Understanding Lights in Maya - Part 1

In this series we will explore maya each and every available light. This tutorial cover Ambient and Directional light

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/maya/understanding_lights/index.html

CGArena: June-July 2008 Magazine Issue Released

June-July 2008 Issue Articles

* Interview with Dario Lanza

* Photoshop: Spring Break

* After Effects: Painting to Reveal Layer

* 3ds Max: Making of Cultural Heritage of Ancient India

* Zbrush: Making of Sculpture

* Maya: Modeling Morgane

* Gallery - Showcase of latest 3D inspiring art


http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/ezine/june2008.html

Making of Urban

In this tutorial learn when your computer is not very strong then still
how to create a beautiful models

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

Poly Modeling in Archviz

This 1 hour long tutorial created in max and vray and covers all small details which need to consider. Actually not a news but hopefully interest many readers.

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/max/archviz/archviz.html

Making of The Jeep Willys MB

Artist want to share with the whole 3D community about the making of Jeep Willys MB

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/xsi/jeepmb/index.html

Setting up Depth of Field in Maya

This 4 min beginners video tutorial will explain you how to setup the Depth of Field in Maya

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/maya/dof/index.html

Painting Little Panda Girl

In this 9 minutes video tutorial Rodny explained how he painted above image in Photoshop. This is simple and step by step high resolution video which is also available for free download for future viewing.

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/photoshop/panda/pandagirl.html

Duplicating and Cloning objects in xsi

Learn how to duplicate objects in SOFTIMAGE|XSI, while acknowledging the difference between duplicating and cloning. We will also discuss duplication options.

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/xsi/i3d/duplicate.html

Interview with Anselm v. Seherr

Interview with VFX Freelancer from Germany with strong preference on particle and simulation FX

http://www.cgarena.com/archives/interviews/anselm/interview.html

Making of Ingrid Bergman

Ingrid Bergman, a film actress and artist used screen captures from the movies to model beautiful actress in 3d

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/maya/ingridbergman/index.html

Making of Angel of War

Like to combine Asian style and Mechanic, the solider of heaven to protect human from devil


http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/photoshop/angelofwar/index.html

Video Tutorial: Creating and Navigating in Hierarchies

Create hierarchies is very important in any 3d application. Learn to create and navigating through a hierarchy in XSI

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/xsi/i3d/hierarchies.html

Making of Guerriero

For concept on this character just wanted to do a mix of a Gears of War/Unreal and Starcraft

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

Painting Weight Maps in XSI

Weight maps is a great feature we can take advantage of to help us in many ways with our projects

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/xsi/i3d/weight_maps.html

Ambient Occlusion with Alpha

This tutorial will tell you how to create ambient occlusion with alpha maps in max with the help of just mental ray

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

Making of Dungeon

Try to explain the creating process of image Dungeon, software used max, vray, photoshop, fusion

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

Creating Waterfall in max

In this beginners tutorial learn how to create a waterfall in 3ds max using particle system

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

Making of Rifleman

Inspiration of this image is taken from warcraft and this image created in 3ds max and Zbrush

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

Making of Lida

want to interpret a new feeling of an old Chinese poem, and try to make it more fantastical, sci-fi and surreal.

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/photoshop/lida/index.html

3D female model inspection

These small video tutorials will help you in how to inspect a 3d female model with references in any package. In this tutorial Jefferey explained the method in Gamespace.

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/misc/gamesspace_modelInspection/index.html