Sky 360: Stereo Film

MPC has joined forces with Sky Creative to create a stunning stereo campaign to promote their film channel

Sky 360: Stereo Film

Mi Utilizes Craft Director Studio to Create Realistic Trailer for "NASCAR The Game 2011"

So, why shouldn't an animated trailer be completed in the same way the product is intended to be played?

Mi Utilizes Craft Director Studio to Create Realistic Trailer for "NASCAR The Game 2011"

Video Tutorial: Glowing Material

Glowing materials are very useful to create light effects. For example a neon-light effect. This kind of material is a light-emitting material.

Video Tutorial: Glowing Material

Making of Matte Paintings

From the initial concept (the Look-Design) to the finished painting. What makes it special is that it you see in time-lapse how the pictures are put together

Making of Matte Paintings

Production Focus and Tips: The Undertals

The purpose of creating the Undertals was to have a pre-production package to present to eventual investors and producers in order to establish a co-production opportunity and produce “The Undertals” as a television series.

Production Focus and Tips: The Undertals

Spot: Whirlpool Cabrio

This assignment came with a small budget and an even smaller window of time in which it needed to be created - two things that don't naturally lend themselves to Super Bowl pre-game-worthy production values

Spot: Whirlpool Cabrio

Developing and Optimizing Games for Netbooks

Whether you’re developing a new game or have an existing game that you want to port to the netbook platform, it’s important to know how to optimize it.

Developing and Optimizing Games for Netbooks

Making of Revenge of the Bride

This tutorial will explain how to do the face painting and how details can change your final output

Making of Revenge of the Bride

CGArena: Animation Magazine Feb - Mar 11 Issue

CGArena Ezine new issue is available for free download for all the registered users. Download your copy now.

CGArena: Animation Magazine Feb - Mar 11 Issue

Handyman world created in CGI for Mercedes

Mercedes has chosen CGI as the perfect tool to showcase their advertising campaign for the new range of Vito vans.

Handyman world created in CGI for Mercedes

Making of Speed

Project started directly in ZBrush 4, without having a very clear vision about how the subject will look like and without making any sketches

Making of Speed

Making of Nemesis by Girish Srinivasagopalan

This project was a fun,experimental and a learning one but had to maintain the look and feel from the concept art

Making of Nemesis by Girish Srinivasagopalan

NHL/Stan Lee Superhero Franchise titled The Guardian Project

HOM and Stan Lee develop a short film as part of their launch efforts for new superhero franchise titled The Guardian Project

NHL/Stan Lee Superhero Franchise titled The Guardian Project

Video Tutorial: Using MentalRay Proxy

In this video tutorial you will learn how to use Mental ray proxy to decrease your rendering time and enhance your work in large scene

Video Tutorial: Using MentalRay Proxy

Project Overview: Manchester United Stars in Turkish Airlines Campaign

Taylor James’ expertise was able to produce this striking image by combining CGI and photography with creative direction and retouching under one roof.

Project Overview: Manchester United Stars in Turkish Airlines Campaign

Making of Waiting for Tonight

By skilfully using the mouse, months of practice and hours of work and patience, you are sure to achieve considerable success

Making of Waiting for Tonight

Blind Revs Up for THQ

Inspired by classic Hollywood chase sequences, MX vs ATV Alive Announce is a thrilling, :60 ride through a stylized Motocross race course

Blind Revs Up for THQ

Framestore Rebuilds Battersea Power Station for Barclays

Framestore had the mighty task of creating a photoreal CG environment where the Tate Modern meets Battersea Power Station

Framestore Rebuilds Battersea Power Station for Barclays

Making of Corey Loving Hulk

Enjoy this walkthrough for one of Marvel’s most known characters, the incredible Hulk

Making of Corey Loving Hulk

Pflow + Rigid Body Tutorial

In this 3 minutes video tutorial, artist will show you how he created the falling rocks from the sky and break apart when touched the ground

Pflow + Rigid Body Tutorial

Making of Eddy

In this tutorial artist will explain how he created a realistic image of human using camera projection technique

Making of Eddy

Launch of Online CG Store

On the completion of 5 years of CGArena, please allow us the pleasure of inviting you to the opening of our Online CG Store. Currently, in this store you will find the software’s, plug-ins, 3d models, mocap files etc...at guaranteed low price. Hope to see you at www.cgarena.com/store

Interview with Chris Southall (Technical Direcor SEGA)

Talked to Chris Southall, technical director at SEGA, about how Formula 1 and other racing games started his engine and got him interested in game development.

Interview with Chris Southall (Technical Direcor SEGA)

References/ Textures Free Download

Here we are posting some high quality reference images for free download which are submitted by artist Giorgio Luciano from Italy.

