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Pop Quiz When faced with her upcoming thesis project, student Talli Peled found herself inspired by the idea of party animal balloons. She had set out to create a humorous piece and started by imagining a classroom where the teacher and students had balloons for heads. Using a mixture of live action and CG, Talli ended up with an impressive short called Pop Quiz. At Bournemouth, Talli was completing an intense one year visual effects course. Animating the Balloons As Talli began modeling, she set out to create complex and abstract balloons for the more intelligent characters while simple balloons would identify students that were struggling. Typically, Talli rigged the balloons using a simple parenting hierarchy. Lighting the Shots “A real balloon reference was also used for the lighting. The first step in recreating the lighting in CG was to replicate the reflection in the real balloon by creating dummy geometry. Learning Houdini
Varga Hair Tutorial This tutorial is dedicated to Polycount community. 1.Hairstyles2.Game models approach3.Example of hairstyle 4.Varga You could also check the second part of this tutorial regarding normal mapping(workflow used for Varga ) This is not a step by step tutorial.I will nail down the main stages for creating hair for game characters using lots of images and some printscreens directly from the application used ( maya/photoshop etc ...). The idea for this tutorial came from the polycount forums ; for the Dominance War II contest i joined Polycount team and the folks there asked me if i can make a little tutorial about Varga's hair so here it is ... 1.Hairstyles This tutorial is about women's hair but the technique work for men as well ;is just that i like long hair for women and my Dominance War II entry happened to be a chick. Where do we find interesting hairsyles? Below there are a few variations for the hairstyle , some of them will be covered in this tutorial. Back to menu 2.Game models approach
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45 Useful Cinema 4D Tutorials & Techniques Many of us are well familiar with the 3D technology that has been extensively used in movies and games. There is no second opinion about the outstanding 3D animations and graphics. One of the most powerful 3D applications that is being used nowadays is Cinema 4D that is developed by MAXON Computer GmbH and capable of doing modeling, animation and rendering all in one. In this post, we have compiled a list of more than 40 best Cinema 4D Tutorials that demonstrate some useful and valuable techniques as how to create that amazing Cinema 4D effect. Enjoy learning! Model A Wooden Chair In Cinema4D In this tutorial Dogacan Bilgili will be guiding us through the process of modeling a wooden chair in Cinema4D using a combination of splines, nurbs and the plug-in “PathDeformerLite”. Create a Lava-Ball Scene in Cinema4D In this tutorial fiery tutorial, Ahmed Al Abbasy walks us through how to create this awesome lava-ball scene in Cinema 4D. Making a glass and a wine bottle with C4D Wall Lamp The Worm
3dsMaxing - AudioFloat Controller Nivel: Básico 13/12/2010 Introducción Este tutorial es una introducción tanto a las posibilidades que ofrece el AudioFloat Controller. Como todos los controladores, nos permite manejar una propiedad según una norma, que en nuestro caso es un archivo de sonido. Aunque en el tutorial, sólamente controlemos la altura de una caja, se podría ligar la pista de audio a cualquier otra propiedad (características de objetos, su disposición en el espacio, parámetros de materiales...). En este tutorial vamos a aprender lo más básico, pero también se comentan las opciones adicionales que dan a este controlador un uso más amplio sin aplicarlas a nuestra escena. Este es el efecto que vamos a lograr con el tutorial (tendrás que ir a Youtube porque tiene un fragmento de Superstition de Stevie Wonder): Por supuesto, es la escena más simple que se puede conseguir con este efecto. Preparar la escena Abre 3ds Max si no lo está ya. Asignar el controlador Explorando las posibilidades Click para ampliar
PSG Art tutorial Foreword I believe there is logic behind why a picture works or not. I also believe that humans are meat machines, and that one day computers will be able to emulate humans and what we do. Since logic can be formulated into rules, guidelines and theories, these can be shared. I will attempt to do so here. Note that I have just empirically deduced the theories I present here, and that I'm a highly fallible meat machine. Many rules also play against each other and may cancel each other out, or become invalidated because of a stylistic approach . The far most useful critique I can give developing artist is: Practice. Updates 2012 May02: Clarified stuff in the Terminology section. Table of contents Licence This tutorial is, in its current form, free to translate and 'mirror' in that form. Because I may be updating it and new versions are generally better, I'd rather not have it mirrored too much. I guess this licence comes pretty close: Terminology (Upd. 2012) Seeing (Upd. 2012) Light stuff Exposure
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