After 5 years the new short movie direct by Marco Spitoni is finally out! C.O.D.E. Guardian is his name and it was realized in the spare time, as Marco said on his site.
This 3d animation is a wonderful job, anyway a lot of us already knew Marco with the last work: The Hunt.
This movie […]

Here the second scene made with Vray sun, this time we have a different atmosphere: the sunset!
It’s very easy to use it, you just need to download it, starting 3d studio max and go testing changing all the parameters with fantasy!
The V-ray parameters aren’t not so different from the last scene, the most important change […]

In the last file I showed you how to set VrayDisplacement to obtain realistic grass or carpets. It’s a good solution for middle camera shots.
But how can do if your grass is really near to the camera? You need more details to obtain a realistic render, so it’s time to use Vray Fur!
if you need […]

Vray displacement is a very helpful modifier if you want to give more realism to your scene creating 3d grasses and carpets. Not just using textures…
VRayDisplacementMod modifier uses an assigned texture to extrude polygons during the rendering, in fact this modifier doesn’t produce effects in the viewports.
For examples to create a good 3d […]

I think Vray sun it’s the most important new feature in vray 1.5 but maybe it’s hard to set at the beginning.
But now your troubles are finished: you can download here my free Vray sun scene already setted. The result you will see clicking on Rendering botton will be the same you see […]

Some times there is same contest about girl made in 3d or 2d… in these contests great cg artists partecipate, and it’s so hard to choose the best 3d model!
The most famous contest in the world is “The most beautiful CG Girl“, powered by 3dm3. in In this kind of contest there are various girls’ […]

In Photoshop cs2 you can find a new feature named Vanish point.
If you want to replace same parts of your picture but you have problems with perspective, for exemple with bricked wall or wood floor, you can easly do it using the new option: Vanish point!
You can create your reference grid and use replacement […]

I played with Vray shader options and I realized a Rusty metal shader.
I would to share it with you!
I used Blend shader to mix to different material: metal chrome and rusty surface. Metal chrome has a simple setting (reflection 100%) as a mirror. Rusty material has a texture a little bit bumped by itself. […]

Download V-ray setted scene and just clic render button!
I would to share with you an interior scene, setted for Vray engine render. It works with V-ray 1.47 and V-ray 1.5 too.
My settings is very simple: I used 5 vray lights, one direct light to simule the sun (in this version I don’t use Vray […]

Neox, an user from Treddi.com (italian forum), realized a videotutorial showing step by step how to model a tiled roof with 3ds max.
Modeling this kind of Roof is a very annoying thing, becouse in order to abtain a beautiful model you have to model tile by tile and you can’t use bump mapping or […]