ZBrush sculptor and resident artist at Blur Studios, Simon Blanc takes you step by step through the creation of his work entitled No More Wine. After creating his base mesh, Simon will then use an assortment of powerful sculpting brushes to bring the final character to life.
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!
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!
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!
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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Luxology’s Modo is one of the newer tools in the CG, Design and Architectural visualization world, but has quickly gained a wide user base. Modo is a very powerful polygonal and subdivision modeler that has a great texture painting and sculpting module, object animation tools and a superb renderer, all under a very intuitive and user-friendly interface. This DVD, with over six hours of material, explores the workflow and features in Modo.
This week Cgtuts+ brings you the first in a brand new, multi-part series from regular author Chris Tate, available exclusively to our Premium subscribers. The tutorial follows Chris as he walks us through modeling, UVing, texturing and rendering of this amazingly detailed, and strikingly accurate Civil War Cannon. Today we begin the modelling process, and we know you?re going to love it!
NewTek LightWave 10 delivers a whole new set of groundbreaking tools for 3D artists. Whether you work alone or play well with others, LightWave 10 has the tools you need to turn your dreams into gorgeous graphics and amazing animation for film, television, print, design ? or simply to satisfy your desire to create something really cool. LightWave 10 gives you more speed, flexibility and control, along with new, interactive tools that let you model, render and animate, quickly and affordably. Plus, LightWave artists have won more Emmy? Awards for visual effects and animation than any other CG artists. Now that?s cool.
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Brandon Young presents his production FX workflow by reconstructing a shot from the Dragon Age: Origins cinematic created at Blur Studio. He goes over the shot breakdown, the goals of the shot and how to achieve them quickly. Brandon shows how to use Particle Flow, FumeFX and stock elements to make the effects shine. He then delves into rendering and compositing the effects elements into the actual production shot.
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