In this tutorial I will explain how I created the image Dante Alighieri, starting from the modeling which was done in Softimage|XSI, unwrapping with Modo, de...
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Rigging for Moosah & Chub
I knew rigging my Moosah and Chub model would be quite the project, but once I understood some of Softimage XSI's rigging features it went pretty smooth. For...
How to animate Cloth
While I was working on an animation project, I was struggling a little bit on how to get a localized effect on getting cloth simulation to work on a characte...
Creating the Hall
You want to try architectural modeling and rendering in Lightwave? Well this tutorial might get you started then. It takes you through everything step by ste...
Fantasy Letter
This tutorial focuses on heavy texturing now, turning a simple flat plane with a bunch of polygons into an old piece of paper with handwriting on it. 50% of ...
Review on Radiosity and Photorealism
Achieving Photorealism is not something that is easy to do, most people think it's done in the modeling part of your work but in fact modeling is only about ...
A Self Made Man
This tutorial will walk you through the process of creating a cartoon face with techniques that can be applied for creating the ears of the character.
How to Combine a Photo and a CG Object
This tutorial will teach you how to combine and integrate a CG model in a real scene.
Modelling an Ear
In this tutorial you will learn a technique for modeling details that can be applied for many things. Specifically a human ear.
Creating Plants and Flowers
In this tutorial, I hope to demonstrate how easy it is to create detailed flowers and plants that will add a great deal to an image (assuming the image calls...
Modelling the Gokstad-Ship with splines
Karl Stocker walks us through the steps involved in creating a ship model using splines.
Modelling Nissan 350 Z
This tutorial is suitable for beginners to intermediate users of Lightwave 3d and I'm assuming that the basic knowledge from the software is at your hand. Th...
Water Drop
This tutorial will teach you how to create a water drop animation.
Making of Backyard
My little tutorial covers the texturing process of my backyard scene.
Making of Crustation
This is an overview of the steps taken in making this scene, or any scene using Lightwave 3D 7.5, Photoshop, and 3D Total's Texture CD's.