This Overview is about the 3.00am picture which Sebstian N'll and me (David K'tterheinrich) created for 3dTotal.
Lighting
The making of Water World
Hello everyone, in this overview I'll share some of the techniques I used in the creation of this image. I'll cover basics modeling, texturing, lighting and ...
Making of the Box Car
This box car is based on a train model hand painted by Ron Thornton. This project took about a week and a half. I used reference pictures of the model box ca...
Making of Cartoon Character
This tutorial goes over the making of a character.
Basic Outdoor rendering in Mental Ray
In this tutorial you will learn about rendering using Mental Ray. The tutorial focuses on outdoor lighting and rendering.
Global Illumination basics
Currently, one of the best ways of achieving photo-realistic imagery is to render using Mental Ray for Maya. Mental Ray offers a Global Illumination and Fina...
Simple Flash Photography effect
This tutorial will show you how to create a flash that makes your image look like a photograph.
Rendering Diamond Caustics
This tutorial will cover the shader creation and rendering of a diamond which emits correct caustics.
Making of Zhou Zhaung
This making-of walks us through the creation of the Zhou Zhaung image created by Xu Fei. It contains information about texture creation and lighting.
Making of Skullhead Mobster
Hashdeep Borah walks us through the creation of the Skullhead Mobster.
Making of Beanpod Blooming
Wang Xiaoyu walks us through the creation of this piece going over tips for creating eyes and shaders
Maya Flash Photography Effect
This tutorial will teach you how to make your renders look like they are photographs, by adding a flash photography effect to the image.
Maya Diamon Caustics
Rendering a diamond as photo-realistically as possible is a 3D challenge. Light doesn't just bounce off an object; it enters it, bends, changes color, bounce...
Maya Dome lighting
In this tutorial I will show you how to light up your scene using dome based lighting in Maya 8.0. This technique is very efficient render-wise, and will sav...
Maya Basic Lighting
This is hopefully a tutorial covering some basics of lighting in Maya, utilizing Mental Ray. I made this tutorial for someone in a forum and tried to replica...