3D World - The Magazine For 3D Artists

Specs appeal

Put away those blue-and-red glasses. Stereoscopic films may be back in vogue, but the new breed of projection systems have little to do with the old anaglyph technology. We probe Hollywood’s claim that true 3D filmmaking is here to stay. The term ‘3D’ may...

Mental Roy – issue 84

Resident columnist Mental Roy has noticed something odd: whenever Hollywood makes animations about animals, they come in two by two. Which can mean only one thing – we’re in for a deluge of mediocre movies of truly biblical proportions. When I was even...

8 great free texture sites

There are gazillions of free textures out there but they’re scattered all about the place. Check out the following sites to try out high end textures, dabble with a variety of environmental images, or to genuinely start giving colour and substance to the 3D...

Download issue 119's Short Cuts animation

Made by a group of Supinfocom students, Machu Picchu Post takes a simple concept and flies it into the unknown. Find it here

Made by students at leading French animation school Supinfocom, the charming short Machu Picchu Post sees an airmail pilot in the mountains of Peru losing some letters over a young boy‘s home.

When the boy takes one of these letters and builds a paper aeroplane with it, everything he does becomes mirrored by the real plane… and the pilot finds himself on a psychedelic rollercoaster ride.

You can read more about the making of ‘Machu Picchu Post‘ in issue 119 of 3D World.

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Thursday June 25, 2009

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Tutorial files for 3D World 119

Download the videos to accompany issue 119's tutorials

In issue 119 of 3D World, architectural visualisation studio Redvertex offers a two-part masterclass in rendering an interior scene with V-Ray and Photoshop; Dan DeEntremont shows how to rig and animate a robotic scene inspired by the Transformers movies; and our expert artists tackle a selection of your questions.

The videos and scene files here complement the tutorials in 3D World 119, providing extra detail and insight. To order your copy, visit My Favourite Magazines.

Render an arch-viz image
Render passes in V-Ray with Redvertex

Scene files and screen-capture videos are provided here.

Download V-Ray tutorial files (244.5MB)

Download Stage 1 video (15.3MB)

Download Stage 2 video (6MB)

Download Stage 3 video (11.2MB)

Download Stage 4 video (10.9MB)

Composite an arch-viz image
Post-production in Photoshop with Redvertex

Scene files and screen-capture videos are provided here, along with a production-quality layered version of the final Photoshop image.

Download Photoshop tutorial files (81.4MB)

Download final Photoshop image (542.9MB)
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Download Stage 1 video (5.7MB)

Download Stage 2 video (33.9MB)

Download Stage 3 video (57.5MB)

Download Stage 4 video (69.5MB)

Rig your own battle robot
Animation in the style of Transformers with Dan DeEntremont

The videos provided here accompany the scene files included on the disc for issue 119.