 09 Issue

Download the another interesting issue of CGArena bi-monthly free PDF magazine. Lots of informative content to explore

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/ezine/oct09_issue.html

Making of Radhey Shyam

This artwork was an abstract representation and created in 10 days using mouse

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

Interview with Francisco A. Cortina

Professional 3d artist who originally started out as a traditional artist and now having own company called Cortina Digital

http://www.cgarena.com/archives/interviews/cortina/cortina_interview.html

Matte Painting - Cleopatra Queen of Egypt

This image which is a mix of 3D geometry, photos manipulation and digital painting

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

Sony Pictures Imageworks Creates Tornado Out of Spaghetti Sauce with the Help of NVIDIA Technology

Sony Pictures Imageworks utilized NVIDIA Quadro processors to accelerate animation and vfx production of their latest hit film Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

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

Making of Junk Tree Paradise

The idea was kids who survived from the destruction of world war III and found the beauty and hope in the world

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

Portrait of Nathan in Photoshop

Artist explain the steps took while painting a portrait using Photoshop CS and Wacom Cintiq

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

Overview of Portrait of Martha

Artist wanted to create mulatto female in 3d and here gives you the overview of the image

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

Interview with Director Gary H. Lee on short Film Hector Corp.

A psychological thriller about a company, Hector Corporation, that must take extreme measures to manage their employees with some very unexpected executioners

http://www.cgarena.com/archives/interviews/gary_hlee/interview_gary.html

Making of the Artist in 3ds max

Who said only humans can be artistic, another beautiful creation of god that is animals can also be artistic specially cats

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

Creating Fire in a Particle Editor

Particles are an integral part of computer graphics, so give you some basic ideas concerning fire creation

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/misc/fire/fire_particle_editor.html

Making of Eastern Dragon Rider

This image depicts the tension and conflict between dragon and the evil rider with unique and special look

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/photoshop/dragonrider/dragon.html

Duck's Jamie Caliri earns Emmy for Title Design

DUCK Director Jamie Caliri has won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Main Title Design for the title sequence of the Steven Spielberg produced Showtime series United States of Tara handed out last night at the Creative Arts Emmys.

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

Digital Domain and Director Carl Erik Rinsch Make Art for Audi

Digital Production Studio Showcases Expertise in Complex Mechanical Imagery for Audi A4 2.0 TDI e

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

Golden Square Animates to the Live Beat for AV Pioneers, The Sancho Plan

Golden Square has just completed its collaboration with audio-visual performance-art pioneers, The Sancho Plan, to create stunningly rendered 3D animation that syncs with the band’s live drum performance

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

Importons and Irradiance Particles in 3ds Max 2010

Step by Step guide to using Irradiance Particles and Importons in 3ds Max 2010 with Hyperfocal VHDRIs

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/max/importons/irradiance.html

15 Tips and Tricks for 3ds max of the Florence Design Academy

Here you have 15 of the most used Tips & Tricks of the Florence Design Academy to avoid mistakes, errors and imperfections in your projects.

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/max/15tips/15tips_tricks.html

Making of a Chinese Girl

Artist created the chinese girl and paid most attention to eyes and mouth because these are the key areas of facial expression

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

Making of Kid by Rakesh Sandhu

Artist finds a photo of a kid on flickr and decide to create this in 3D to showcase the skills

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

Speed Sculpting - Vampire in ZBrush

This video tutorial will show you a fast way to create a Vampire inside ZBrush. These videos are speed sculpting recordings, so there is no voice over.

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

Project Overview of the Night Driver

The car in the scene I'd modelled for an advertising piece that was cancelled so I decide to complete the project for myself

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

AVSO and Offspring create another winner for Ford and JWT

This new commercial representing a new piece of advanced Ford technology

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

CGArena - Sofa Modeling in 3ds max

This will explain you how you can model this stylish modern leather sofa inside 3ds max.

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/max/sofamodeling/sofa_modeling.html

Making of La Espera

Very realistic cute baby is created by Jorge Suarez in Lightwave 9.6 and here explaining the process

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

Making the Digital Portrait of Mr. Obama

In this informative making going to walk you through the process of making digital portrait of Mr. Obama in Maya, ZBrush, Silo

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

Autodesk Software Plays Role in Creation of GI - Joe

Autodesk Software Plays Starring Role in Creation of "GI Joe" Movie VFX Studios in California, London and Canada.

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

The Embassy Re-Teams with Director Neill Blomkamp on District 9

Climactic Battle Sequence and Elaborate Exo-Suit Contributed by The Embassy Team

http://www.cgarena.com/archives/news/district9.html

Post Logic Studios Provides VFX Supervision for NBC's The Storm

Post Logic Studios Provides VFX Supervision for NBC's 'The Storm'. Prime Focus Contributes 400 VFX Shots for Two-Part Series

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

Prime Focus VFX Helps Elevate G.I. JOE: The Rise of Cobra

Contributes 124-Shots, Including Building Complex Nanomite Animation Pipeline and Orchestrating Finale Aerial Sequence

http://www.cgarena.com/archives/news/gi-joe.html

Making of Drows Vs Goblins

Draw a scene of a battle, where goblins flee in panic from drow cavalry which pursues them.

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/photoshop/drows_goblins/goblin.html

Modeling of the Dinosaur in ZBrush

When working inside ZBrush, everytime I start modeling something from Z-sphere. It is one of ZBrush’s cool features that enables fast and intuitive modeling of low poly objects.

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

Just Try to Catch this Bug

To illustrate the power of Kleenex® Anti-Viral tissue, Rhino brought to life the Flu Bug - a jittery, mischievous little guy whose M.O. is to appear out of nowhere and derail the best-laid plans

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

Making of the Game - Perry Rhodan - CGArena

In this making-of documentary we will illustrate the laborious process of creating the Perry Rhodan game.

