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HDRI Skydomes

Christian Bauer recently updated this handy tutorial about creating HDR skydomes from a series of fisheye images using hdrshop. Create your own HDR skydomes using standard camera lenses & free software like hdrshop ...

The Garden

Cristσbal Vila is a 3D artist living & working in Spain. Below he gives us an insight into the making of The Garden - a personal project inspired by his visit to Japan ...

Bathroom Scene

Joshua Staub has written us this exclusive 'making of' for his excellent 'Bathroom Scene'... Joshua is the author of the wonderful 3D animated short The Mantis Parable. He's currently Art and Visual Design Director for Cyan - well known for their games Myst & Riven.

Female Anatomy Study

The talented Czechoslovakian 3D Artist Marek Denko provides us with an insight into his creative process with this overview of his Female Anatomy Study. Recommended for anyone who has ever tried to model " perfect " breasts :)

World of Reflections

Philipp Zaufel presents us this theoretical overview of the world of reflections & how to reconstruct real world phenomens through computer graphics. You'll find some examples of what we see in the natural world and how to replicate this with current CGI techniques.

World of Reflections II

Here's the second part of Philipp Zaufel's theoretical overview of the 'World of Reflections' where he describes in layman's terms about BRDF (Bidirectional Reflection Distribution Function) - a mathematical model that we make use of all the time in Computer Graphics which describes the reflective behaviour of materials...

Fake Shadows Tutorial

Have you ever had a scene filled with high-poly models that produce slow rendering times ? Here's a tutorial about creating a fake shadow effect using 3ds MAX in order to speed up rendering times without sacrificing quality !

HDRI Reflections

The aim of this tutorial is to show you how to get great looking reflections using Splutterfish's free I/O plugin for 3ds MAX. You'll also find a general description of high dynamic range images. You can Download the model for FREE !