Monday, April 16, 2007

Sonicwall protects WoW players

Sonicwall internet threat prevention protects customers against exploits targeting World of Warcraft players

http://www.cgarena.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2409

Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Making of The Age of Numeron

Numeron was kingdom described by Tolkien in his books and this image is inspired from the lord of the rings

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

Realistic Lighting with LDRI

LDRI images which will help us to get the lighting similar to the lighting with hdri images

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

Monday, April 09, 2007

Painting Kadaj in Painter

Aulia Ully Rahmi explained step by step procedure how painted the Kadaj image in painter

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/painter/kadaj/

Saturday, April 07, 2007

Mental Ray Illumination Tutorial

Tutorial which simulates the illumination techniques of a photo studio. Ideal for Industrial/ Product/ Furniture Design

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

Thursday, April 05, 2007

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/

Wednesday, March 28, 2007

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/

Friday, March 23, 2007

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/

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

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

Saturday, March 17, 2007

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/

Wednesday, March 14, 2007

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/

Tuesday, March 13, 2007

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/

Monday, March 12, 2007

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/

Wednesday, March 07, 2007

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/

Tuesday, March 06, 2007

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/

Friday, March 02, 2007

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/

Thursday, March 01, 2007

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/