CGArena: CG Magazine Jul-Aug 11 Issue

New issue of the much awaited magazine is now available for free download. Download the issue and learn about the project makings/details

CGArena: CG Magazine Jul-Aug 11 Issue

White Out - Body in Snow

Here is the summary of a shot completed for the independent movie, “White Out”, by Mr.Lawrie Brewster, Director

White Out - Body in Snow

Visualizing ISAM

Leviathan chief scientist Matt Daly and his colleagues at the design-focused, Chicago-based production studio are very proud to detail their artistry in conjunction with V Squared Labs

Visualizing ISAM

Camparisoda “Welcome to Giulia”

Director Grady Hall of production company Motion Theory dramatizes a young woman’s life story as an imaginative visual journey for Camparisoda

Camparisoda “Welcome to Giulia”

What's in the box

Ever wonder what comes with that tech device that you are about to purchase, and what accessories you’ll discover you need once you take your new gadget home?

What's in the box

Value Proposition -- PC or Console Games?

With the advent of tablets and smartphones, the platforms available to play games on are ever increasing. With the runaway success of social games like Farmville

Value Proposition -- PC or Console Games?

Spot: Hyundai Magic

Dashing completed the magic effects and extensive car cleanup work throughout the :60 spot in just two days, using a streamlined workflow that relied on Autodesk Flame

Spot: Hyundai Magic

Spot: Robot and Carl's Jr

a robot comes home from work, feeds his goldfish, and then sits down to eat dinner, the delicious-looking Carl's Jr

Spot: Robot and Carl's Jr

Spot Making: Standing up for Freedom - Amnesty International's 50th Aniversary

The main idea came after days of brainstorming, and a couple of failed scripts. The concept had to be strong, clear, and effective, while giving the viewer an idea of what Amnesty International

Spot Making: Standing up for Freedom - Amnesty International's 50th Aniversary

722 - McLaren SLR

Learn how to design and texture a highly detailed model of the legendary McLaren SLR 722s Roadster hyper car

722 - McLaren SLR

Making of Little Fishes

In this making artist will share the workflow, sketching the idea is one of the most important step, to put your ideas on paper

Making of Little Fishes

Painting Megaman

Artist tried finding an interesting composition of Megaman flying towards the camera through this sketching stage

Painting Megaman

Creating the Baseball Simulation in MLB 2K11

Blogger selected the best shots from the videos that will be most helpful during the motion capture session

Creating the Baseball Simulation in MLB 2K11

Making of Dead City

The idea was to depict the derelict demolished city inhabited with living zombies. Artist drew the doodle in gray-scale mode, which further facilitated with application of photo-textures.

Making of Dead City

Interview with Cris De Lara

Freelance artist from Canada which worked for caricaturist, portraitist, colorist, Children Book Illustrator and much more

Interview with Cris De Lara

Krylon Aerosol Paints

created a stop-motion test as a proof of concept, which ended up being quite close to what I ended up shooting for the actual spot

Krylon Aerosol Paints

Making of Dream Place

In this article artist will discuss the process of creating this work, entitled The Dream Place.

Making of Dream Place

Making of Natanz Minaret

Artist sharing some tips about Iranian Architecture and general approaches to make Ruined BRICK Buildings in CG

Making of Natanz Minaret

Beyonce's Billboard Performance Come Alive

TBL create a dazzling backdrop for Beyonce's performance of her latest single "Run the World" at the Billboard Music Awards

Beyonce's Billboard Performance Come Alive

Making of Turkish Butcher

This butcher is working in a not so clean environment but he’s good at what he’s doing. This shop is his father’s legacy and he is bounded with family traditions

Making of Turkish Butcher

Create Realistic Clouds without plug-in

In this tutorial we'll learn how to create realistic volumetric clouds in 3ds Max without using any plug-in, this is step by step tutorial

Create Realistic Clouds without plug-in

Beautiful Transformation

Ever wonder what a superhero would look like if their powers allowed them to transform into a bottle of iced tea?