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/misc/perry_rhodan/perry-rhodan.html

Making of Armada

Overview of the Image, Painting is all about the controlling the chaos of ideas and possibilities

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

4D takes London Eye to new Dimension

With the addition of a 4D movie to London's most popular paid-for visitor attraction to the Merlin's Entertainment London Eye

http://www.cgarena.com/archives/news/4d_londoneye.html

Making of Angelina Jolie

Artist created a beautiful actress Angelina Jolie in 3D using softwares 3ds max and ZBrush

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

New 3D Challenge: Accident

Winners will be rewarded with special prizes from Side Effects Software, Pixologic, E-on Software, Eat3D & ambientLight

http://www.cgarena.com/archives/news/accident_challenge.php

CGArena Aug - Sep 09 Issue Available

Wait is Over... another long awaited issue of the free bi-monthly PDF magazine is available with makings of talented artists

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/ezine/aug09_issue.html

Making of the Naval Officer

This image was created as a cover for the PC game for client Akella where the player had to participate in sea battles

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/painter/naval/navalofficer.html

Mudbox 2010 with MudWalker & ReLight

In these two demonstration videos look out how these free plug-ins makes your life easier inside Mudbox

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/mudbox/mudwalker-relight/intro.html

E-on Software previews Vue 8 Pro

E-on software started showcasing key new features of its upcoming Vue 8 professional solutions

http://www.cgarena.com/archives/news/vue8pro.html

Pigeon Impossible: Rendering Podcast

In this new 19th podcast Lucas talks about the most important aspect of any 3d image i.e Rendering

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/xsi/pigeonimpossible/pigeon8.html

Making of the Goddess

Artist in a mood of experiment with skills and created a sweet girl in a indian classical dancing style

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

Making of Fatjon's Performance

Artist is a big fan of Fatjon music and in this image like to show, he devoted himself into deep thinking while playing music

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

Sensori by Brizo - An Elegant Branding Video Utilizing Phantom High-Speed Camera

Integrated production/post FX house CRASH+SUES teamed with Indianapolis agency Young & Laramore to produce an impressive three-minute branding video, “Sensori by Brizo.”

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

Making of the Judith

Judith, a young widow and most unlikely savior. Strong character in ancient history painted by Marta Dahlig

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

Next Generation Modeling and Texturing

Learn production modeling techniques and workflow to creating 3d model assets and textures for next-generation games.

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/max/nex-gen-modeling/modeling1.html

Making of Space Mariner

Making of Space Mariner - In this making explain everything in parts so that you can understand how to process and organize the 3D project

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/max/spacemariner/space_mariner.html

Pigeon Podcast: Simgle Pass Lighting

This is 18th podcast from the short film Pigeon Impossible. In these podcasts Lucas Martell giving some inside tricks

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/xsi/pigeonimpossible/pigeon7.html

Creating Quick Cloth in ZBrush

In this small 5 min tutorial learn how to use simple but powerful tool inside ZBrush through which you can simulate a cloth.

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/zbrush/quick-cloth/quick-cloth.html

4Creative Launches New "House of Imagination" Brand Film for Syfy

The film features a mysterious house on a hill where a huge party is going on. VFX and web campaign is carried out at MPC

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

Making of the Gift

Carpenter wishes to give his son a gift and nothing can be better than the wooden car

CGArena - Making of the Gift

Prime Focus delivers VFX for Shortkut

Bollywood movie Shortkut beautified with some spectacular vfx delivered by Prime Focus, a leading vfx services company.

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

Modeling the Mercedes Benz 540k

In this tutorial artist will explain the steps taken in modeling the mercedes benz using 3ds max

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/max/mercedes540k/mercedes.html

Interview with John Wyland And Heiko Wenczel

Read the interview with John Wyland and Heiko Wenczel - Mackevision EVP, Head of Production and Manager Digital Division 3D

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

Vicon House of Moves adds motion

VICON House of Moves recently provided motion capture services to MPC and Zoic for high profile commercial projects

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

Worm Head Speed Sculpt in ZBrush

Speed sculpt of an alien bust. Though out these videos you will see JonnyD Artiste use ZSpheres to create his base mesh.

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/zbrush/wormhead/worm_head.html

Modeling of Coca Cola Bottle

This tutorial is intended to show you how to make a Coca-Cola bottle using Maya and some tips to improve the workflow

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/maya/cocacola/coca-cola_bottle.html

Interview with George Patsouras

Talented freelance artist from USA which think there is no such thing as talent, only hard work and determination helps

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

Animated Short: Rubbuds

Promoting safe sex as a universal message for everybody to understand regardless of their age, language, edu...

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

Transformers 2 Movie Tie-Ins

Digital Domain is also contributing vfx and character animation on a series of movie tie-in promotions for LG & Burger King

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

Back light Effect on the Footage

How to give a back light effect to a character if there is no physical light there actually to illuminate him.

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

Modeling of the Punisher

In this time lapse video, artist Valentin will show how he model the character from the movie Punisher Warzone in ZBrush

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/zbrush/punisher/punisher_modeling.html

Pigeon Impossible Podcasts - Part 6

In this video will explain the Pigeon Rig, Although the software used was XSI, the podcast is focused on CG techniques

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/xsi/pigeonimpossible/pigeon6.html

Baking ZBrush materials to Texture maps

Senior Character Artist at Vicious Cycle Software, demonstrates how to bake ZBrush materials into a texture map.

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/zbrush/baking_texturemaps/baking_texture_maps.html

Restoration of Scientific Films

Post Logic Studios Undertakes Restoration of Scientific Films for the National Archive 16mm Time-Lapse Films

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

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