Video Tutorials: Modo 601 Retopology

A detailed look at organic retopology in modo 601, combining the topology tools with the regular modelling tools and the workplane for a fast and efficient workflow.

Video Tutorials: Modo 601 Retopology

CGI/Live-Action National Campaign For Cartoon Network Hall of Game Awards

Cartoon Network and Artistic Image joined forces to create national spots for presenting sponsor Kids with full of VFX work

CGI/Live-Action National Campaign For Cartoon Network Hall of Game Awards

Mothership’s David Rosenbaum Directs Launch Spot for Nike Flyknit

David Rosenbaum of Digital Domain\'s and Mothership was tapped by Nike to launch its revolutionary new Flyknit technology

Mothership’s David Rosenbaum Directs Launch Spot for Nike Flyknit

Making of Star Wars Fan Film Poster

This image is a work for a Star Wars fan short movie, called Star Wars: The Holo Experience or SW: THX. Most of the designs were m...

Making of Star Wars Fan Film Poster

Making of Steampunk Faith

The idea of this project was to take all the objects from a Steampunk book and turn them into 3D and artist attempt is successful

Making of Steampunk Faith

New Digital Double Pipeline Used for "Journey 2"

USC ICT (ICT), Icon Imaging Studio , Lightstage LLC and House of Moves (HOM) collaboratively pioneered a new process to create digital doubles for the recently released Journey 2: The Mysterious Island.

New Digital Double Pipeline Used for "Journey 2"

Taylor James create galloping Pegasus for the new world’s fastest phone

Taylor James unveils the iconic 3D image of a Pegasus created from thousands of tiny computer generated models of the latest mobile phone revealed by global telecom provider; Huawei

Taylor James create galloping Pegasus for the new world’s fastest phone

Interview with Casey Hudson (Executive Producer)

The man responsible for guiding this bestselling space role-playing game, executive producer Casey Hudson, talks about Commander Shepard’s final confrontation

Interview with Casey Hudson (Executive Producer)

Making of Chinese Garden

This project was inspired by the beautiful Huntington Botanical Garden's Chinese Garden, created this image in 3ds max

Making of Chinese Garden

ZBrush 4 - Character Production

This training is an amazing resource for those looking to create their own characters in ZBrush using many of the latest tools and features.

ZBrush 4 - Character Production

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Opening Title Sequence

Blur Studios created the highly-lauded two-and-a-half minute opening title sequence for The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Opening Title Sequence

Tide: Pop-A-Lot

MTh director Mark Kudsi teamed up with Saatchi & Saatchi NY to build inspired worlds in a new campaign promoting the launch of Tide's new "PODS" product.

Tide: Pop-A-Lot

Fishes wants to watch TV

Charlex recently finished an amusing and impressive Spanish-language :60 promoting Verizon's 100% fiber optic network, FiOS.

Fishes wants to watch TV

Bricks and Blocks

In this tutorial firstly we will create a simple standard red brick wall without any sculpting program and later sculpt the blocks wall using 3d program.

Bricks and Blocks

Making of DeadPool

Artist is not a big fan of comic strips but some of the characters have favorite styles so he decide to try to model one of them

Making of DeadPool

The Making of Natalie

Artist was inspired to make a portrait of Natalie Portman after watching her movie and he wanted to create her likeness based on her photo and add own character interpretation.

The Making of Natalie

COPA Brings Nicki Minaj to Life in 'Turn Me On'

Fresh off their official launch, COPA has delivered high-end imagery for Turn Me On, the new music video for David Guetta and Nicki Minaj

COPA Brings Nicki Minaj to Life in 'Turn Me On'

Making of Dream Mill

While surfing on internet, Artist found this picture and fall in love to it. Consider this as a challenge and create in 3D.

Making of Dream Mill

Interview with John Miles (Art Director of Syndicate at EA)

John Miles, art director of Syndicate at Electronic Arts, talks about developing the new game and strategies.

