April animation Magazine Issue

Lots of information, tutorials, interviews gallery and most important this is absolutely free

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/ezine/apr07_issue.html

Making of Kingdom of Fruits

Making of Kingdom of Fruits in 3dsmax by the artist from Iran

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/max/fruitskingdom/

Punishment 3D challenge winners announced

Proudly announce the winners of the punishment 3D challenge which is very successful in terms of quality

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

Making of The Revenge of Snowman

I am going to try and explain the process of making the image for the Winter Challenge presented by CGArena

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/winterchallenge/snowman/

Fire Escape in Photoshop

The first step in all paintings, whether it is a character or an environment, is to lay down the basic shapes

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/photoshop/fireescape/

Caustics through mental Ray

Caustics are really great light effects that you can observe in liquids, glass objects and gems

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/max/caustics/index.html

CGArena: New 3D and 2D Challenge

CGArena is proud to present “Nightmare” (3D and 2D Challenge), 21 Mar 2007 - 15 May 2007, sponsored by Corel, Pixologic, Realviz, Skymatter, Hyperfocal Design, 3d.sk, ambientLight, Zoo Publishing, Strata, Vertus, TheBest 3D, Kurv Studios, Daz 3D, Environment-Textures.com, Female-anatomy-for-artist.com, human-anatomy-for-artist.com and ITs Art Magazine. We want different ideas and approaches in a more creative way.

Participate Now: http://forum.cgarena.com/viewtopic.php?t=2145

Interview with Zhang Yang

3D Modeler/ Texture Artist/ Compositor from China which is self taught and use various softwares to achieve the results

http://www.cgarena.com/archives/interviews/zhangyang/

Video Tutorial: Deforming the Head

This video tutorial shows you how to deform the head model in Zbrush and exporting/importing files from/to Maya

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/zbrush/deforminghead/

Making of Arcadia

I saw a picture of some old columns and five minutes later I had my first poor sketch on a piece of paper

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/max/arcadia/

Making of Revolution

This Image inspired by fiction story which tells a war between human beings and machines

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/maya/revolution/

Free Style Painting in Photoshop

This small photoshop tutorial utilise the History Brush to turn any picture or photo into an free style painting

http://cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/photoshop/freestylepainting/

Old Film Look

In this after effects tutorial learn how to give a old film look in just few minutes to the properly shoot new video

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/ae/oldfilmlook/

Expressions in Maya

This tutorial is very handy to create, explosions like tank explosion, asteroid explosions in maya

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/maya/expressions/

Making of Squirrel in Winter

I thought of making an image which was not too complex so I choose a good and simple idea of a squirrel facing winter

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/winterchallenge/squirrel/

Brazil GI Video Tutorial

On request of various users Aziz Khan created a Brazil GI video tutorial once again and this time with voice

http://cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/max/givraymray/brazilGI.html

CGArena February Magazine Issue Released

Like always once again CGArena proudly announce the release of free PDF magazine Issue 2 of this year

Download your copy: http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/ezine/feb07_issue.html

Interview with Andre Kutscherauer

Artist from East Germany which like to design pictures with words and not with clicks

http://www.cgarena.com/archives/interviews/andreKuts/index.html

Illuminate Interior using Exterior Light source

When it comes to lighting a 3D-scene, the light-setup can either make or break the scene's realism

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/max/hdri-vray2/

Breaking the Stone

Breaking any object and then animate the fragments manually is a tedious task so here comes dynamics
http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/max/breakingstone/