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All posts for the day January 9th, 2011

Create an Awesome Pinboard Effect in Houdini
CG Tuts+ Premium Content

This week Cgtuts+ brings you another amazing two part, in-depth Houdini tutorial, available exclusively to our Premium subscribers. The tutorial follows Houdini artist Alvaro Castaneda as he walks us through the creation of this awesome animated pinboard scene. Today?s part covers the creation of the model, whilst part 2 goes on to look at animation and rendering. We know you?re going to love it!

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Create A Super Realistic Day For Night Shot Day
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This tutorial demonstrates how to turn some generic daytime footage into a beautiful day-for-night shot. We will make use of a variety of techniques to get to usable mattes, work with solids & adjustment layers and even dip into the 3d-space for some advanced relighting.

In the first part, after a short introduction we will evaluate the footage, fix some minor issues before moving on to generate a number of mattes in different ways for us to use on day two. In the second part we are going to grade the source footage to night time and with the help of the mattes generated on day one we will relight the scene using also different methods for different lightsources in the image. On this final part we now generate and integrate the moving lights on and from the vehicles, perform some last adjustments and finish the shot.

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Over the course of this extremely detailed 2 day tutorial series, we will be modelling the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 in Maya. Not only will we be covering the basic workflows involved in creating a hyper-realistic car from scratch, but we?ll also be showing you some of the more common mistakes that artists are prone to make when modelling extremely high-end photo-realistic cars.

In the second part of this extremely detailed 2 day tutorial series, we?ll be finishing the modeling of the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 in Maya. These tutorials not only cover the basic workflows involved in creating a photo-realistic car from scratch, but also show you some of the more common mistakes that artists are prone to make when modelling extremely high-end photo-realistic cars.

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You asked for it, and Madhan_2005 has delivered! Over the course of this amazing tutorial series, Madhan will be walking us through how he modelled and rendered a photorealistic Audi R8 using 3Ds Max, after which you?ll be well equipped to create your very own dream cars! This tutorial series is a must-watch for any artists looking to expand their portfolio and learn the sought-after art of car creation.

On day 2 of this amazing tutorial series, Madhan continues to walk us through how he modelled this photorealistic Audi R8 using 3Ds Max. This second part (6 videos in total including an updated reference image pack) concentrates on completing the overall body work, after which we begin to add in the details. This tutorial series is a must-watch for any artists looking to expand their portfolio and learn the sought-after art of car creation!

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Today we have 41 awesome, high resolution dirty wall and brick textures available exclusively to Premium members. These images are all based on original photos taken by CGTuts+ author Chandan Kumar, and are presented at a full 3K resolution ready for all of your closeup renders. Also included in the pack is a 3Ds Max tutorial showing one way of using the images in your projects! We can?t wait to see how you use this brand new Premium texture-pack! Click the title now to download!

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Today we have 20 incredibly useful high resolution sky textures available exclusively to Premium members. These images are all based on original photos taken by CGTuts+ author Stefan Surmabojov, and can be used in multiple applications whether for LDR lighting, reflection maps, textures or during the final compositing stages. If you ever need realistic skydomes or backgrounds in your CG art, then this content pack is perfect for you! Learn more after the jump!

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Today we have 20 incredible high resolution concrete texture sets available exclusively to Premium members. Hand crafted from original photos by CGTuts+ author Clinton Jones, each of the 20 texture packs contains all of the different passes required to render stunning materials in all rendering engines. If you ever use realistic textures in your CG art, then this content pack is perfect for you!

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Today, for the first time ever on CGTuts+, we have 20 incredible high resolution metal texture sets available exclusively to Premium members. Hand crafted from original photos by CGTuts+ author Clinton Jones, each of the 20 texture packs contains 4 high resolution metal textures. If ever you expect to use realistic metal textures in your CG art, then this content pack is perfect for you!

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