Interview with John Miles (Art Director of Syndicate at EA)

UPS My Choice Launches a New Era with Compelling Stop Motion Animation

Using a hybrid of live-action and stop-motion animation, the campaign promotes UPS’s new My Choice service, which provides customers with package information electronically

UPS My Choice Launches a New Era with Compelling Stop Motion Animation

Architectural Details V3

Architectural Details V3 contains very detailed and fully textured 3D-models for visualizations of architecture.

Architectural Details V3

MPC Creative and TBWA\Chiat\Day Storm Grammys with Bon Iver, Adele

MPC Creative created a pair of visually stunning spots for the Grammy Awards, one starring Bon Iver and another featuring singer-songwriter Adele.

MPC Creative and TBWA\Chiat\Day Storm Grammys with Bon Iver, Adele

CGArena: CG Magazine Feb - Mar 12 Issue

Another awesome issue of CGArena Free animation magazine is out and ready to download for all the registered users.

CGArena: CG Magazine Feb - Mar 12 Issue

UnrealScript Masterclass - Part 1 - Re-creating Assault in UDK

This training is an amazing resource for those looking to customize their games using UnrealScript.

UnrealScript Masterclass - Part 1 - Re-creating Assault in UDK

Making of a Cop

Artist idea was to make a series of images with a similar huge-head characters & one style environments with box-stylized forms of the objects

Making of a Cop

Interview with Dan Roarty

Interview with Lead Character Artist, currently working at LucasArts, also worked in various Game studios and originally from Vancouver

Interview with Dan Roarty

Visual Effects Society (VES) Announces Winners of 10th Annual VES Awards

The Visual Effects Society (VES) announced the winners of its 10th Annual VES Awards tonight at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California.

Visual Effects Society (VES) Announces Winners of 10th Annual VES Awards

Absolute Dials it in For CTIA

when you're swallowed by a fish, it's a bad day. Count on Absolute to make things right, breathing incredible vibrancy into an upbeat adventure of a spot for CTIA

Absolute Dials it in For CTIA

MPC Zooms towards the Super Bowl for Hyundai

Hyundai spots featuring VFX by MPC. Chief among the studio's efforts is a fully photorealistic cheetah racing a Veloster sports car

MPC Zooms towards the Super Bowl for Hyundai

Making of Loft

Making of Loft, artist explained the steps taken to create this realistic interior scene using 3ds max, Vray, Photoshop. Hope you ...

Making of Loft

Pixomondo creates Aerial Acrobatics for Lucasfilm's Red Tails

International visual effects company Pixomondo completed 546 shots on Red Tails, about a third of the film’s 1524 total VFX shots.

Pixomondo creates Aerial Acrobatics for Lucasfilm's Red Tails

MPC and Goodby Take to the Streets with Chevy Volt

MPC, teaming up with Director Nick Gordon and Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, captures the rejuvenated spirit of this proud Midwestern town behind a flawless blend of photoreal VFX and documentary-style footage of the city.

MPC and Goodby Take to the Streets with Chevy Volt

Making of Airbattle

Artist will show you the making of a sci fi concept. The subject is a fleet of alien starships flying over new York. This will help you in understand the concept of painting.

Making of Airbattle

Mothership’s David Rosenbaum Directs “Robotarm” for Cisco

The commercial depicts a cheerfully aware group of self-sustaining automotive assembly robots as a metaphor for Cisco Intelligent Networks that can fix and diagnose themselves.

Mothership’s David Rosenbaum Directs “Robotarm” for Cisco

Making of Chamaro

Artist wanted to create a humanoid-reptile creature, he searched the google for reference pics and found a pic of a weird reptile

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

Artificial Night Lighting Interior Scene + PDF Tutorial

Rendering realistic images using artificial lighting can be a tricky process, this require a good base of references and a little of creativity, with this scene it will be a lot of easy for you learn how to setup a great and realistic Artificial or Night Lighting Space with 3ds Max and Vray.