Beautiful Transformation

Texture Painting & Creating Bump and Specular Maps with Photoshop CS5

We are going to learn how to render a UV Template and send it to PHOTOSHOP, and paint a leather texture, also how to create the bump map and the specular map

Texture Painting & Creating Bump and Specular Maps with Photoshop CS5

Gaming the (Educational) System

overview of some of the different game design programs across the country, as well as what skills, materials and advice students need

Gaming the (Educational) System

Nice Shoes Takes Friskies to 3D Cinema

Originally animated in 2D by Passion Pictures, it features a cat in a real-world kitchen and a can of Friskies which emits a magical display of golden confetti

Nice Shoes Takes Friskies to 3D Cinema

Unwrapping with 3ds Max

In this video tutorial we are going to unwrap a model using Xrayunwrap plugin for 3ds max

Unwrapping with 3ds Max

Lighting & Setting up a Realistic Render with Vray and 3ds Max

In this tutorial you will learn how to lighting and setting up a realistic render with Vray 2.0 and 3ds max 2011, also how to use ies lights

Lighting & Setting up a Realistic Render with Vray and 3ds Max

Making of Weird Friendship

Weird Friendship realistic painting by Shady \"Brahim Azizi\", created in Photoshop CS5 and Wacom. Hope you will enjoy this making...

Making of Weird Friendship

Making of Interior Kitchen Visualization

The aim of this image is to prove that it is possible for any 3D artist who is not working as a professional to create a photo-real rendering

Making of Interior Kitchen Visualization

Making of Don't Beat Me

Artist started with the default body mesh from Mudbox, and quickly modified the body into baby proportions in ZBrush and Maya

Making of Don't Beat Me

McDonald's Taps Kompost and DUCK for Unique Campaign

What does an advertising legend such as McDonald's do when it decides to shift from the live-action world to a rendered wonderland to promote its famous Happy Meals

McDonald's Taps Kompost and DUCK for Unique Campaign

Making of Sentinel by Bob Nolin

Painted the bald eagle portrait, using a digital tablet, the method used comes directly from many years as a traditional watercolor painter

Making of Sentinel by Bob Nolin

Media Equipment

The product DOSCH 3D: Media Equipment contains 50 very detailed and fully textured 3D-models of consumer electronic products.

Media Equipment

Concept Cars 2011

20 very detailed and completely textured 3D-models of highly realistic non-branded concept cars. The product includes all major car-types: compact cars, SUVs, station wagon, luxury cars, etc.

Concept Cars 2011

Composition Rules

Composition is the placement or arrangement of visual elements or ingredients in a work of art, as distinct from the subject of a work

Composition Rules

Digital Domain and "TRON: Legacy" Director Joe Kosinski Reunite for BMW Spot

Digital Domain built the entire KC-135 digitally after conducting an intricate survey of the actual plane, obtaining reference photos

Digital Domain and "TRON: Legacy" Director Joe Kosinski Reunite for BMW Spot

The Future Is Solid: Solid-state Drives Revolutionize Gaming

Solid-state drives are revolutionizing storage performance on desktop and laptop PCs, delivering dramatically faster load times than hard disk drives

The Future Is Solid: Solid-state Drives Revolutionize Gaming

Blind Brings Archived Stories to Life

A lyrical, moving and informative piece about the bloody conflict using the true stories of three soldiers, set against a backdrop of sepia-tinted stills

Blind Brings Archived Stories to Life

Interview with Tiago Hoisel

Graduated in Graphic Design and running an illustration studio in Sao Paulo called Techno Image and working with very renowned talented artists

Interview with Tiago Hoisel

Absolute Gets Verizon Out of a Jam

Think your internet connection can do everything but drive you down the road? Created an unreal traffic jam that metaphorically shows the speed and superiority of Verizon's fiber-optic network

Absolute Gets Verizon Out of a Jam

Live Action & CG 3 - A Comprehensive Guide to Compositing

Instructor Matt Skonicki takes you through the entire process of compositing 2 HD Shots with 3D integration. The best part of this tutorial is it uses Autodesk Composite for compositing which ships free with Autodesk Maya 2011.

