Contents for the latest issue of 3D World (169): Future CGI trends and technologies, Framestore ad tips, Disney Paperman techniques, making muscles in Maya and much, much more

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IN THE MAGAZINE

Inside Framestore

▲ What it’s like to work in one of the biggest VFX houses in Europe

Future CGI

▲ Seven key trends that are influencing the 3D world

TRAINING | PRACTICAL TUTORIALS TO BOOST YOUR 3D SKILLS

Sculpt and paint in ZBrush

▲ Super quick character creation creates a clown in just three hours

Retopology basics

▲ Why removing unnecessary polygons is a key part of modelling

Character workflow

▲ How to use Zbrush and V-Ray to make character scenes

Product rendering tips

▲ 15 hints to improve your product scenes in 3ds Max and V-Ray

Textures in 3ds Max

▲ How to use the Viewport Canvas toolset to adjust textures

Animate muscles in Maya

▲ Muscle animation and volume preservation using Maya

Questions & Answers

▲ We tackle your questions on Maya, Vue and modo

On test

Mari 2: The key texturing tool has 2D painting flexibility in a 3D world
KeyShot 4 Pro: Product visualisation has entered a new era of simplicity
Smoke 2013: With a huge range of features, this could be all the software you need
Nvidia Quadro K2000D: Professional speed and performance for amateur money
Scan 3XS-MGW-10: Highly specced mobile workstation with strong graphics performance

Shortcuts: the best new student animations

• Check out Shortcuts online right now

Also in this issue

Projects: This issue’s round-up includes a fruity snack, a new messenger app and a moon walking pony
Inspirational reader artwork: Get inspired by our selection of CG artwork from around the globe
Short Cuts: An animation that is both touching and relevant to today
In Focus: A special tribute to a Jean-Baptiste Monge’s illustration
Freeze Frame: Innovative techniques used on an Oscar-winning short animation

Downloads

This issue’s downloads include videos on sculpting in ZBrush and painting textures in 3ds Max

Fantastic reader artwork

▲ This image really has the wow factor. Reader and artist Leandre Hounnake is inspired by the natural world and enjoys real-world observation

Contents for the latest issue of 3D World (168). The Croods: animation tips from Dreamworks; 42-minute exclusive Maya video course; 29 pages of training; 15-page guide to choosing the best CG course

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IN THE MAGAZINE

Oz the Great and Powerful

▲ James Clarke discovers the magic behind the iconic fantasy world in Oz The Great and Powerful

The Croods

▲ Knuckle-dragging never looked so good, says Renee Dunlop of DreamWorks’ latest film The Croods

Shelley Page’s Eye Candy

▲ Shelley Page of DreamWorks Animation reveals her favourite student short films of all time

TRAINING | PRACTICAL TUTORIALS TO BOOST YOUR 3D SKILLS

Maya blend shapes

>▲ Pat Imrie sheds light on using Maya’s powerful Blend Shape deformers to improve workflow

Camera tracking

▲ Rebecca-Louise Leybourne reveals how to use camera-tracking application MatchMover

Creating concept art

▲ Neil Maccormack on creating a 3D scene for a 2D conceptual design in LightWave and Photoshop

Questions & Answers

>▲ We tackle your questions on Maya, LightWave, V-Ray and ZBrush

On test

Caustic Series2 R2500: Antony Ward tries out a brand-new ray-tracing accelerator board
Carbon Scatter 2 & Carbon Botanica: Steve Jarratt tests the update to E-on’s scatter system, offering control over placement of instances
CopperCube 4.0 Light: Mike Griggs checks out an app for creating or importing 3D scenes and then adding interactive elements
d’artiste Fashion Design: Rob Redman on Ballistic’s latest, highly focused digital compilation
GSG HDRI Studio: Will this latest Cinema 4D plugin help you light your scenes properly? Rob Redman finds out
Dell Precision M6700: The M6700 offers true workstation-grade performance in a portable package, says James Morris

Shortcuts: the best new student animations

▲ Some native African animals find themselves seriously out of shape in the Rollin’ Safari series of shorts. We talk to the student team behind the film

Also in this issue

Projects: The roundup includes superhumans, a luxurious tipple and a fire-breathing dragon or two
Inspirational reader artwork: Get inspired by our selection of CG artwork from around the globe
Short Cuts: Some native African animals find themselves seriously out of shape in the Rollin’ Safari series of shorts.
CG Courses 2013: Choose the best CG school with our guide and PDF, featuring Media Design School, DAVE and Wacom
Freeze Frame: Mark Ramshaw talks to Gradient FX about creating the visual effects on The Man With The Iron Fists

