Free LightWave 3D Tutorial: A Beginner’s Guide to Modelling

| Guides, Tutorials | 02/05/2012 11:41am uss_enterprise

Follow this fantastic free tutorial to realise your very own model of Star Trek’s USS Enterprise and find out how 3D hobbyist Gerard Duffy spent a year creating this labour of love

Video tutorial: Create epic landscapes with Vue and World Machine

| Guides, Tutorials | 01/05/2012 10:14am tdw156-t_vue

Conrad Allan combines the talents of two terrain-building packages to create a large-scale scene, in a series of five videos…

Step-by-step tutorial: Creature sculpting

| Guides, Tutorials | 30/03/2012 15:38pm TDW129.t_medusa

Follow this free ZBrush workshop by Ryan Kingslien on sculpting and painting a bust of the mythical monster Medusa

Video tutorial: Rig your own Transformer in LightWave

| Guides, Tutorials | 16/03/2012 16:50pm TDW119.t_trans.opener

Transformers week draws to a close with this video training from Dan DeEntremont. Master key animation skills in this Transformer-style tutorial as you rig a robot to animate its transformation from train to humanoid

3D job application basics

| Features, Guides | 08/03/2012 15:32pm 3d_job_apps

If you’ve decided working in 3D is for you then check out this article. Our 10-point guide will help you to craft job-landing showreels

How to get hired in 3D: showreels and portfolios that work

| Features, Guides | 07/03/2012 09:51am showreel_27022012

If you want to work in the 3D industry, you’ll need to create an arresting demoreel. Here we show you the showreels and portfolios that led to graduates landing their first jobs in 3D

Getting started in 3D

| Features, Guides | 06/03/2012 18:42pm Work by Andrew Mitchell, studying for an MFA in Visual Effects at SCAD

So you’ve set your sights on a career in 3D, but with the vast variety of roles involved in the industry how will you know what direction to take? Check out our handy guide to help you get started in 3D

Create a robot and rig tank tracks in Maya

| Guides, Tutorials | 22/02/2012 17:08pm tdw154-t_maya

Antony Ward creates a cute robot to demonstrate the principles of rigging a rotating track, in a series of nine videos…

Build and use a phoneme library in Blender

| Guides, Tutorials | 22/02/2012 17:08pm tdw154-t_blender

Alex Telford explains how to create a library of mouth shapes and other expression components, in a series of 14 videos…

Add detail using projection mapping in modo

| Guides, Tutorials | 22/02/2012 17:08pm tdw154-t_modo

Mike Griggs shows how to project textures onto objects to speed up your modelling workflow, in a series of five videos…

Create a photo-real render with Cycles in Blender

| Guides, Tutorials | 01/02/2012 14:25pm tdw153-blender

Alex Telford takes you from concept to final image with Blender’s new render engine, in a series of six videos…

Create effects using Force Fields in Maya

| Guides, Tutorials | 01/02/2012 14:24pm tdw153-t_maya

Eric Keller demonstrates how to use a texture map to control nParticle effects, in a series of four videos…

Create an energetic fire and water scene in Blender

| Guides, Tutorials | 07/01/2012 13:04pm

Andrew Price shows you how to simulate real-world flame and fluid effects

Create a landscape from map data in 3ds Max

| Guides, Tutorials | 07/01/2012 13:03pm

Simon Moir shows you how to enhance arch-viz exterior renders with landscaping based on real-world locations

Grow an object over time in Cinema 4D

| Guides, Tutorials | 07/01/2012 13:02pm

Rob Redman shows you how to animate the growth of a plant or other object along a defined path