Artificial Night Lighting Interior Scene + PDF Tutorial

Super Structures - Modeling Tower Bridge

In this great project on hard surface modeling in Lightwave 10 we recreate a famous landmark structure - Tower Bridge.

Super Structures - Modeling Tower Bridge

722 - Advanced Car Rig & Animation - Vol 2

Learn how to rig and animate the motion of the car's roof folding away to turn your car into a true convertible

• Animating a dynamic car burnout, complete with smoke from the tyres

• Animating the tyres making skid marks on a road

• Animating a dramatic and fantastic drift of the 722 slr roadster

• Create the effect of brake discs glowing red when the car stops

• Rigging and animating the door's windows

722 - Advanced Car Rig & Animation - Vol 2

Prime Focus Adds thrill in ‘Players’ with 1108 VFX shots and DI

Prime focus has delivered 1108 VFX shots and DI for the latest fast paced, action centric-thriller Bollywood hit movie – ‘Players‘.

Prime Focus Adds thrill in ‘Players’ with 1108 VFX shots and DI

CGArena Turns 6

It may not have popped up in your birthday list, but 18th Jan is cgarena\'s big day: the site is now 6 years old!

CGArena Turns 6

SciFi Textures Released

The textures have been exclusively designed by Pino Gengo. Pino has worked as a texture artist on games like Crysis, Crysis Warhead and Far Cry .

SciFi Textures

Jack Skellington Scene and Character Study

In this complete project-based training kit he covers modeling both the character and environment, texturing and lighting of the full scene, as well as posing the character and some post production for the final shots.

Jack Skellington Scene and Character Study

Making of the Abandon Factory

This tutorial can be useful to all and can inspire all the friends who want to learn 3d, especially those friends which are just learning 3d.

Making of the Abandon Factory

The Dozer - Part 2 - Low Poly Modeling, UVing and Baking

In this training, Instructor Laurens Corijn continues from Part 1 and constructs the Low Poly version of the Dozer including the Modeling, UVing, and Baking.

The Dozer - Part 2 - Low Poly Modeling, UVing and Baking

Making of the Challenger

This artwork is created by Japanese Digital Artist using Photoshop, which like to paint the dragon, fantasy world blah blah blah.....

Making of the Challenger

Hundreds of Photo-Real Digital Assets For Team Detroit’s 2012 Ford Mustang Customizer

Team Detroit took this year's Ford Mustang Customizer to the next level, creating an interactive experience that not only invites users to help design their dream muscle car, but also gives their designs a life outside of the automaker’s website, in social media.

Hundreds of Photo-Real Digital Assets For Team Detroit’s 2012 Ford Mustang Customizer

Character Design with Carlo Spagnola

In this workshop Carlo Spagnola walks you through his visual development process as he creates a Sci-Fi Zombie.

Character Design with Carlo Spagnola

Vicon Technologies Give USC Students Hands-On Motion Capture Experience

Vicon recently collaborated with the Robert Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts at the USC School of Cinematic Arts to upgrade their motion capture system with 46 cameras.

Vicon Technologies Give USC Students Hands-On Motion Capture Experience

Liquid Magic: Exocortex Technology

Harry Potter’s memory pool sequences required an ink-in-water look where the ink would behave realistically in a large volume, then quickly assume dynamic shapes

Liquid Magic: Exocortex Technology

Making of The Mall

Artist searched the PC and found this nice old work that he did back in 2008, so he decide to do a making of for explaining the co...

Making of The Mall

How to Draw a Children's Book Illustration

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a detailed 2D illustration using standard Photoshop brushes.

How to Draw a Children's Book Illustration

Download 2012 Wallpaper Calendar - Free Download

We want to take this opportunity to wish each and every one of you the best of times. Happy New Year to all of you and Happy Download...