References/ Textures Free Download

Geon Team delivers 150 VFX shots for The Warrior's Way

Geon studios delivered a number of sequences with invisible effects; from retiming, split comps, BG set extensions, cleanup etc

Geon Team delivers 150 VFX shots for The Warrior's Way

3D Character Animation for Global Cross Platform Campaign

Photorealistic chameleon, seen sitting in an ‘exotic’ virtual environment within a main computer screen flicking his tongue and seizing other smaller computer screens

3D Character Animation for Global Cross Platform Campaign

Journey through a Dream World

It is set to a haunting musical composition and prose poem, performed by Gabriel Byrne and scored to a haunting musical composition

Journey through a Dream World

Making of Potion of Gala

In this tutorial you will read about the workflow of shading and lighting for animation projects in a studio

Making of Potion of Gala

Short Film: The Deep

The Deep, metal objects of the past come to life in the depths of the sea. This film is with a darker and more mysterious tone than in his previous films.

Short Film: The Deep

How to remain calm, despite what's about to happen to your Chrome notebook

A glorious parade of laptop destroying fun, driven by some helpful hints about using Chrome notebooks

How to remain calm, despite what's about to happen to your Chrome notebook

Blind and jelly Enter an Auto Designer’s Mind for Audi and BBH

Blind and jelly Enter an Auto Designer\'s Mind for Audi and BBH and create this beautiful and creative spot. Must Watch for all artwork

Blind and jelly Enter an Auto Designer’s Mind for Audi and BBH

Download 2011 Wallpaper Calendar - Free Download

Free Download the 2011 wallpaper calendar. Images chosen by the artists for the artists to fill your desktop with inspirational artwork

Download 2011 Wallpaper Calendar - Free Download

TRON: Evolution -- Game Developers Go Hollywood

TRON was the first movie to have a hit video game tie-in at the arcade, which seamlessly connected the film universe with the real world’s burgeoning video game industry

TRON: Evolution -- Game Developers Go Hollywood

Unreal Engine 3 Brings Chadam to Life on Web Video

Unreal Engine 3 , which powers everything from Gears of War 2 to BioShock 2, is now making the migration to Hollywood through Chadam

Unreal Engine 3 Brings Chadam to Life on Web Video

Top 20 Car Tutorials in 3D

Here are the collection of 20 car tutorials in which some include modeling, texturing, rendering and lighting and which are created by digital artists in 3D.

Top 20 Car Tutorials in 3D

Making of Nasir al Molk Mosque

Artist explained how he made the interior shot of this beautiful Iranian mosque using 3ds Max

Making of Nasir al Molk Mosque

Spot: Footsteps - Covering 300 million years in 60 Seconds

Motion Theory director create a heart-pounding pursuit across time for Audi that proves progress is more than a philosophy – it’s a force of nature.

Spot: Footsteps - Covering 300 million years in 60 Seconds

Brickyard VFX is Right on 'Target' with New Holiday Campaign

Artist owned-and-operated bi-coastal digital studio Brickyard VFX recently completed work on Target’s campaign

Brickyard VFX is Right on 'Target' with New Holiday Campaign

Making of Batmobile in 3ds Max

Artist sharing the process of modeling the vehicle called Batmobile in 3ds Max

Making of Batmobile in 3ds Max

What are these things in 3d?

There are few questions which always rise in forum like what is 3d graphics, modeling, which softwares. So, in this article you will get the answer of those

What are these things in 3d?

Winter Fantasies for Infiniti

To promote Infiniti’s Winter Sales Event, the festive commercials highlight the Infiniti G Sedan’s ability to handle the most challenging driving conditions

Winter Fantasies for Infiniti

High-Spirited Holiday Spots

Visual effects company Chemical Effects wrapped up its ‘launch’ year with a series of high-spirited holiday spots

High-Spirited Holiday Spots

CGArena: Animation Magazine Dec - Jan 11 Issue

CGArena Animation Magazine Dec - Jan 2011 Issue Available for free download

CGArena: Animation Magazine Dec - Jan 11 Issue

Making of The Ubri

This is a step by step creation process of the image The Ubri using ZBrush 4

Making of The Ubri

Making of The Cordoba Mosque

Artist shared how he created the detailed mosque in spain through online photos and self photos

Making of The Cordoba Mosque

Interview with Escape Studios

85% of the people who take Escape Studios VFX and compositing courses get jobs within 12 months after graduating

Interview with Escape Studios

Stylish 404 Festival Opener

Nice Shoes has created a glimmering, retro-futuristic opening identity for touring global electronic arts event 404 Festival

Stylish 404 Festival Opener

Making of Ganesha - God of Wisdom

When artist finally summed up enough courage to begin this gigantic work, he decide to create a detailed statue of lord Ganesha

Making of Ganesha - God of Wisdom

Making of the Rest

This is a picture made only for fun and without references, using only the artist imagination, except in the flag on the jacket

Making of the Rest

Making of Amazon Warrior

A tall young woman with slender figure but at the same time looking like a strong warrior. Read the project overview in ZBrush.

