Mental Ray training: A new videoguide to learn the excellent render engine that rendered the cult movie Matrix.
Mental Ray is very power to create special effects and it is excellent working with layered rendering…

Today is the first day of spring! So to celebrate it I want to purpose you same nice collection about 3d spring!

XfrogPlants Billboards: Fruit - This product features 60 billboard props of fruit trees and plants, coming from the much popular and praised XfrogPlants Fruit library.
big trees autumn - The plants show a surprising depth […]

Recently I rendered a lot of 6m x 3m Posters for Buildings under construction… and I want to share with you my idea to choose how many pixels I need setting my rendering panel.
Everyone knows that a book is printed in 300dpi: that’s the best standard resolution.
But if I see this book to 5 […]

[ Vray Tutorial ] - In the 2005 the Nine Inch Nails made a new video: Only. It was a great success, especially among 3d lovers in the world!
Many people like its music, but the 3d lovers like the videoclip because it’s made totally with Vray! Vray Render is the really main actor in this […]

Linear workflow: understand it!
Have you ever wondered why your GI renderings start out so dark? Well, in fact they are not so dark. The problem lies with the display device (the CRT or LCD) and that the software is not making adjustments for the gamma that the displays put on our images.
Look at this tutorial […]

VRayFur is a very simple procedural fur plugin. The fur is generated only during render time and is not actually present in the scene.
Have a look here to understand how to set a scene and create many different landscape changings few parameters. Remember that VRayFur will not work with VRayPlane […]

This short tutorial on how to use VRay’s Global Illumination feature will show you one method for creating realistic looking lighting for a scene.
VRay has many features including the ability to to physically accurate full global illumination, advanced material shaders and enhancements for speeding up rendering time.

Global Illumination tutorial

Free tutorial to model drops.
This is the scene file from his drop tutorial, i have been asked for it so much so i finally decided to upload it. Vray is required to render and you need max 7 to open it. You’ll download the tutorial and the 3ds file too.

The texture is from Mayang.com - […]

As you know I love very much many products that I can buy on the3dstudio.com, and today I found some interesting tutorial that I would to share with you.
All About Car modeling.. for free!

how to setup blueprints in 3D Studio Max
how to map a car with channels
how to model a tire: the thread and a […]

How to model a Cyborg, Caustic Effects with Metal Ray, Illumination and Lighting with Mental Ray and something about setting materials with mental ray is the content of Mario Malagrino Pages.
He works in Florence Design Academy and he prepared these tutorials for his students that use 3d studio 8…
Now is possible to see these […]

Ivy Generator is a free useful plug in to generate complex foliage.
Generating trees and foliage is usually something difficult but it’s very important to give a realist aspect to exterior renderings.
Have a look on this nice tutorial to learn how to make a luffa farm with Ivy Generator. It’s a videtutorial during 28mins… nice to […]

[Modeling] Many models start with a blueprint setup… but what’s means “Blueprint”?
A blueprint is a type of paper-based reproduction usually of a technical drawing documenting an architecture or an engineering design. More generally, the term “blueprint” has come to be used to refer to any detailed plan… and usually these plans have a blue background […]

After I wrote that little nice tutorial about photoretouching it’s the time to have a look on a vectorial graphic.. in two words: Adobe Illustrator!
Adobe Illustrator works with vectors, so it’s not easy to find something to download about.
But there’s a Blog, really interesting Blog I love to read from his start. Here the blogger […]

Even if very often I like to write about Vray or Maxwell don’t forget that 3ds max has a feature called “Advanced Illumination“.
The net is quite plenty of V-ray tutorials, so I like to mark this interesting tutorial, wrote by the Cg Artist Mario Malagrino, about Advanced illumination in 3d studio max.
The subject […]

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 […]

< 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 […]

<< 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 […]

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 […]

A new video tutorial about Maya 3d.
Preparing skin shaders it’s a very complex operation, there are many things to consider.
This is the goal of a new maya video tutorial appeared on GnomonWorkshop, famous site for is excellent video tutorials. I liked very much all vray videos: exteriors and interiors.
In these video tutorials, Alex Alvarez […]

Photoshop tutorial. If you want to render any kind of frosted glass, you have to think about to notable increase of rendering time.
My personal solution is to render “normal” glasses with our render engines, and after abtain any kind of glass playing […]