The newest issue of 3D World helps you create a brilliant character rig for animation in Maya, shows you how sculpt a creature in Mudbox and reveals why your renders suck…
Also – the making of Rango, the secrets of dynamic character poses and over $250 in textures on the disc.
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Watch the Maya games rigging tutorial video
Watch the Mudbox troll sculpting tutorial video
Watch the bonus Mudbox sculpting technique videos
Watch the time-of-day lighting tutorial video
Watch the 3ds Max Q&A video
Watch the Cinema 4D Q&A video
Watch the Gimp Q&A video
Watch the Maya Q&A video
Watch the modo Q&A video
Watch the Photoshop Q&A video
Watch the Softimage Q&A video
Watch the Unity Q&A video
ILM makes its first full-length animated feature: a CG take on the spaghetti western
…And what you can do about it. Leading CG artists offer practical fixes for 10 of the most common errors
Chad Robert Morgan of DoubleHelix Games provides a workflow and script to enable you to switch between IK and FK easily, plus the know-how for rigging your own character
Craig Barr presents a workflow for sculpting and painting organic and hard surfaces in his tree troll creature design
Illustrator Brian Haberlin shares the secrets behind the perfect character pose
Create two distinct lighting set-ups to present the scene in two dramatically different ways
Loop an nCloth simulation in Maya, create light maps in Gimp, rig an accordion lamp in Softimage and more
Stay in touch with your peers with this month’s best commercial 3D work
The best new personal artwork from around the world
V-Ray 2.0, DPIT Effex 1.5, messiah:studio 5.0, Unfold3D 7.0, LightUp 2.0, City Kit for Cinema 4D and InterPro’s new IPW-Ci7 workstation
This issue, you’ll find natural surface textures worth over $250, two top-quality models, cool sound samples, a DAZ Studio video tutorial and all the scene files you need for our tutorials
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