Matte painting? What’s Matte painting?
Matte Painting it’ s a very useful and powerful technic to create imaginary landscapes.
As you can read on Wikipedia:
Mattes Painting: it’s used in photography and special effects filmmaking to combine two or more image elements into a single, final image. Usually, mattes are used to combine a foreground image (such as […]

OceanWaves is a very, very interesting plugin to simulate…. Ocean Waves, obvious!
It’s created by Charles Hollemeersch and it’s incredible how it get a ocean model so similar from the real ocean waves!
This 3D Studio Max plugin adds a new geometry object which generates a statistically generated ocean wave suface. It allows you to set parameters […]

< A great explanation of V-ray settings, parameter by parameter, to understand it in deep. >
There’s no just english sites to find a great educational material, but you can find in many parts of the world people producing excellent tutorials.
This time we’re going to Spain!
Few years ago, Pedro Saiz Bilbao realized a very […]

A reader ask to me why the RPC (Rich Photorealistic Content) doesn’t project shadows using V-ray.
Yes, it’s right. There’s some problem using both RPC and V-ray. When I had the same problem I must retouched the render with Adobe Photoshop. That was the only solution I found.
But not any RPC Archvision library has the same […]

<< This is Sparta! >>
This is the famous sentence from the movie “300″. As you can notice there’s a very massive use of visual effects (vfx) in the movie… surely, the most famous of this effects is Time Remapping.
This technic is often used in fighting scenes and it consists in going slowly and suddenly […]

Who doesn’t know it, car drivers provoking each other at the traffic lights to have a race? But what about such a race with two old and shabby jumbo jets on an airport runway? That sounds more like a film - or a computer game.
That’s the short movie Racing Beats, it has gone on […]

Autodesk starts a tour in Europe, don’t miss this event:
Autodesk® invite you to a special morning with Uniform. Sam O’Hare and Nick Bentley will be taking us through two of their most recent projects: Blyth Road and Crystal. We also invite you to hear from the Autodesk […]

Same days ago Autodesk published the new service pack for 3d studio max 9: the service pack 2.
The most important fixed bugs are about Windows Vista compatibility.
This upgrade modifiers these areas: Animation, Backburner, Batch Rendering, Biped, Editable Poly, Editable Mesh, Hair, Materials, Maxscript, mental ray, Reactor, Render to Texture, SDK and UV […]

To obtain a good rendering it’s not just parameters and settings knowledges, but it’s something like the real photo: light composition, shade and scene composition.
So to make a good rendering we have to create a good photographic set and put our object in.
I found a excellent tutorial on cgindia.org: how to make a perfect digital […]