Live Action & CG 3 - A Comprehensive Guide to Compositing

Spot: Join the Dance

Editor organically integrating a series of CGI elements – from dancing chairs and revolving buildings, to animated fruit – maintaining the continuity of the storyline

Spot: Join the Dance

V-Ray for Maya v2.0 Released

The complete, state-of-the-art rendering solution now comes with interactive rendering on GPU and CPU. Users in all industries - from VFX to Architecture - will benefit from a more robust and much faster rendering solution.

V-Ray for Maya v2.0

Interview with David Couchariere - Part 2

Second part of Interview with David Couchariere, character animator in Dreamworks Animation will answer your questions which was posted by the CGArena visitors

Interview with David Couchariere - Part 2

How to Add 3D Model in Real Image

In this image artist will concentrate on the presentation, toning and compositing and explain you how to add 3d model in real image

How to Add 3D Model in Real Image

Digital Domain Helps Dodge Rebel Against the Sci-Fi Robot Future

Directed by RSA's Carl Erik Rinsch via Wieden + Kennedy with VFX by Digital Domain, cinematic Dodge Charger spot rallies drivers of the future to reclaim their right to drive

Digital Domain Helps Dodge Rebel Against the Sci-Fi Robot Future

There Was an Effects Studio That Made a Great Shoe...

Dashing built the shoe shaped house in Maya and Mental Ray over a two-week period, experimenting with different window shapes, floor scales

There Was an Effects Studio That Made a Great Shoe...

Creative studio taylor james Titivates film and tv ‘bible’ THE KNOWLEDGE

Taylor James, the London-based creative production studio, has unveiled its latest designs for The Knowledge’s 2011 Directory

Creative studio taylor james Titivates film and tv ‘bible’ THE KNOWLEDGE

Now upload more Portfolio Images

For all portfolio users, your limit of uploading the images is increased 5 times from 60 to 300. Create your portfolio account now...

CGArena - Animation and Graphics Community for Digital Artists

Making of Zombie in the Closet

The idea for this work came to me after watching some zombie movies and playing the brilliant Zombies vs plants game

Making of Zombie in the Closet

Building Collapsing using Pflow Tutorial

In this 3 minutes video tutorial, artist will show you how to create a building collapsing, using pflow toolbox 2.

Building Collapsing using Pflow Tutorial

Roaming Lion by Taylor James

Working with agency Untold Images, Taylor James created this lion entirely in CG for telecommunication brand Celcom’s latest ‘Roaming Lion’ campaign

Roaming Lion by Taylor James

Vertebral Column - Complete

Highly accurate and detailed model of human vertebral column

Vertebral Column - Complete

Making of Kids Love Dentists

The tutorial shows mistakes and changes which artist made during the working process. Don\'t be afraid of changing your image when...

Making of Kids Love Dentists

RL Gang: A Magically Magnificent School Adventure

Ralph Lauren Spring 2011 Children's Storybook, an interactive online clothing catalogue and a video with a fantastical blend of animation and live action.

RL Gang: A Magically Magnificent School Adventure

Interview with Valve Software’s Erik Wolpaw

Eric Wolpaw talks about the creation of Valve’s software much-anticipated Portal 2, which ships in April

Interview with Valve Software’s Erik Wolpaw

Bedroom Furniture 3D Models

This collection contains 75 hi-poly 3D models of 12 different bedroom furnitures sets, suitable for architectonical visualizations, animations, illustrations and as part of other audio visual work. Models include textures and materials.

Bedroom Furniture

Desperados: Behind the Scenes

This was a complete creative production by Taylor James from the initial concept develop. to final delivery & here are the behind ...

Desperados: Behind the Scenes

CGArena: CG Magazine Apr - May 11 Issue

New issue is released and available for free download. According to many artists this is the best free mag available on the planet

CGArena: CG Magazine Apr - May 11 Issue

Mane Attraction by Taylor James

Taylor James produce a print and motion campaign promoting the use of the cancer-fighting drug Alimta. Everything created in 3D.

