Tutorials

Would you like to create tutorial for CGArena?  Just create a tutorial in Max, Maya, Photoshop, After Effects, Zbrush, Softimage XSI or Digital Fusion and get rewards plus also get Attention in the Computer Graphics community. Please send an email to discuss your idea before start creating the tutorial/making.

Maya



Tutorial: How to Build - A Next Gen Game Car

This tutorial is intended to present a method of creating a next gen vehicle asset in maya

Build Game Car

Tutorial: Making of Steam Master - Next-Gen Game Head

This tutorial will present the workflow used by the character artists when creating a Next Gen character


Steam Master

Tutorial: Making of Gladiator

Artist from France share the experience and techniques used in creation of this heavy scene using Maya, Photoshop

gladiator

Tutorial: Understanding Lights in Maya - Part 4

In this tutorial we will light up an interior scene which should help you understand how lights works

lights

Tutorial: Understanding Lights in Maya - Part 3

In this tutorial series we will try to understand the Area Light and Volume Light in Maya

lights

Tutorial: Understanding Lights in Maya - Part 2

In this part we will explore Point Light and the Spot Light in Maya, this tutorial is very helpful in understanding lights


lights

Tutorial: Understanding Lights in Maya - Part 1

In this series we will explore maya each and every available light. This tutorial cover Ambient and Directional light

lights

Video Tutorial: Setting up Depth of Field

This 4 min beginners video tutorial without voice will explain you how to setup the Depth of Field in Maya

depth of field

Tutorial: Making of Ingrid Bergman

Ingrid Bergman, a film actress and artist used screen captures from the movies to model beautiful actress in 3d

ingrid bergman

Tutorial: Making of Quiet Room

Used Autodesk Maya to model all of the objects and used Photoshop to do the texturing in this project


quiet rom

Tutorial: Character Base Mesh Modeling

This is a small tutorial for quick character base mesh modeling and can be created in any 3d package

character base mesh

Video Tutorial: Create Fire

In this video tutorial learn how to create fire effect from scratch using Maya particle system



Tutorial: Making of the Fruit Tarts

In this detailed tutorial learn how to create a photorealistic food using Maya, Photoshop and Mental Ray




Tutorial: Model a Spitfire War Plane

In this tutorial learn how to model a spit fire war plane, pretty handy for those who are in love with old war planes




Tutorial: Making of Tiger Zoo

Used real life references from the Thailand Zoo to create this wonderful artwork in maya



Tutorial: Making of Varga

Summarize the workflow used for one of my characters with lots of images and print-screens directly from the applications used



Video Tutorial: Introduction to Maya

Tutorial outlines the interface and basics of Autodesk’s Maya 8. It provides an overview of the tools and windows




Tutorial: Making of Cheese Platter

Read the informative detailed making using Autodesk Maya and Adobe Photoshop by Hau Ming




Video Tutorial: Introduction to Custom Props with Maya

This video tutorial shows you to take your 3D model from Maya and turn it into an active video game prop




Tutorial: Secrets of Swimsuit Babe

Making an attractive woman is always a goal for most CG enthusiasts and here are the secrets



Tutorial: Modeling Tire in Maya

This step by step tutorial by Aziz Khan will explain you how to model a tire in autodesk maya



Tutorial: Making of Trapped

Loved those birds and little time ago modeled a Macaw from the photo taken in Bird park




Tutorial: Growing Flowers from surface

In this step by step tutorial create a growing flowers from surface by using Maya Visor




Tutorial: Modeling Volleyball

In this beginners tutorial we will learn another technique about modeling the ball of volleyball sport



Tutorial: Low Poly Character Hair

Main stages for creating hair for game characters using lots of images & some print-screens directly from application



Tutorial: Object Spreading Methods

Learn how to spread objects in maya because maya has not dedicated tools to spread objects



Tutorial: Reaslistic Lighting with LDRI

LDRI Tricks, which will help us to get the lighting similar to the lighting with hdri images



Tutorial: Revolution

Image inspired by fiction story which tells a war between human beings and machines



Tutorial: Expressions

This tutorial is very handy to create, explosions like tank explosion, asteroid explosions in maya



Tutorial: Dome Based Lighting

Learn how to light up your scene using dome based lighting and save lot of your rendering time



Video Tutorial: Create Custom Marking Menu

Making a new marking menu is a two step process. In this video learn how to create in easy and simpliest way



Tutorial: Making of the Gargoyle

As you know mostly artworks one would start off with an idea or a concept sketch and same goes here



Tutorial: Making of End of the Line

Project overview of the railroad disaster image created in maya. This also won the prize in our challenges



Tutorial: 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 suggestions have then don’t hesitate to mail me.



Tutorial: Volumetric Shader through Mental Ray

In this detailed tutorial Silvia Palara explaining about the creating volumetric shader through mental ray




Tutorial: Making of Moff

Detailed tutorial on making of moff in maya by Darren Pattenden, San Francisco




Video Tutorial : Box Modeling a Male (No Audio)

These are In-Depth timelapse videos of my process of modeling a realistic male figure. I used box modeling technique for this particular piece. Started with a cube, roughing out the whole body, then separating rough mesh into different parts.



Tutorial : Making of Skullhead Mobster

I got inspired for this character when I saw a sketch somebody did in my life drawing teacher Stephen's sketchbook. It just clicked me and I thought of making it in CG.



 
 
 
 
 
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