Renowned Photographer Embraces 3D Technology

Finesse and elegance of Rene Staud's photography mixed with F_Box Picture Shooter's cutting edge precision delivers the latest edge in 3D style

Renowned Photographer Embraces 3D Technology

BENT Creates Lucha Libre Legend with TAXI 2

Four-inch-tall CG animated mexican wrestler selected for a Canadian cell phone company's spokesman

BENT Creates Lucha Libre Legend with TAXI 2

Making of Aston Martin V8 Vantage

In this making artist will focus more on the lighting and rendering of the Aston Martin V8 Vantage

Making of Aston Martin V8 Vantage

Making of Mercedes Benz CLS550 on the Road

Artist going to share the secrets of how he modeled and rendered the Mercedes-Benz CLS 550

Making of Mercedes Benz CLS550 on the Road

Cloth Driven Hair Dynamics Video Tutorial - CGArena

In this 6 minute tutorial you will learn how to use a cloth simulator to drive the simulation of your hair setup.

Cloth Driven Hair Dynamics Video Tutorial - CGArena

Playful, Animated Campaign for HealthPartners

Sometimes the most complex concepts are most effectively conveyed with simple yet captivating imagery

Playful, Animated Campaign for HealthPartners

Bent Image Lab, TRIS3CT Create “The Right Blend” of Animation

Bent Image Lab's unique CG animation for "The Right Blend," TRIS3CT's spot for Scott Naturals paper products, has attracted quite a bit of attention in recent months.

Bent Image Lab, TRIS3CT Create “The Right Blend” of Animation

How to make a Weaved Pattern

In this tutorial learn how to create a weaved pattern for chairs inside 3ds max. This is a step by step tutorial, which you can follow easily.

How to make a Weaved Pattern

Gears of War 3 Trailer

.75 teaser was created within the game engine using a production pipeline Digital Domain developed on previous “Gears of War” efforts.

Gears of War 3 Trailer

How to Render with 3ds Max 2011 - Video Tutorial

In this 10 min video tutorial, Mario Malagrino from Florence Design Academy will explain you how to render with 3ds max 2011

How to Render with 3ds Max 2011 - Video Tutorial

Eco-Friendly Oil? DUCK Will Make You Believe

Kompost drew from a broad toolbox to create this vibrant world, using Maya, Real Flow, mental ray, After Effects and Mudbox.

Eco-Friendly Oil? DUCK Will Make You Believe

Making of Call It by Ed Lester Reyes

After watching the movie No Country for Old Men, artist decide to paint this image to excercise and study the details.

Making of Call It by Ed Lester Reyes

12 Beautiful Girls painted by Digital Artists

Here are the collection of 12 beautiful girls painted by digital artists using 2D softwares

12 Beautiful Girls painted by Digital Artists

New Ford Campaign

Shot all the trucks in live action rather than CG and then footage was rotoscoped and tracked to work with the 3D typography

New Ford Campaign

Making of Ash and Sam in Photoshop

Ash the hero with his deadite zombie sidekick victorious over a pile of zombies or deadites, painted as a illustration for a game mag

Making of Ash and Sam in Photoshop

Brickyard VFX Makes Dreams Come True for Mitsubishi

Brickyard VFX recently created CG frogs that appear alongside live counterparts in a new fairytale-inspired commercial for Mitsubishi

Brickyard VFX Makes Dreams Come True for Mitsubishi

Interview with Nicolas Crombez

He is a freelance graphic designer, teacher, create skins for audio projects and recently created a 30000 pixels wide panorama image for album

Interview with Nicolas Crombez

Stunning Trailer For Ubisoft Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Future Soldier™ by Asylum

Ubisoft's new Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Future Soldier trailer gave Asylum the opportunity to shine at what it does best

Stunning Trailer For Ubisoft Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Future Soldier™ by Asylum

CGArena: Animation Magazine Apr - May 10 Issue

Apr - May 10 Issue Articles

* Interview with Chris Nichols

* Photoshop: Making of Be My Valentine

* 3ds Max: Making of Waiting

* ZBrush: Making of Reichskrone

* Photoshop: Public Transportation

* Gallery - Showcase of latest 3D inspiring art


CGArena: Animation Magazine Apr - May 10 Issue

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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

Making of Batman Desertstorm

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

Making of Batman Desertstorm

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2010 CG Calendar Wallpapers- Free Download

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

2010 Wallpaper Calendar

Interview with Kyle Lambert

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

Read the Interview

Prime Focus Adds Graphic Dimension to ‘Avatar’

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

Read the details

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

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

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

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

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

CGArena: Animation Magazine Dec - Jan 10 Issue

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

Download the Issue

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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