Mane Attraction by Taylor James

Making of Little Bunny

Hardest part was to decide what to create, so after spending sometime on thinking, artist figured out that he wanted to do a weird cartoon

Making of Little Bunny

House Installation

House Installation contains a detailed 3D-model of a virtual house including electric and sanitary installation. Recommended for fast and quality work.

House Installation

Making of Forever

Sara sharing with you the process for creating the character portrait and methods used here can be adapted to any painting programs

Making of Forever

Making of "There Is Hope" - Warehouse

Artist moved on from Photorealism and liked more of a stylized approach. Artist prefer style to photo-real

Making of "There Is Hope" - Warehouse

CGArena April Newsletter 2011

Check out the online newsletter of CGArena. This collects all the important tutorials, makings, news on CGArena in month of Mar 2011.

CGArena April Newsletter 2011

V-Ray for Maya v2.0 - Pre-Order Now

V-Ray for Maya v2.0 is now available at the pre-order price of only $1,235 (including shipping + dongle)! This discounted price is only available from March 25 - April 21, 2011. After April 21, the cost for V-Ray for Maya v2.0 will increase to $1,385.

V-Ray for Maya v2.0 - Pre-Order Now

Respiratory Model

All 3D-elements are together or individually perfectly suited for medical or surgical illustrations and animations; particularly for detail studies and close-ups used in doctor and nurse training, or for educating patients and the general public.

Respiratory Model

Ask the Questions from David Couchariere

Now it's your chance to ask the questions from David and within few days he will post the answers of best and intersting questions

Ask the Questions from David Couchariere

Prime Focus converting Star Wars: Episode I the Phantom Menace to 3D

Lucasfilm and Prime Focus proud to announce their collaboration on the 3D conversion of Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace for theatrical release

Prime Focus converting Star Wars: Episode I the Phantom Menace to 3D

Craft Director Studio 11.1.4 Released

It now has support for the following systems:
- Autodesk 3ds Max 2012/3ds Max Design 2012
- Autodesk Maya 2012
- Autodesk Softimage 2012
- Japanese Windows 7

Craft Director Studio

Stardust’s Holographic Worlds for Blackberry & BBDO Moscow

3D Holographic Illusions Shown within a Unique 3D Display ‘Station’ Highlight Global Connectivity of the MTS Blackberry Storm2 Smartphone

Stardust’s Holographic Worlds for Blackberry & BBDO Moscow

Making of Having A Meal: A Conversation with God

When there is more than one way of seeing things, when illustrations are more complex to create

Making of Having A Meal: A Conversation with God

Making of New Species

Initial idea was to create a funny looking Dentist who looks impressed of a large tooth he just pulled out, but the idea changed

Making of New Species

PLAY Creates A Graphic Novel-Inspired Promo - Twilight Zone Marathon

Syfy recently tasked Play, the one-stop creative promo house, with the challenge of putting a new and imaginative spin on this season’s promo campaign for the 16th Annual ‘Twilight Zone Marathon.’

PLAY Creates A Graphic Novel-Inspired Promo - Twilight Zone Marathon

Video Tutorial: Head Modeling in Maya

These tutorials diggs deep into the unknown land of head modeling. If you are new to modeling. This will be a great tutorial for you.

Video Tutorial: Head Modeling in Maya

Making of Monster Head

In this making artist will explain the most important steps in creating this alien monster bust in ZBrush

Making of Monster Head

Video Tutorial: Glass Material in 3ds Max

This Video tutorial explains how to create Glass material through Arch & Design and Raytrace materials in 3ds Max

Video Tutorial: Glass Material in 3ds Max

Yaroslav Grigorash Portfolio - CGArena

Freelance 3D Character Artist from Ukraine having more than 6 years of experience and specialisation in almost every field

Yaroslav Grigorash Portfolio - CGArena

Architectural Vizualization - Set 1-2-3

The Architectural Vizualisation sets are unique amongst architectural training sets in that they actually show you everything,

Architectural Vizualization - Set 3

RayFire Tool v1.55 Released

Rayfire new version is released with many new features, you will love the the ability to fragment, destroy, demolish, wreck, break...

