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  1. Quick Tip: Using Value Fields to Enter Calculations in Cinema 4D

    Quick Tip: Using Value Fields to Enter Calculations in Cinema 4D

    Tutorial Beginner

    In this quick tip you’ll learn about an often overlooked feature of Cinema 4D (and many other 3D applications) that allows you to run calculations using...

  2. Recreating Pixar's Wall-e in High Poly Using Maya 2012: Part 7

    Recreating Pixar's Wall-e in High Poly Using Maya 2012: Part 7

    Tutorial Beginner

    In the seventh part of the series, you'll continue working on the upper section of Wall-e's body, and learn how to add additional details. You'll then wrap...

  3. Quick Tip: Create a Great Looking Glittering Flakes Material in Modo

    Quick Tip: Create a Great Looking Glittering Flakes Material in Modo

    Tutorial Beginner

    In author Tomasz Lechociński's latest Modo quick tip, you'll learn how to create an awesome glittering flakes material in Modo 601 using fur. Although...

  4. Creating and Rigging a Non-Deformable Wooden Character in Maya: Part 2

    Creating and Rigging a Non-Deformable Wooden Character in Maya: Part 2

    Tutorial Intermediate

    In part 2 of author Soni Kumari's Non-Deformable Wooden Character series for Maya. You'll create the remaining parts of the character model including the...

  5. UV Mapping a High Poly World War II Willys Jeep in Modo - Part 5

    UV Mapping a High Poly World War II Willys Jeep in Modo - Part 5

    Tutorial Intermediate

    In the fifth and final part of the series, we'll finish up our UVMapping. In this part we'll unwrap the wheels and pack them onto their own UV map, and go...

  6. Building Thor's Hammer in Maya: Part 2

    Building Thor's Hammer in Maya: Part 2

    Tutorial Intermediate

    In the second part of the Thor Hammer tutorial, Chandan Kumar will show you how to unwrap each element of the model and pack the UVs before moving into...

  7. Quick Tip: Create a Cool Looking Sugar Based Material in Modo

    Quick Tip: Create a Cool Looking Sugar Based Material in Modo

    Tutorial Beginner

    In this quick tip, author Tomasz Lechociński will show you how to create a cool sugar based material in Modo 601 using fur. This type of procedural material...

  8. Texture Pack: High-res Signs Volume 2

    Texture Pack: High-res Signs Volume 2

    Tutorial Beginner

    Chandan Kumar has put together another great collection of high resolution street and environment sign textures, ideal for your next exterior or city scene....

  9. Building Thor's Hammer in Maya: Part 1

    Building Thor's Hammer in Maya: Part 1

    Tutorial Intermediate

    In this two-part tutorial, Chandan Kumar will show you how to model, uv map, texture, light and render Thor’s hammer in Maya. In the first part of the...

  10. Game Character Creation Series: Kila Chapter 2 – Low Resolution Modeling

    Game Character Creation Series: Kila Chapter 2 – Low Resolution Modeling

    Tutorial Beginner

    It won`t be long before the next generation of consoles land in our living rooms. Each will come with a promise of more memory, superior processing power and...

  11. Recreating Pixar's Wall-e in High Poly Using Maya 2012: Part 6

    Recreating Pixar's Wall-e in High Poly Using Maya 2012: Part 6

    Tutorial Beginner

    In part 6 of the series, you’ll begin working on the upper section of Wall-e's body. This includes blocking out the overall shape, as well as adding...

  12. Creating an Advanced Hologram Material in UDK

    Creating an Advanced Hologram Material in UDK

    Tutorial Beginner

    In this tutorial we'll be creating an Advanced Hologram Material in UDK, which animates to and fro with the help of Parallax mapping (Bump mapping) in Unreal...