Tutorial: Light your scenes in Maxwell Render

| Guides, Technique, Tutorials | 25/02/2013 14:52pm 3dw165qa3

Rob Redman demonstrates how you can light a scene realistically and predictably

Blender tutorial: How to simulate fluids

| Guides, Technique, Tutorials | 21/02/2013 14:52pm 3dw165tutblender

Add splashing liquids to your scene with Phil Nolan’s in-depth guide to creating realistic fluid simulations

Create brilliant motion graphics in Cinema 4D

| Guides, Technique, Tutorials | 18/02/2013 15:53pm 3dw126tutmotion

3D animation meets graphic design as Tim Clapham shows you how to animate and composite a pro-quality logo sequence

Develop an image in modo and ZBrush

| Guides, Making of, Technique, Tutorials | 14/02/2013 15:12pm 3dw165octopus

Rafael Vallaperde shares the production process behind his atmospheric illustration of an octopus

Cinema 4D tutorial: Build cages without plotting each spline individually

| Guides, Technique, Tutorials | 11/02/2013 15:59pm 3dw165qa2

Rob Redman reveals how to use Cinema 4D’s Edge to Spline command and take the pain out of cage-building

The making of The Green Ruby Pumpkin

| Guides, Making of, Technique, Tutorials | 07/02/2013 15:10pm 3dw165tutpumpkin

VFX artists Miguel Ortega and Tran Ma reveal how they created their Wizard of Oz inspired short film in Maya

Get better rendering performance in V-Ray

| Guides, Technique, Tutorials | 04/02/2013 15:46pm 3dw165qa1

James Cutler explains how to improve your renders in V-Ray by taking control of the sampler settings

Build a shockwave deformer in Softimage using ICE

| Guides, Technique, Tutorials | 28/01/2013 15:25pm 3dw164qashockwave

Make an impact with Ola Madsen’s technique for making your geometry pulsate with power

Tutorial: Composite V-Ray render elements to make a Photoshop beauty pass

| Guides, Technique, Tutorials | 21/01/2013 16:23pm 3dw164qa2

James Cutler takes you through all the steps towards making your beauty pass properly beautiful

Expert tips and tricks for motion graphics

| Guides, Technique, Tutorials | 17/01/2013 15:08pm 3dw164tips

Improve your mograph workflow with advice from Michaeljohn Day of animation studio Art & Graft

modo tutorial: model believable scale on a spaceship

| Guides, Technique, Tutorials | 14/01/2013 16:21pm 3dw164qamodo

Mike Griggs is here with some modo tips to prevent your massive battlecruiser from looking like an escape capsule

Tutorial: Create effects with particle simulations

| Guides, Technique, Tutorials | 10/01/2013 16:19pm 3dw164tutfund

Want to learn how to tame a tornado? Mike Griggs explores the fundamentals of particle simulations

Tutorial: Make an object glow in Maya

| Guides, Technique, Tutorials | 07/01/2013 15:15pm 3dw164qa1

Antony Ward takes you beyond the standard options for a glow effect where you can fully control how it looks

Tutorial: Get to grips with LightWave IK

| Guides, Technique, Tutorials | 20/12/2012 14:00pm 3dw163qa

Is your LightWave IK going all flippy and twitchy? Follow Craig Monins’ guide and get it all running smoothly

Tutorial: Model blood cells in a vein

| Guides, Technique, Tutorials | 06/12/2012 14:34pm 3dw162tutfund

Want to explore strange new worlds? Medical computer graphics enables you to do just that, says Mike Griggs