Making of Amazon Warrior

Making of Yin Yang of World Hunger

Enough food is produced in the world today to feed everyone, but it’s not the case... That’s the best way to see the total failure of our actual human societies

Making of Yin Yang of World Hunger

Going absolutely Naked

If you're tired of watching music videos featuring people with clothes on, or, worse yet, videos in which people's bodies are constructed according to the basic laws of biology

Going absolutely Naked

How Avatar Leaped Into the Third Dimension

Jon Landau, Cameron worked with Ubisoft’s acclaimed Montreal studio during a two-year-plus collaboration with a team of more than 250 developers

How Avatar Leaped Into the Third Dimension

Making Magic: On Schedule and Within Budget - CGArena

To keep up with demand for its original imagery, Framestore has been reaching new efficiencies in the production pipeline by using...

Making Magic: On Schedule and Within Budget - CGArena

Ralph Lauren 4D Projection

MPC joined forces with UVA and Drive to create a bespoke 4D building projection to launch Ralph Lauren's new collection

Ralph Lauren 4D Projection

Making of Lighthouse in Cinema4D

Some time ago Artist saw some paintings in the background and the theme was the sea. I was fascinated by the sensations that many of them passed

Making of Lighthouse in Cinema4D

There's only one Original

Anonymous Content Director Markus Walter wages war against generic autos in this innovative :30 for Lexus, via Team One

There's only one Original

Interview with Antonio Peres Vieira Filho

37 years old Brazilian 3d Artist whose renders are very photo-realistic and working as a chief creative officer

Interview with Antonio Peres Vieira Filho

Making of Interested

In this image adult is an older male, that was curious to approach the baby and the baby was overwhelmed with the size of the adult

Making of Interested

Painting the Portrait of a Girl

This tutorial assumes that you have working hands and a method of marking something because that's necessary for beautiful painting

Painting the Portrait of a Girl

Making of Hippopotamus

Artist created this 3d artwork using 3ds Max 2010 and here explaining the steps involved in the process

Making of Hippopotamus

Painting Chain of Holy Glare

This is a step by step explanation of how artist painted this painting in corel photo-paint

Painting Chain of Holy Glare

Understanding Stereoscopy in 3ds max

In this learning package artist shown you how to create cameras and prepare your scene for anaglyph stereo in 3ds Max

Understanding Stereoscopy in 3ds max

Making of Leaves of Greens

Artist was in love with all the different shades of greens of the forest nearby the road and decided to paint a fairy painting using many variations of greens for my color scheme.

Making of Leaves of Greens

Making of Leaves of Greens

Artist was in love with all the different shades of greens of the forest nearby the road and decided to paint a fairy painting using many variations of greens for my color scheme.

Making of Leaves of Greens

Interview with Carlos Ortega Elizalde

Artist like to model the characters and feel awesome to create some kind of life straight from a cube or a plane.

Interview with Carlos Ortega Elizalde

Presenting a Brand using 3ds Max

When designing an identity and brand materials for a client, good presentation is crucial! In this tutorial takes us through how to model the different items usually involved in the branding process

Presenting a Brand using 3ds Max

CGArena: Animation Magazine Oct - Nov 10 Issue

CGArena Animation Magazine Oct - Nov 2010 Issue Available for free download

CGArena: Animation Magazine Oct - Nov 10 Issue

Understanding Rendering and Lighting of Living Room

Will look through the process of rendering of living room with super lighting and gorgeous composition. Very Detailed Tutorial

Understanding Rendering and Lighting of Living Room

Making of Ford GT 40 in Vegas

Artist will cover several aspects of hard surface polygonal modeling, lighting, texturing and rendering in Maya and Mental Ray

Making of Ford GT 40 in Vegas

Spot: Virgin Atlantic, 001

In this latest Virgin Atlantic spot MPC provided the post including a comprehensive pre-viz, extensive compositing and environment work

Spot: Virgin Atlantic, 001

Making of I'm the Godfather

Artist explain the steps that lead to the creation of this image, which he made using Photoshop CS5

Making of I'm the Godfather

Spot: Samsung Galaxy S Smartphone

Asylum created a cinema-quality spot introducing the Samsung Galaxy S™ smartphone.

