Monday, April 05, 2010

Making of Cadenus and Vanessa

Cadenus and Vanessa is the title of a poem by Jonathan Swift gave rise to the name of Vanessa. Created in Photoshop and Corel Painter

Making of Cadenus and Vanessa

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Making of Batman Desertstorm

3D Artist created this image using 3ds Max and ZBrush. Everything is sculpt and modeled seperately

Making of Batman Desertstorm

Saturday, March 27, 2010

Prime Focus creates 100% CG ad for TBZ

Prime Focus created the new Tribhovandas Bhimji Zaveri ad which celebrates TBZ’s jewelry designs across decades

Prime Focus creates 100% CG ad for TBZ

Friday, March 26, 2010

Matte Painting: Making of Barbarossa

Matte Painting realized for the movie Barbarossa and artist inspired from an old painting of Rome with Castel Sant’Angelo

Matte Painting: Making of Barbarossa

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Prime Focus Animates characters for new CBI Campaign

Central bank of India roped in R.K Swamy BBDO to provide creative services to the CBI’s trio-ad campaign

Prime Focus Animates characters for new CBI Campaign

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Taylor James is cooking on Gas with First UK TV Commercial

Taylor James has completed work on its first UK TV spot. The advert, combining the use of striking CGI animation with 2D/3D visual effects.

Taylor James is cooking on Gas with First UK TV Commercial

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Custom Film Effects Helps Transport “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” From Page to Screen

Custom Film Effects handled all of the vfx and animation work for “Diary of a Wimpy Kid,” a mostly live-action adaptation of the book

Custom Film Effects Helps Transport “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” From Page to Screen

Monday, March 22, 2010

Making of Garage - CGArena

Artist like to study lighting and shading with a cartoony look, so created this artwork in maya

Making of Garage - CGArena

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Interview with Faraz Mobin

3D Artist from Delhi, which completed the course in Canada and now working in Dubai Police Headquarters

Interview with Faraz Mobin

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Making of Dust in C4D and Photoshop

Artist started this project with the sole aim of model the vintage station to familarize himself with principles od modeling and texturing

Making of Dust - Pierre Fabre

Framestore creates Photoreal CG Animals for Dante Ariola

Framestore has created photoreal CG animals doing weird and wonderful things for MJZ's Dante Ariola and Y&R New York.

Framestore creates Photoreal CG Animals for Dante Ariola

Friday, March 12, 2010

Project Overview: Sheikh Zayed

This is 3D portrait of Sheikh Zayed who was president of United Arab Emirates for 30 years

Project Overview: Sheikh Zayed

Rhino Beefs Up Feature Slate With Cop Out

Rhino has wrapped up extensive visual effects work on the Warner Brothers action-comedy Cop Out

Rhino Beefs Up Feature Slate With Cop Out

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Asylum and Smuggler Change Life Into Art

Graphic Artist, continues Samsung Mobile's overarching campaign to show off the innovative and practical uses for their smart phones in everyday life.

Asylum and Smuggler Change Life Into Art

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Interview with Oleg Koreyba

Interview with 3D Artist from Ukraine. Try to breathe as much as possible life into every 3D characters. You will enjoy the information given.

Interview with Oleg Koreyba

Monday, March 08, 2010

Modeling the Tennis Ball

In this small video tutorial, learn how to model the tennis ball in Autodesk 3ds Max. This is a beginner's level tutorial and nothing for intermediate or advanced users

Modeling the Tennis Ball

Thursday, March 04, 2010

Painting Avatar Jack Sully

Artist decide to pay a small tribute to movie Avatar and began to make a fan art of its protagonist, Jack Sully in Painter and Photoshop

Painting Avatar Jack Sully

Wednesday, March 03, 2010

Making of Le Patisserie

The inspiration for this Project was a small French restaurant, which I came across while searching the internet

Making of Le Patisserie

Tuesday, March 02, 2010

Dancing Diablo creates The Earth in 6 Days

Dancing Diablo was given a week to create the earth - as well as an eclectic galaxy of animated iconic elements that interact with it - for a :30 national brand spot for The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and marketing agency Capstrat entitled “Minds On A Mission.”

