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Tutorials


Tutorial: Creating Waterfall

In this beginners tutorial learn how to create a waterfall in 3ds max using particle system



Video Tutorial: Female Face Modeling

You cant get a better than this free video tutorial for female face modeling in 3ds max




Video Tutorial: Interior Lighting by using Mental Ray

This tutorial will explain you how to use Sunlight, Skylight in the daylight interior scene and later color correction




Tutorial: Create Glowing Material

Glowing materials are very useful to create light effects, specially neon-light effect




Tutorial: Create Ocean

This tutorial just give you an idea how you can create an ocean with few simple steps



Tutorial: Developing Scripted Utility

This tutorial will guide you to develop a scripted utility in 3ds max 9, basic knowledge of maxscript required




Video Tutorial: Capture Light Color and Intensity

In these 2 short video tutorials learn how you can create a blinking disco lights in 3ds max by Aziz Khan




Tutorial: Interactive Video: Create Gold Material

In this interactive video not only learn but also create a material online with instructions in 3ds max



Tutorial: Model a Golden Jaguar Statue

In this beginners tutorial you will create a jaguar statue using polygons in 3ds max and later create a gold texture




Tutorial: Create Displacement Maps using Max, Mental Ray and Mudbox

In this tutorial successfully create detailed displacement maps using max, mental ray and mudbox




Tutorial: How to create Clouds?

Learn to create a fly-through of a realistic cloud tunnel that renders relatively fast using 3D Studio Max



Tutorial: Head Modeling

This tutorial will describe how modelled the character from a sketch using edge loop method in 3ds max



Tutorial: Modeling the Hair Dryer

In this step by step tutorial we model a hair dryer and learn about mesh smooth and edge usage in 3ds max



Video Tutorial: Understanding Light Cache in Vray

This 5 minutes video tutorial will help you in how to extract the best results from the light cache in vray



Video Tutorial: Modeling the Temple

This tutorial will help in model the temple using max and zbrush and then light the temple and render



How to create Chrome Material?

Florence Design Academy written a new tutorial which explained how to create popular chrome material in 3ds max



Studio Lighting for Vehicle Rendering

Learn how to setup a studio lighting rig in 3ds max that used mainly for vehicle rendering in production environment



Video Tutorial: Interior Lighting using Vray

This video tutorial will cover the interior lighting, materials & rendering (explained color mapping, gamma)



Video Tutorial: Basic Head Rigging

Created by artist Loocas Duber from Duber Studios in 3ds max and given to CGArena for celebrating 10,000 members




Tutorial: Car Paint: Modern Materials of the Product & Industrial Design Field

Florence Design Academy written a tutorial on how to create car paint material in 3ds max




Video Tutorial: Rendering Objects using Vray

This video tutorial is created by artist Giorgio Luciano and covers caustics, reflections, GI...



Tutorial: Modeling and Rendering of a Mercedes S600

Not exactly a step by step tutorial about polygon car modeling, its more of an overview of the process and tips




Tutorial: Z4 Unleashed: Car Modeling Tutorial

The snatch of this car was and binding by chains, but Z4 can breaking this chain, so Z4 unleashed



Tutorial: Sticky Fluids in Glu3d and Pflow

Create a sticky fluids effect using fluid simulation software glu3d and later explain the same thing with pflow



Tutorial: Interior Illumination

This tutorial is ideal for illumination of a living room, kitchen, bed room which is illuminated by sunlight



Tutorial: Making a Anemone in Realflow

This time I try to explain making anemone in Realflow, the important thing is to know in clearly that what we looked for to create



Tutorial: Making a Sideshow Bob (Modeling, Rigging, Skinning)

Artist Jalo explained the concept behind the sideshow bob and how to create a rigging and skinning of character



Tutorial: Create Easter Color Egg

In this tutorial I will show you how we can create an egg and how we can make texture for it by using various softwares



Tutorial: Studio Lighting in Vray

With the knowledge of this tutorial you will be able to present your models in a more ambitious way than before



Tutorial: Mental Ray Illumination

Tutorial which simulates the illumination techniques of a photo studio. Ideal for Industrial/ Product/ Furniture Design



Tutorial: Illuminate Interior using Exterior Light source

We will illuminate the scene with the help of one light source and one HDRI



Tutorial: Breaking the Stone

Breaking any object and then animate the fragments manually is a tedious task so here comes dynamics



Tutorial: Project Setup/Management

This tutorial for those aren´t blessed with an alienbrain server and haven't set up Asset Tracking yet



Tutorial: UV Mapping - The Easy Way

In this 3ds max tutorial demonstrate how simple and precise UVmapping can be using DeepUV



Tutorial: Architectural Visualization using HDRI and Vray

In this tutorial Illuminate an exterior architectural scene with help from Vray and a HDR image



Tutorial: Create Neon Light with Vray

Read the simple tutorial on creating neon lights in 3ds max using vray material and renderer



Tutorial: Modeling Calculator

Beginners step by step detailed tutorial on how to model and texture a calculator in 3ds max



Tutorial: Particle Planting

Plant 44000 stadium chairs with 4 different materials through particle flow and maxscript



Tutorial: Understanding IES Lights

Understand how IES lights works with the help of small and sweet tutorial



Tutorial: Creating Tree in 3ds Max 9

Read another tutorial by our forum member on how to create a tree using Hair and Fur plugin



Tutorial: Create Rock in 3ds Max

There are lot of ways to create rocks but our forum member explain simple way of creating rocks in max



Tutorial: Create Fluid in Realflow

Complete tutorial on how to create a fluid in reaflow, then import in max and give textures, rendering through maxwell



Tutorial: Pflow Trajectory displayed with splines

This tutorial deals with Particle Flow in 3D Studio MAX in conneciton with a little MAX Scripting to create a outstanding image.



Tutorial: Mapping through Reactor Cloth

Every model required lot of tweaking to remove the stretching in mapping, so how reactor cloth can be useful



Video Tutorial: Modeling of Nokia 6670

After watching these videos you should end up with a photorealistic replica of the real model in your scene. The credit of these videos goes to Loocas Duber



Video Tutorial : Glu3d in Fluids Simulation ( No Audio)

These videos shows fluids simulation with the help of Glu3d Plug-in by 3daliens in max, working knowledge of Glu3d is necessary for properly understanding of these videos




Tutorial : 72 DPI or 300 DPI

Have you ever asked to your client "What resolution do you want it?" he responds, "Make it 300 DPI"(dots per inch). Video and 3D Animation work in Pixels. Many times, animators render out a 3000 by 2000 pixel image, bring it into their imaging program, and it reads 72 dpi. This is inaccurate...



Tutorial : Resolution and Compression

Resolution, Rendering, Compression makes the animators, digital filmmaker's life hell that traditional filmmakers do not have to deal with. So, let's talk about it...



Tutorial : Vector Rendering in Mental Ray

Ok, you want your rendering in vector format, no problem you can do in 3dsmax 6 or above. Open your model in 3dsmax 6 or above...



Tutorial : Common Problems faced by 3ds max users

There are lots of general problems in max that was facing by max users in their training and during job but sometimes some problems left unsolved due to various reasons but today I take few of them and try to solve it...



Tutorial : What is Z-Depth?

Today, I will explain to you guys what is Z Depth. Because many of you will undoubtedly not be familiar with z-maps, their creation, or their use. The term z-map might be a little misleading to those who are not familiar...



 
 
 
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