Downloads

This issue’s downloads include videos on Maya blend shapes, VRayDirt, sculpting in ZBrush and replicating objects in LightWave. 73 MINUTES OF VIDEO INCLUDED WITH ALL EDITIONS OF THE ISSUE

Fantastic reader artwork

▲ A brilliant image from this issue’s selection of reader artwork. The artists responsible were Omer Messler and Adi Cohen and the image is called Teacher’s Nightmare

Contents for the latest issue of 3D World (167). 8 hours of
video tips including FIVE HOURS of Digital-Tutors 3ds Max training! Game dev focus; Create hair and cloth with Maya; Enhance Vue scenes with ZBrush sculpts; Model game characters

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IN THE MAGAZINE

Real-time reinvented

▲ 10 years after the launch of war epic PlanetSide, Sony returns to massively multiplayer warfare with a follow-up game powered by a completely new game engine. We find out what difference a decade makes

The state of arch-viz

▲ Do you like your arch-viz photoreal, or do you prefer something more stylised? Architectural visualisation pro Ronen Bekerman brings you a snapshot of the current virtual building scene, as viewed from the windows of his influential blog

TRAINING | PRACTICAL TUTORIALS TO BOOST YOUR 3D SKILLS

Create movement

▲ Add movement to hair and cloth with nCloth in Maya

Texturing in Photoshop

▲ Ten tips for better Photoshop textures

Design great creatures

▲ Get started with exciting creature creation

Lighting and rendering

▲ Studio Fescher Neoilustração shows how it created a pack of rats

Creating game characters

▲ Digital-Tutors’ tips and tricks for making low-poly game characters

Add detail to Vue scenes

▲ Use ZBrush to improve a scene created in Vue

Model and texture assets

▲ 3D artist Francisco Martinez shares his Maya and ZBrush pipeline

Questions & Answers

On test

Clarisse iFX: Is this a new tool for a new 3D workflow?
Electric Image 9.0: A powerful and evolutionary upgrade
G-RAID with Thunderbolt: A speedy drive for high-volume media streaming
Archmodels 122: The latest Evermotion CG model collection
InterPro IPW-DX8: A high-powered new workstation
WSX6 V2: Supreme modelling performance

▲ The makers of Nokomi reveal all about hair and fur in our Shortcuts section

Also in this issue

Projects: Stunning six-minute masterclass in simulation produced by Ridley Scott, Yafka’s aliens for Channel 4, and seamless motion graphics from art and graphics studio Zeitguised
Inspirational reader artwork: Get inspired by our selection of CG artwork from around the globe
Short Cuts: The co-directors of student short Nokomi talk about creating a film full of hair and fur
Debrief: The Halo 4 Spartan Ops trailer series is Axis’ most ambitious project to date. Executive producer and MD Richard Scott reveals why
Freeze Frame: The latest addition to the Ice Age series adds action-movie mayhem to the cartoon mix. Find out how animation studio Blue Sky did it

Downloads

This issue’s downloads include videos on dynamic movement in Maya and making rocks in ZBrush, scene files for layering material in Maxwell, plus screenshots for all the tutorials in the magazine. EIGHT HOURS OF VIDEO INCLUDED WITH ALL EDITIONS OF THE ISSUE

▲ A brilliant image from this issue’s selection of reader artwork. This is by Toni Bratincevic and it is called Level 10

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IN THE MAGAZINE

The future of arch-viz

▲ Jeff Mottle of CGarchitect takes a look at five cutting-edge architectural visualisation technologies that may well shape the future of the field

Cloud Atlas

▲ Renee Dunlop talks to Method Studios Los Angeles, London and Vancouver about their work on German sci-fi epic Cloud Atlas

TRAINING | PRACTICAL TUTORIALS TO BOOST YOUR 3D SKILLS

Graphite modelling tools

▲ Paul Hatton reveals how to use these handy tools to make building models in 3ds Max much easier

Pro SketchUp tips

▲ Ronen Bekerman shares his pro workflow tips for working smarter and faster in SketchUp

Tiling textures

▲ Discover how to create and optimise seamless procedural and image-based textures

Lighting scenes

▲ Chris Kowal looks at lighting different indoor and outdoor situations using 3ds Max and V-Ray

Creating a monster

▲ Create a World-of-Warcraft-inspired fantasy creature character with personality in 3ds Max and ZBrush

Questions & Answers

▲ Our experts respond to queries on rendering a deep-pile rug, streamlining scenes, controlling grass, and creating wear and tear

On test

Nuke 7.0: The latest version of the VFX pipeline software
Blade 2 Powered by Axiom: New mocap software
SolidRocks V-Ray Wizard: A plug-in that simplifies V-Ray workflow
PluralEyes 3.1.0: Red Giant’s AV syncing software
Boston Venom 2305-7T: The most powerful PC we’ve tested
WS RS-D2850: Workstation Specialists’ render node