Dancing Diablo creates The Earth in 6 Days

Blind Creates second video for Raveonettes

The video, set in a fantastic illustrated world, portrays the epic journey of a heartbroken man rambling across a unique and beautifully stylized landscape

Blind Creates second video for Raveonettes

Saturday, February 27, 2010

Modeling Chevrolet Camaro Concept in Rhino - Part 12

This is final part of this video tutorial series which is created by artist Vladimir from Ukraine in Rhino software but techniques applied to all 3d softwares.

Modeling Chevrolet Camaro Concept in Rhino - Part 12

Friday, February 26, 2010

Making of Cohen the Barbarian

Artist like to create something visually pleasing for the portfolio and that gives the birth to this artwork using 3ds max and ZBrush

Making of Cohen the Barbarian

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Interview with John Martini aka Joker Martini

Talented freelance artist - John Martini aka Joker Martini which is jack of all trades and received creativity as a gift from parents

Interview with John Martini

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

MPC completes gruesome transformation and London scapes for The Wolfman

Fully animated Wolfman scenes, gruesome transformations, enhancement of live-action shots, film's climactic waterfall environment...

Details about the movie The Wolfman

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Making of in the Blue Foil in Photoshop

In this making of you will get some tips from the artist which improves your style of painting and helps you in understanding the concept

Making of in the Blue Foil

Monday, February 22, 2010

Percy Jackson and the Olympians; The Lightning Thief

MPC Vancouver provided a range of vfx and post production work for the Percy Jackson and the Olympians; The Lightning Thief

Percy Jackson and the Olympians; The Lightning Thief

Saturday, February 20, 2010

Modeling Chevrolet Camaro Concept in Rhino - Part 11

This is second last part of the most popular car modeling video series. You can't get so detailed video tutorials for free.

Modeling a Car: Video Tutorial - Part 11

Friday, February 19, 2010

Speed Painting the Portrait in Photoshop

In this speed painting tutorial, watch how artist painted this portrait in Photoshop. This tutorial also helps the beginners in refining their skills.

Speed Painting the Portrait

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Making of Iron Cat by Adam Farkas

In this making of artist would like to share with you the techniques used in the creation of the artwork, named ironcat. This is more than a making...

How to create Iron Cat by Adam Farkas

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Making of Ayasha - Indian Hero

Before start designing any character you must know the characteristics of the character that helps in developing the better character

Making of Ayasha - Indian Hero

Monday, February 15, 2010

Making of Long Journey of a Girl

Beautiful girl is looking for the magic stone to save her brother, during journey she found gentle soul trapped in the body of a monster...

Making of Long Journey

Friday, February 12, 2010

Making of Classic Living Room

Creating a photo realistic interior is always a challenge for an artist but Roger succeeded in creating that inside 3ds max

Interior Room Setup

Modeling Chevrolet Camaro Concept in Rhino - Part 10

This is tenth part of this video series where you learning the detailed modeling the chevrolet camaro concept car.

Modeling the Car

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Making of Mr Woland and the Esoteric cats

Artist like to create a bizarre character involved with magic and incredible world. This thought gave birth to this image in photoshop.

Making in Photoshop

Tuesday, February 09, 2010

Deforming Geometry with Fluids in Maya

In this 10 min video tutorial learn how you can deform the geometry using fluids. In this tutorial particles will deform the soft body and this technique can be applied in many effects.

Video Tutorial

Sunday, February 07, 2010

Animation Magazine Feb - Mar 10 Issue

Once again cgarena.com brings you another exciting and informative issue of CGArena Animation Magazine and this is absolutely free download .

Animation Magazine or Ezine

Thursday, February 04, 2010

Making of Grenat in Photoshop

Grenat color is red, from blood and not from love, as translated in popular culture – and the animal is the red eagle

Painting Grenat in Photoshop

Tuesday, February 02, 2010

Making of Where's She Looking

Generally while doing a make-up women's look in the mirror but where's she looking, that's a mistry.

