In this tutorial I will try to summarize what I learned through trial and error about Mental Ray shaders, and how to achieve interesting volumetric effects o...
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Making of The Last Elf
After receiving lots of mails I decided to write a making of The Last Elf in an interviewing way. Hope all of you will like this and if any questions or sugg...
Making of End of the Line
I created this image for the CGArena Haunted challenge and won the second prize. Knowing in advance the theme of the image, I tried to think of what other pa...
Making of the Gargoyle
As with most artworks one would start off with an idea or a concept sketch. As one can see it's really the layout that I choose to follow, as my mouse drawin...
Create Custom Marking Menu
Making a new marking menu is a two step process: first you create the marking menu. Then to actually use the marking menu you assign it to a hotkey or to a r...
Making of Green Frog
Hi, my name is Massimo Righi and I am freelance CG artist form Italy. What I'm going to do, is trying to show you the main steps of how I've made my Male Gre...
Dome Based Lighting
Hello everyone and welcome to Dome Based Lighting tutorial, in this tutorial I will show you how to light up your scene using dome based lighting with Maya 8...
Making of Revolution
My inspiration comes from a fiction story which tells a war between human beings and machines. Human beings were almost extinct. The survivors became stronge...
“Expressions to scale, rotate and spin”
Hello every one!! And welcome to Maya expression tutorial, in this tutorial I will show you how to rotate, scale, and spin your objects thorough expressions ...
Reaslistic Lighting with LDRI
One of the biggest inventions in the last few years in realistic lighting solutions is the appearance of HDRI images and lighting the scenes with them. If yo...
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This is not a step by step tutorial. I will nail down the main stages for creating hair for game characters using lots of images and some print screens direc...
Modeling Volleyball
You guys have learned various techniques about creating a ball but in this beginners tutorial we will learn another technique about modeling the ball of voll...
How to Grow Flowers
Hello everyone and welcome to my growing flowers tutorial!! In this tutorial I will show you how to create growing flowers from surface; the flowers will gra...
Making of Trapped
I have used Maya 8.0 for the modeling (polygonal) and Mental Ray for the rendering. The lighting is given by an HDRI probe and two lights. Background and dep...
Modeling Tire in Maya
Hello Everyone!! And welcome to this sport car tire modeling tutorial, In this tutorial I will show you how to create realistic looking sport car tire in May...