RayFire Tool v1.55

Painting Monkey in Photoshop

Artist will guide you through the whole process, from the initial sketch design to the final presentable painting all using Adobe Photoshop

Painting Monkey in Photoshop

Making of Bath in ZBrush

The original idea of the image came in the artist mind from the references he collected and then created in ZBrush

Making of Bath

Interview with David Couchariere

Character animator with more than 11 years of experience and worked with Blue Sky studios and currently working with Dreamworks

Interview with David Couchariere

Cebas

All the main and popular Cebas products now available in the CGArena store and once again these are at lowest online prices.

Cebas

Making of The King's Speech VFX

The King’s Speech, a true cinematic jewel to world cinema has swept the Oscars this year with four wins

Making of The King's Speech VFX

Interview with Peter Molyneux

Interview with Legendary British game designer Peter Molyneux on Fable III and commitment to PC Gaming

Interview with Peter Molyneux

V-Ray 2.0 - 3ds Max at discounted Prices for limited period

V-Ray 2.0 for 3ds Max is a complete rendering solution, which combines the power of the distinguished V-Ray rendering engine with the flexibility and unprecedented speed of the interactive rendering system V-Ray RT, now running on GPUs.

V-Ray 2.0 - 3ds Max

People - Silhouettes Viz Images

300 high-resolution images of people silouettes are provided in the common PSD, TIF, JPG and EPS formats.

People - Silhouettes

Swimming Pool 3D Models

100 very detailed and fully textured 3D-models of important details for private and public swimming pools, wellness areas and whirlpools.

Swimming Pool

Making of Say Cheese

Artist main objective was to make the final product look believable and, most importantly, a very strong likeness to the concept

Making of Say Cheese

Camaro Training Video Released

This training contains a complete series of video tutorials which shows you how to design, animate, rig a fully functional 3D car

Camaro Training Video

Digitally Transformed Video Training Released

Discover the deep secret that will show you how to transform your Camaro car into a standing Bumble Bee autobot from the movie Transformers...

Digitally Transformed Video Training Released

Rendering a Toy with Mental Ray

In this tutorial we will setup the scene, create the different materials of same product and render the same

Rendering a Toy with Mental Ray

Geon Team delivers approx. 150 VFX shots for Gulliver's Travels

Geon studios worked on Scaling, matching eye line and environment with respect to Liliput and Gulliver sizes; BG sharpening, adding CG elements

Geon Team delivers approx. 150 VFX shots for Gulliver's Travels

Cravendale, Cats With Thumbs

The spot brings to life a man’s mental flight of fancy as he muses on what might happen if cats were to grow opposable thumbs.

Cravendale, Cats With Thumbs

Fedex Spot with Great VFX

Dashing recently showcased their diversity and nimble nature in a spot for FedEx, shot by Director Tim Godsall out of BBDO Toronto.

Fedex Spot with Great VFX

Nice Shoes and JLo Collaborate on Good Hit

Director Alex Moors, Nice Shoes recently handled all color grading and VFX on Jennifer Lopez's latest video, Good Hit.

Nice Shoes and JLo Collaborate on Good Hit

Interview with Nate Owens

Artist entered in the graphics business in the late 60’s as a production artist well before the arrival of computers that were capable of anything relating to graphics

Interview with Nate Owens

Making of Children Room

Learn how to create a similar lighting and colors like you have seen in the pixar movie Monsters & Co.

Making of Children Room

XYZ Gets Juice from Charlex for Ribena

We had an entire family of distinct characters, intricate landscapes, a highly detailed mother tree, fluid simulations and atmospheric lighting.

XYZ Gets Juice from Charlex for Ribena