Project Overview in Maya

Brickyard VFX Makes a Hole-In-One for Titleiest

Brickyard created animated overlays that bring each golfer’s yardage book to life on screen

Spot Focus

Saturday, January 30, 2010

Modeling Chevrolet Camaro Concept in Rhino - Part 8

Another part available from 14 parts video series where you learn how to model a real looking car and where details are really necessary

Modeling Chevrolet Camaro Concept in Rhino - Part 8

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Making of Aramaki, Section 9

Inspiration taken from the 2d anime series and here you can see the 3D version with explanation of steps

Making of Aramaki, Section 9

Monday, January 25, 2010

Making of Alfa Romeo Competizione C8 Spyder Studio

Artist attracted to this beauty and decide to create in 3d to improve my techniques of modeling and rendering

Making of Alfa Romeo Competizione C8 Spyder Studio

Friday, January 22, 2010

Making of Mark 13 in Photoshop

Image of a robot which destroying the city. This image is a mix between composing and painting, created by an artist from Germany

Why Robot destroying the City?

Modeling Chevrolet Camaro Concept in Rhino - Part 7

Now seventh part of this wonderful video series is available to learn the modeling of car. If you still can't learn then nothing can be done.

Modeling Chevrolet Camaro Concept in Rhino - Part 7

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Making of Evil Gremlin

After taking inspiration from the movie, artist created this image in 3d. This is not a step by step making but a project overview

Evil Gremlin - Project Overview

Monday, January 18, 2010

Interview with Lee Perry-Smith

29 years old freelance artist from UK which acting as a consultant for VFX studios

Interview with Lee Perry-Smith

Modeling Chevrolet Camaro Concept in Rhino - Part 6

This is sixth part of this video tutorial series which is created by artist Vladimir in Rhino software but techniques applied to all 3d softwares"

Modeling Chevrolet Camaro Concept in Rhino - Part 6

Thursday, January 14, 2010

How to create a Sci-fi scene - Making of Primateran

The idea was to create a huge blue Planet in a dust cloud with meteor field and ships, those like to create sci-fi scenes will love this

How to create a Sci-fi scene - Making of Primateran

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Making of Red Hulk in ZBrush

This character is an evil version of Hulk and he is more aggressive and intelligent, besides having all the abilities of Hulk

How Rulk was made

Friday, January 08, 2010

Making of Homage in Photoshop

This is a homage to Bill Watterson and his creation. In this making I will share my techniques and will walk you through the steps and settings taken

Read the Making of Homage

Wednesday, January 06, 2010

Making of DinoMonster

Idea of a dinosaurized man comes after seeing Jurassic park. The difficult part was to give them all distinctive look, and again, to keep the visuals together

Making of DinoMonster

Beeline - Rhino creates buzz in Russian Market

Rhino crafted a unique cast of animated animals from scratch in stylized CG for the Russian telecommunications company Beeline

Rhino creates buzz in Russian Market

Monday, January 04, 2010

Making Of Balcón Mediterráneo - CGArena

Artist like the real pictures of Balcón Mediterráneo so much, he decided to create the 3D version in Maya

Read the making

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Making of Did you fill up the tank on mars?

Now the aliens spaceship crashing on the earth because of no fuel, is this sign of Global Warming or end of the world is near?

Project Overview

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Modeling Chevrolet Camaro Concept in Rhino - Part 4

This is fourth part of this video tutorial series which is created by artist Vladimir in Rhino software but techniques applied to all 3d softwares

Modeling Chevrolet

Prime Focus creates titles for Bollywood Movie "Kurbaan"

Prime Focus has not only worked on the opening titles of the film but also supplied a range of state of art equipment

Read about Kurbaan

Thursday, December 24, 2009

2010 CG Calendar Wallpapers- Free Download

Download the exclsuive wallpaper calendar 2010. Artwork created by various artists from around the world

2010 Wallpaper Calendar

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Interview with Kyle Lambert

Artist spent most of the childhood and education drawing in pencil and learning to mix color

Read the Interview

Monday, December 21, 2009

Prime Focus Adds Graphic Dimension to ‘Avatar’

Stereographics Bring Ops Center to Buzzing Life in Epic James Cameron Film

Read the details

Friday, December 18, 2009

Rihanna Digital Painting

Artist talk about how he painted this image of Rihanna, this is not a step by step guide but overview of the process

Overview of Rihanna

Thursday, December 17, 2009

MAXON CINEMA 4D Takes Blu-ray Star Trek Out of This World

VFX Artist Max Gabl to Digitally Recreate Original Matte Paintings in Stunning High Definition for Star Trek: The Original Series Re-mastered

Read the Story

Creating Rock Arch in ZBrush

This is a tutorial about making a rock arch and then prepare the model for game engine

Read this detailed tutorial

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Video Tutorial: Creating an Alien Helmet in ZBrush

In this video ZBrush Educator Martin Knapp, shows how quickly you can create an alien helmet using ZSpheres, Polypaint, and Polygroups.