Download 2012 Wallpaper Calendar - Free Download

2012 New Year Wishes by MD Simulations

MD Simulation's wishing you 2012 Happy New Year with this cool animated short. Hope you all will enjoy this animation and soon this industry and whole world will come out of double dip recession.

2012 New Year Wishes by MD Simulations

Video Tutorial: Creating a Low-Poly City

In this 40 min video tutorial you will learn how to create a low poly city using a free plugin Greeble. We will also talk about mapping techniques for this project

Video Tutorial: Creating a Low-Poly City

Making of Detective Ridley

In this tutorial artist will take you through the steps in the creation of my Detective Ridley characters made for Gameloft

Making of Detective Ridley

722 - Advanced Car Rig & Animation: Vol 1

The 722 training DVD is a video based training which contains video tutorials that will show you how to create an advanced car rig and animate your model of the beautiful McLaren SLR 722s Roadster.

722 - Advanced Car Rig & Animation: Vol 1

Making of Red Bugatti

Artist planning to model a Bugatti for a long time ago. The time arrived last month when he stayed 3 full weeks without a freelance work.

Making of Red Bugatti

Video Tutorial: Rendering a Toy in V-Ray

In this 1 hour video tutorial you will learn how to create some complex Vray materials and works with vray render elements

Video Tutorial: Rendering a Toy in V-Ray

Making of Ibaloy Warrior

This tutorial will explain how artist was able to make this piece. There’s nothing special about the process of making it. It was just a product of right and correct composition, color, and lighting

Making of Ibaloy Warrior

Interview with Marshall Womack (Fossil Software)

Interview with Environment Artist Marshall Womack, workins as Chief Creative Officer of Fossil Software, an iPhone development company

Interview with Marshall Womack (Fossil Software)

Making of What are they Staring at?

What are they staring at has been created to improve artistic skills at environmental design and ended up as a personal piece which really liked by artist

Making of What are they Staring at?

Interview with Joe Fenton

After studying sculpting at the Wimbledon School of Art in the UK, went on to work for a few years in the film industry

Interview with Joe Fenton

TRANSFORMERS: FALL OF CYBERTRON Teaser

Powerful and dark, with a filmic look and feel, the :90 piece hooks gamers with emotional imagery, a haunting track and redemptive story

TRANSFORMERS: FALL OF CYBERTRON Teaser

Video Tutorial: Modeling the Crystal Chandelier

In this 45 min video tutorial we will learn how to model a Crystal Chandelier in 3ds Max. This tutorial will only covers the modeling part.

Video Tutorial: Modeling the Crystal Chandelier

Making of Iron Asylum

This Work is based on Jerry Beck concept. His character was comic style and I wanted to make it more realistic but still keeping it a bit of stylized.

Making of Iron Asylum

Getting Acquainted With the 3D Generation

Whether 3D moves beyond a stylistic evolution and becomes a revolution, though, has yet to be seen. As some developers and players note, the unique visual effect of 3D -- with the initial disorientation of viewing a scene with an illusion of depth and then continuing to direct the action

Getting Acquainted With the 3D Generation

CGArena: CG Magazine Dec - Jan 12 Issue

Another issue of free animation PDF magazine free issue is out and available for download. Hope you will enjoy reading this issue ...

CGArena: CG Magazine Dec - Jan 12 Issue

CryEngine 3 - Vol 1-2-3 - Intro and Application

In this first DVD of our series, Hélder Pinto starts by walking you through many of the common features of CryENGINE 3 SDK like Customizing the User Interface, Folder Structure, Viewports, Entities, Panels, Objects and much more.

In this second DVD of our series, Hélder Pinto continues where he left off on the creation of an entire level from scratch. Hélder starts off by placing particles in the scene and then goes into the “Boids” system to place things like flocks of birds.

In this third DVD of our series, Helder Pinto goes into more intermediate and advanced topics now that the first level is complete. Hélder starts off by explaining how to create and add custom decals, roads, and terrain layers to the level.

