Sci-fi CG art tutorials, video training, Blender VFX and more in the latest 3D World magazine

Contents for the latest issue of 3D World. Create breath-taking sci-fi scenes; focus on game development; motion tips; sculpting masterclass; behind the scenes on Tears of Steel. View over 56 minutes of sample videos here!

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IN THE MAGAZINE

ILM joins Disney

▲ Disney’s main reason for wanting to buy Lucasfilm may be Star Wars, but the world’s best-known VFX house comes with it. We explore the impact of the deal on ILM

Looper

▲ Renee Dunlop finds that sometimes creating a movie is a blast, and sometimes the task is creating the blast, as she talks to ScanlineVFX about its work on the film Looper

TRAINING | PRACTICAL TUTORIALS TO BOOST YOUR 3D SKILLS

Stunning sci-fi scenes

▲ How Dylan Cole blended 2D and 3D to create the otherwordly images for his children's storybook

Bonus tutorial: Dylan Cole shows you how to create another futuristic scene from his book

Make a real-time demo

▲ Wes McDermott offers a behind-the-scenes look at how to turn a short film into a real-time demo

• Watch a 3-minute excerpt from this tutorial here

Motion graphics tips

▲ Michaeljohn Day of Art & Graft has advice for readers on how to improve your motion graphics workflow

Game environments

▲ Alex Telford shows you how to build and texture a cityscape for a racing videogame in Blender

• Watch a 42-minute excerpt from this tutorial here

Particle simulations

▲ Discover techniques for creating fuzzy phenomena with particle simulations. Mike Griggs explains

Character sculpting

▲ Scott Spencer explains how to create an image using ZBrush's new topology and Mesh insert brushes

• Watch a 10-minute excerpt from this tutorial here

Questions & Answers

▲ Composite V-Ray render elements using Photoshop; make an object glow in Maya; create believable scale on spaceships; and more

On test

iClone5.3 Pro: The real-time 3D movie-making app from Reallusion receives an update
HDR Light Studio: This accessible HDRI creator will be a handy addition to your toolset
Trapcode Mir: Red Giant’s 3D shape generator has huge potential for mograph artists
Nvidia Quadro K5000: The new Kepler-generation card
CrazyTalk 7: An easy-to-use facial animation tool
Environment Sculpting: In-depth CG training by Gnomon
Cinema 4D Everything Volume 2: Expert insight from trainer cmiVFX

Also in this issue

• Tears of Steel: The latest movie from the Blender Institute blends CG special effects with live action. We explore its making and reveal how it affects the VFX toolset in Blender
• The month’s best new commercial projects
• Short Cuts: A group of students from Ringling College of Art and Design have made a Western with a difference
• Inspirational reader artwork
• Debrief: Lon Molnar and Geoff Scott reveal how Intelligent Creatures created a battle between viruses and human cells for a full-CG documentary
• Freeze Frame: Double Negative discusses how it built two brave new worlds for an ambitious remake of Total Recall

Downloads

This issue’s downloads deliver 15 hours of video tips including: 11 hours of video in our Blender game tutorial; two hours of video plus scene files from our ZBrush tutorial; and a game based of Wes Ball’s Ruin movies including nine videos

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Tags: Blender, game development, hot, looper, motion graphics, sci-fi, sculpting, Tears of Steel, ZBrush