Watch the Tutorial

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Making of Clara in photoshop

Artist explained how he draw the pictures that mean that its not necessarily the best or the most correct way to paint

Read this tutorial

Monday, December 14, 2009

Create Sea Anemones using Hair and Fur

Create a sea anemones using hair and fur in 3ds max, a modifier that grows hair and fur over any object

Read this tutorial

Thursday, December 10, 2009

CGArena: Animation Magazine Dec - Jan 10 Issue

CGArena Animation Magazine Dec-Jan 2010 Issue Available for free download

Download the Issue

Wednesday, December 09, 2009

Absolute gets Naked for Valley Lodge Music Video

Absolute temporarily suspended its no-shirt, no-shoes, no-service policy to finish the latest video for Brooklyn-based power pop band Valley Lodge

Watch this video and read about this video

Tuesday, December 08, 2009

Making of Halloween Witch in Photoshop

Amber Chen from Georgia explained the process involved in creation of the illustration called Halloweeen Witch

Read the making

Stardust Lights Up Holiday TV Campaign for RadioShack

Playful and Irreverent Eight-Spot Effort via Butler, Shine, Stern and Partners Directed, Designed, Animated, Edited and Finished Entirely by Stardust

Read and Watch Videos Here

Monday, December 07, 2009

Prime Focus Team delivers 664 VFX shots and full DI for Paa

Paa tells the story of an intelligent and witty 13 year old boy, Auro (Amitabh Bachchan), who suffers from progeria, an extremely rare genetic disorder characterized by premature and rapid aging at an early age.

Read the Details Here

Friday, December 04, 2009

Bent Creates Abundant World For Tetra Pak

The playful :30 animation showcases Bent's ability to handle challenging projects with multiple angles - in this case developing an approachable spokes-character to deliver a serious environmental message and designing detailed, super-productive landscapes to create a humorous overtone.

Read the Spot Focus

Making of Gunnery Sergeant Thomas Highway - CGArena

Artist inspire with the character of the movie and create this portrait in 3ds max, Mudbox

Read the making

Thursday, December 03, 2009

Prime Focus completes new ad for top African brand

Prime Focus completing a colorful commercial for African brand Crown-Berger

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

Tuesday, December 01, 2009

Making of the Alien Nature

Artist will explain a little bit about the workflow to create the picture using Maya, ZBrush, Renderman

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/maya/alienature/alien-nature.html

Monday, November 30, 2009

Interview with Marta Dahlig

Female artist which live in poland and working as a media planner at MPG media agency

http://www.cgarena.com/archives/interviews/marta/marta-dahlig_interview.html

Friday, November 27, 2009

Making of the Toilet - CGArena

This unfortunate incident happened with my friend, so I decide to create this image for the challenge themed accident

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

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Modeling Chevrolet Camaro Concept in Rhino - Part 3

This is third part of this video tutorial series which is created by artist Vladimir in Rhino but techniques applied to all 3d softwares

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/misc/camaro/chevrolet3.html

Prime Focus VFX Adds Sparkle to The Twilight Saga: New Moon

Prime Focus contributed a majority of the film’s visual effects, including CG water, atmospherics, CG matte painting and environment work

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

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Making of Black Pearl Treasure

In this tutorial artist will show you how he created this Black Pearl Treasure image in Modo

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/misc/blackpearl/pearl.html

Friday, November 20, 2009

Interview with Renderosity

Renderosity has been an online community for over ten years and offer content that is produced in all major 3D application

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

Thursday, November 19, 2009

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

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

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

Monday, November 16, 2009

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

Saturday, November 14, 2009

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

Friday, November 13, 2009

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

Thursday, November 12, 2009

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

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

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

Friday, November 06, 2009

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

Thursday, November 05, 2009

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

Wednesday, November 04, 2009

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

Sunday, November 01, 2009

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

Friday, October 23, 2009

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

Thursday, October 15, 2009

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

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Vicon Launches Bonita

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

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

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

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