CryEngine 3 - Vol 1-2-3 - Intro and Application

Pixomondo Leads VFX for Martin Scorsese's HUGO

Pixomondo completed over 800 shots as the primary visual effects vendor on Martin Scorsese’s 3D epic adventure, Hugo.

Pixomondo Leads VFX for Martin Scorsese's HUGO

FumeFX December Sale

From Dec 1st and ending on Dec 31st 2011, FumeFX will be sold at $777 in CGArena Store + Will receive free upgrade to FumeFX 3.0

http://www.cgarena.com/store/fumefx21

Submit your Artwork for 2012 Calendar

The 2012 Calendar Wallpaper is a great way to inspire artists to create something on which whole community can proud. Once again, We hope you will consider being a part of the 2012 calendar by submitting your entries!

Submit your Artwork for 2012 Calendar

nDo2 is Released Now

nDo2 is out of beta and in stores NOW! It's built from the ground up, fully integrated into Photoshop, in real-time 3D.

nDo2 is Released Now

Review: Sony Cybershot DSC HX100v

This camera is lightweight and compact making it an ideal camera for those looking to travel. If Sony provides some firmware updates and improve the slow startup time

Review: Sony Cybershot DSC HX100v

Photo-Real Stone Ruins in Photoshop

When you understand how colour works inside a shaded areas and in the lit areas, and then apply that in your paintings, you can start to see photo-real lighting emerges

Photo-Real Stone Ruins in Photoshop

History of 3D in a nutshell

And this is definitely not the end. In 2011 the manufacturers of video-game consoles announced that the next generation of consoles will focus on 3D.

History of 3D in a nutshell

Short Film: Jolie Bobine

Set in a colorful childish universe, Jolie Bobine is a short film which tells the story of a small doll with the gift of life who will enthralled with a ballerina.

Short Film: Jolie Bobine

MPC Digs Deep for Nintendo DS Fossil Fighters Champions

MPC pulled off a stunning bit of 3D magic in a promo for Nintendo's Fossil Fighters Champions, a new game for the handheld DS videogame system.

MPC Digs Deep for Nintendo DS Fossil Fighters Champions

70 Panoramic Images for free Download

Free download of panoramic images, which you can use freely in your projects. Some are really massive & more than 10,000 px wide

70 Panoramic Images for free Download

MPC LA and London Work Across Oceans to Show how DIRECTV Viewers Can Freeze Time

We've seen robots fighting in a kitchen, 17th century lovers chasing one another through a woman's home, and a fireman rescue a child

MPC LA and London Work Across Oceans to Show how DIRECTV Viewers Can Freeze Time

Digital Domain Builds an Off-Kilter World for Carl Rinsch and Mercedes’ AR Campaign

Shot in Hong Kong and Los Angeles, “The Escape” has viewers wake up inside a live action world inspired by Google Street View where things aren’t quite right

Digital Domain Builds an Off-Kilter World for Carl Rinsch and Mercedes’ AR Campaign

Interview with Justin Holt

Justin Holt is a texture painter and worked on various films like Hulk, Happy Feet, The Kingdom, Rango, Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn...

Interview with Justin Holt

Making of Amazons Vs. The Sea Monsters

This painting started out as a quick sketch and artist did on a scrap of paper at work. I liked the composition and continued to refine the sketch into a cleaner drawing.

