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This tutorial goes through the basics of procedural texturing. That shows how to properly use a mask, how one texture can distort another, how to change the texture mapping, how to mix colors and how to add layers of the pattern above each other Source

Fire up your copy of Autodesk’s 3D animation software and try out one of these high-quality Maya tutorials. Autodesk Maya is one of the go-to packages for 3D artists. In this post, we’ve rounded up the best Maya tutorials to help you make the most of this powerful tool. With its advanced tools and high-end… Continue Reading 15 Mighty Maya Tutorials To Try Today

The early Unity versions’ Legacy Animation System is used in Unity for a wide range of things, such as animating the color of a light or other simple animations on 3D objects in a scene, as well as animating skinned characters for certain kinds of games. In this tutorial, we will look at the basic settings for the Legacy Animation System.… Continue Reading Creating interactive Unity character animations and avatars [Tutorial]

In this video, Jayanam shows a workflow for creating a hardsurface low and high poly model with Blender 2.8 and then texture it with Substance Painter, where he bakes the high poly details into the low poly model to create mesh maps like Normal, Curvature or Ambient Occlusion. Source

SketchUp first came to the spotlight after winning the DigitalCAD Community Choice Award by Digital Media Net at its first trade show. It’s a perfect example of a mix of both simplicity and quality. Since then, the software has been a great help to a lot of users due to its user-friendly interface and short… Continue Reading SketchUp for 3D Printing: A Tutorial for Beginners

Maxon’s Cinema 4D is one of the CG industry’s most popular 3D modelling, animation and rendering applications. Boasting a designer-friendly interface and powerful toolset, Cinema 4D has become a favourite among digital artists wanting to create show-stopping 3D art. Want to create some 3D artwork of your own? These Cinema 4D tutorials will help you master… Continue Reading 17 Cinema 4D Tutorials To Up Your 3D skills

Modeling characters is very interesting and sometimes may be hard. Many 3D artists admitted that modeling eye is one of the hardest parts of their work. However, eyes make human models very realistic if they look realistic and vice versa. Arrimus 3D prepared a short but very useful tutorial for modeling, texturing, and rendering an Eyeball: And the second part:… Continue Reading Modeling, Texturing, and Rendering an Eyeball

Add some Hollywood flair to your projects. Here you’ll learn the basics of masking and chroma keying in Blender – just the thing for mixing real world footage with CG via a bit of green screen action. If you are looking for 3D models – we have them! Why green screen? Out of all the… Continue Reading Greenscreen masking for VFX

Get to grips with the complete workflow for setting up lighting for an outdoor scene. Learn how to bake light for a blazing fast render. After watching this Blender tutorial you’ll learn how to: • Set up the outdoor lighting step by step • Create a texture atlas • Bake light into textures • Use depth of field Find inspiration for your future works… Continue Reading Lighting and Baking Workflow: Blender Tutorial

Low Poly was a technique originally used for making 3D models and scenes for video games, due to its render speed, which was achieved thanks to low polygonal resolution. Low poly scenes are very easy to create compared with architectural visualization, photorealistic renders or any animation techniques. You don’t need a lot of experience modeling or… Continue Reading Top Low Poly Modeling Tutorials

Blender expert Andrew Price, aka Blender Guru, reveals the secrets of realistic texturing in Blender in this detailed video tutorial. In this tutorial, Price shows you how to take a texture and creating some variations of it, using Photoshop, then putting them into Blender. Price has a whole host of excellent Blender video tutorials on his… Continue Reading The basics of realistic texturing

Not all surfaces have the same reflective characteristics, and if you want your renders to look realistic then you’ll need to ensure that they reflect light properly. In this tutorial from 3D World, Pietro Chiovaro talks through how best to create realistic reflections in Blender. Looking at the render above, you’ll notice that not all… Continue Reading How to create realistic reflections