Spot: Samsung Galaxy S Smartphone

Fashion World's First 3D Ad Camapign

Advertising in stereoscopic 3D just became a whole lot sexier, the fashion world's first-ever 3D campaign

Fashion World's First 3D Ad Camapign

Creating Seamless Texture

In this video tutorial artist will show you how to use Adobe Photoshop to create a seamless and tileable texture

Creating Seamless Texture

Modeling the 2010 World Cup 'Jabulani' Football

The steps that follow are the result of a day’s experimentation with the goal of creating easily reproducible results when modeling a 2010 soccer ball.

Modeling the 2010 World Cup Jabulani Football

New McDonald's Campaign

Duck creates the stylized, vivid fantasy spots for new Mcdonald's Campaign. Hope you will enjoy these two spots.

New McDonald's Campaign

Making of Hummer

Artist especially interested in modeling the Hummer H1 design because it is much more sturdy and heavy in comparison to typical sports cars

Making of Hummer

Depth of Field with Composition

In this tutorial learn the compositing way of simulating DOF effects using 3ds max and photoshop

Depth of Field with Composition

Modeling the Screwdriver

This is a step by step beginners tutorial which will explain how to create a detailed screwdriver

Modeling the Screwdriver

Click 3X Gives Cute Critters Mischievous Makeovers for GEICO

Believe it or not, baby animals could always be cuter and with the aid of a Flame suite, there's no limit to cuteness

Click 3X Gives Cute Critters Mischievous Makeovers for GEICO

Top 15 Toons in 3D

Here are the collection of top 15 toons in 3D which are created by various digital artists

Top 15 Toons in 3D

Taylor James Brings Westfield Out of Its Shell

Eye-catching campaign depicts models leaving behind last season’s summer clothes as a cracked shell of their former selves

Taylor James Brings Westfield Out of Its Shell

Project Overview: Smoke in the Eye

Artist not going to explain the modeling, nor the texturing or lighting but will explain the post-production process which allows any image to touch the sky

Project Overview: Smoke in the Eye

Video Tutorial: Realistic Glass of Water

In this video tutorial artists wants to show you how to create a realistic glass of water (liquid) with Maya Mental ray materials.

Video Tutorial: Realistic Glass of Water

Project Overview: Xray Car

Artist will give the short overview of the image making process in 3ds max, which you can also follow

Project Overview: Xray Car

Nice Shoes NYC Moves Heaven & Earth

It took Nice Shoes almost a month to paint Kanye West into a :90 Italian fresco-style video to build buzz around the release of the artist's new single

Nice Shoes NYC Moves Heaven & Earth

Making of Home in the Desert 66

This work shows the back of a house that has withstood the time, full of debris that tells the story trying to recreate some of that legend.

Making of Home in the Desert 66

Making of Calamity Jane

In this tutorial I will not go in the detail explanation, assuming that reader has some basic knowledge of modeling, rendering and texturing in any 3d software.

Making of Calamity Jane

Spot: Cadbury's Spots V Stripes

Fallon and A Glass and A Half Full Productions have created Cadbury’s latest commercial, an underwater adventure eagerly anticipating the ‘big game’ of 2012

Spot: Cadbury's Spots V Stripes

Making of Angel in ZBrush

The idea of this project was based on a portrait made in ZBrush, and this portrait inspired me to create a whole character

Making of Angel in ZBrush

Interview with Jason Seiler

Caricature artist currently living in Chicago and also had the pleasure of working as a character designer for Alice in Wonderland

Interview with Jason Seiler

Making of a Formula 1

Color scheme of formula 1 generic car is a tribute to my soccer team Flamengo who is the winner of the Brazilian soccer championship of 2009

Making of a Formula 1

Making of Annie

The idea was to create a character in a cartoon style with a good charisma using 3ds Max

Making of Annie

Making of How to Train your Creature

The concept story of the image is about the boy from the unbelievable island wanted to train his Dog + Parrot + Monkey (creature)

Making of How to Train your Creature

Short Film: Envirometer

When the forces of conservation and industrialization compete head to head, the only entity that can regulate the fight is the fantastic measuring contraption known as the Envirometer

Short Film: Envirometer

CGArena: Animation Magazine Aug - Sep 10 Issue

CGArena Animation Magazine Aug-Sep 2010 Issue Available for free download

CGArena: Animation Magazine Aug - Sep 10 Issue

Taylor James Gives a Private Consultation for MTV's 'Digital Surgery'

Exploring the powerful use of digital enhancement in today’s media, Taylor James helped to transform MTV news presenter into a woman

Taylor James Gives a Private Consultation for MTV's Digital Surgery

Making of 9 Sqrm Production

To have an idea, great idea, and brilliant idea is that difference if the audience only notices your presence, give you standing ovation or simply love you forever, of course your work.

Making of 9 Sqrm Production

Making of Tree Room

Started to look for some references on Japanese rooms and trees because that was the style I wanted to reproduce

Making of Tree Room