Making of Amazons Vs. The Sea Monsters

Cracked Stone - Part 3 in ZBrush, 3ds Max

Damaged and cracked stone can look very different depending on the underlying structure (are there reinforcement metal bars underneath, gravel or perhaps just a more sandlike material

Cracked Stone - Part 3 in ZBrush, 3ds Max

Stardust Delivers Multiple Realities to Let Consumers ‘Coupe’ their Lives for Mercedes-Benz

Innovative creative studio Stardust collaborated with the digital visionaries at Razorfish to create an interactive campaign for Mercedes-Benz USA

Stardust Delivers Multiple Realities to Let Consumers ‘Coupe’ their Lives for Mercedes-Benz

Interview with Andy Walsh

Andy Walsh, a graphic designer in North Wales. He spent the last 10 years in various forms of graphic design and recently went freelance

Interview with Andy Walsh

Zombie Portrait in Photoshop

Artist made a lot of mistakes while trying to get this zombie painting right and he wanted to share those with you so you can avoid them in the future.

Zombie Portrait in Photoshop

PandaPanther Soars with Activision's Skylanders Spyro's Adventure Promotion

2 min promo spot for Activision\'s new entertainment property Skylanders: Spyro\'s Adventure, which was recently releaseda

PandaPanther Soars with Activision's Skylanders Spyro's Adventure Promotion

Making of the Futuristic City

This is not a video tutorial, so artist could not express all the detailed painting and adjustment processes, however covered as much as possible with the key steps involved in the making.

Making of the Futuristic City

Making of Knight

This piece was inspired by the fantastic novels of J.R.R.Tolkien. When painting the illustrations, then utilize novels, movies and comics as the source of idea

Making of Knight

Rough Stone - Part 1 in ZBrush, 3ds Max

In this tutorial I am going to go through the steps you could use to create a rough stone material.

Rough Stone - Part 1 in ZBrush, 3ds Max

Interview with Paradox Interactive

It seems unbelievable that a company that specializes in hardcore, complex turn-based historical strategy games can be successful in this day and age

Interview with Paradox Interactive

Ingenuity Engine Delivers Smokin’ Stereo VFX for “A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas”

Working with production VFX Supervisor David Goldberg, Ingenuity Engine VFX Supervisors David Lebensfeld and Grant Miller created 125 visual effects shots that take Harold and Kumar across New York City to find a Christmas tree

Ingenuity Engine Delivers Smokin’ Stereo VFX for “A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas”

Making of The Confrontation in Photoshop

Jone always been inspired and fascinated by dinosaurs and prehistoric creatures, so for this painting, I wanted to create an adventure based fantasy piece.

Making of The Confrontation in Photoshop

Blind Takes Sloth to Costa Rica

Created in partnership with Atlanta-based advertising agency 22squared, the trio of Gift of Happiness spots features the laidback spokesanimal hanging in front of iconic Costa Rican scenes

Blind Takes Sloth to Costa Rica

MPC Helps Mercedes-Benz Blow the Doors Off the Competition

The MPC team put together an impressive array of motion control, CG and other effects for the new campaign.

MPC Helps Mercedes-Benz Blow the Doors Off the Competition

Particle Flow Toolbox#2: Velocity Sculpting/RayFire Fragmenter/PhysXplosion Prevention

It's almost a 50 min tutorial about using geometry to sculpt your explosion and velocities using the PFlow Toolbox#2 and #3 in canon.

Particle Flow Toolbox#2: Velocity Sculpting/RayFire Fragmenter/PhysXplosion Prevention

Digital Domain Brings Movie-Scale Stereo Effects to “2 Worlds” for Sony

a 60 second spot that features movie-scale visual effects and handles stereo 3D artfully to shatter the barrier between story and audience.

Digital Domain Brings Movie-Scale Stereo Effects to “2 Worlds” for Sony

r|Shaders

r|shaders is a collection of procedural shaders for 3ds max. The 1st release named "Core Zero" will be the foundation version and it will includes 8 different shaders to give the possibility to create many kinds of natural surfaces.

r|Shaders

Create the Matte Metal

In this tutorial I will describe my workflow for a pretty typical metal plate wall. I will use 3ds Max and Photoshop to create this material.

Create the Matte Metal

Making of Concept Car

Artist placed this new car in a new environment to learn how to place the lights, exposure and so on

Making of Concept Car