3D modeling Tutorials tools
Get flash to fully experience Pearltrees
Vue XStream
Houdini
2D to 3D extraction software
3D printers
QUIDAM
Video to 3D minipulation
Last week I attended SIGGRAPH 2010, and among the many good presentations, Valve game a talk on the simple water shader they implemented for Left For Dead 2 and Portal 2. So on the plane ride back from LA, I whipped up this little sample from what I could remember of the talk. Edit: You can find the talk here: http://advances.realtimerendering.com/s2010/index.html The standard technique for animated water is scrolling normal maps, as I’ve previously written about. The problem with this is that it looks unnatural as water does not uniformly move in one direction. So Valve came up with the idea of using flow maps ( based on a flow viz paper from the mid 90s ).
Animating Water Using Flow Maps
With the variable plethora of different applications, scripts, tools, plugins, platforms, engines, and packages available on the market today, how is an aspiring 3D artist (or a seasoned professional for that matter) to know which package he or she ought to be using? In this article I have attempted to do some of the heavy lifting for you, and narrowed this list down to what is, in my opinion, the top 15 applications out there for 3D artists right now.
Top 15 Applications for 3D Artists
ZBRUSH 3D modeling software Tuts
3DS Max
Game development
SketchUp 3D Google
3D forums
Maya
RenderMan
3D Perspective
There is a very simple rule that applies in every image and it can make your subjects really appear like they were originally in the shot. [tweetmeme]In movies the best special effects are the ones you can’t detect. In photomontage applies the same.
How to correctly position subjects in an image
Cinema 4D
LightWave3D
Apple Motion Tutorials
Modo
GroBoto 3D modeler
Amazing Examples of 3D
Animation Mentor
General tips to 3D modeling
Blender
Bryce
CrazyBump Displacement map generator
AutoDesk
Quidam
Mental Ray
FREE 3D SOFTWARE !
CB Model Pro
Creature Creator instant modeling
XNormal mapping
Models
Model mesh rigging
DeepUV
Mixamo Auto Rigger
Sampad modeling
3DCoat
3D anatomy
Make Human Project software
Daz 3D modeler
Poser 3D body etc..
iClone
Facegen modeller
FaceShop
Crazy Talk