Also in this issue

Projects: Naive’s cool origami-like spot for GE, Framestore’s repurposed dinosaurs for Kelloggs, and MOTYW’s conceptual arch-viz piece for property firm Kuredhivaru
Inspirational reader artwork: Get inspired by our selection of CG artwork from around the globe
Short Cuts: The French student team behind the atmospheric short Sang d’Encre
Debrief: Crush’s creative director Gary Thomas discusses the highs and lows his team experienced while creating Emily’s Story
Freeze Frame: Sara Bennett, Stephen Elson, and Rudi Holzapfel of Baseblack and The Mill talk to Mark Ramshaw about their work on Dredd

▲ This image is called Mystery and it’s by 3D World reader Tomasz Strzalkowski

Downloads

This issue’s downloads deliver video tips on the following: procedural fur in V-Ray, hair in C4D, textures in Photoshop, and scene files for SketchUp, V-Ray, and C4D, plus screengrabs for all the tutorials in the magazine.

WIN! IN THIS ISSUE OF 3D WORLD

Courtesy of Cook & Becker, we have a prize of two limited-edition art prints – one of ‘Cerberus’ and one of ‘On The Edge’ – worth a total of £980, to give away to a lucky 3D World reader this issue. Click here to enter the prize draw now!

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IN THE MAGAZINE

The Hobbit

▲ Renee Dunlop talks to Weta’s digital wizards about the long-anticipated 48-frames-per-second epic

Studios to watch in 2013

▲ From Cloud Imperium Games Corporation to Mr X, these are the studios doing big things this year

TRAINING | PRACTICAL TUTORIALS TO BOOST YOUR 3D SKILLS

Create a cartoon genie

▲ Antony Ward’s cartoon character illustration workflow for Serena the genie, from sketch to render

The Green Ruby Pumpkin

▲ Miguel Ortega and Tran Ma on how they created their Wizard of Oz-inspired short film in Maya

Simulate fluids in Blender

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

Developing an image

▲ Rafael Vallaperde shares the work behind his illustration of an octopus

Scene creation in ZBrush

▲ Digital-Tutors shows how to give your model a memorable showcase

Create an iClone 4 movie

▲ Alan Marques reveals how to make a 3D movie in just a few hours

Questions & Answers

▲ Our experts respond to queries on material subdivisions, using UV tools and realistic scene lighting

On test

Unity4 Pro: Has version 4 has enhanced its appeal?
Substance Designer 3.1: A new kind of texturing application
TouchAnimator: An innovative 3D animation iPad app
Precision Workstation T7600 Advanced: Dell’s industrial-strength workstation
Evermotion Archmodels 106 / Massive Black Volume 2: Content and book reviews

Also in this issue

Projects: Includes Aardman’s synthetic creatures for FedEx, and Dentsu’s Panasonic spot
Inspirational reader artwork: ArchViz, creature art and more
Short Cuts: The team behind slapstick short Dum Spiro
Debrief: How the immersive SpacePark360 fulldome show was created
Freeze Frame: How to build a 3D facility for hit TV show Merlin

▲ Be inspired by our collection of CG artworks created by 3D World readers from around the globe

Downloads

This issue’s downloads deliver 9 hours of video tips including: videos on character design in Maya, animating a scene in iClone and simulating fluids on Blender, plus videos and files for the Cinema 4D and Silo Q&As.

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We’re so proud of our Newsstand edition that we’re inviting you to try a complete issue for free! Just download the 3D World Magazine app (available via iTunes or the App Store) to your iOS device, then help yourself to the December 2012 issue. You’ll get training for ZBrush, Blender, Maya and After Effects from professional artists including Titouan Olive, Alex Telford, Pascal Blanche and Antony Ward. There’s also insight into CG work produced for Hotel Transylvania, The Borgias and many other brilliant projects.

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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

We’ve partnered with Microsoft to launch an amazing competition to celebrate the launch of the Windows Store. Read on and find out how you can share in some incredible prizes…

It’s the perfect time to start developing for Windows 8 – and we’ve partnered with Microsoft to offer an added incentive: £40,000 worth of incredible prizes to be won in our Windows 8 app competition!

If you’ve never built a Windows app, now the time to start thinking about it seriously. The launch of Windows 8 and the Windows Store means you now have hundreds of millions of potential consumers at your fingertips.

It’s easier than you probably think to build apps for Windows 8 – and you don’t even need to learn a new language. For example, you can build Windows 8 apps with HTML & CSS if you’re a web developer; or Objective-C, Cocoa Touch and XCode, if you’re familiar with building apps for Apple’s devices.

The prizes

Prizes will go to the ten best apps in competition, and there’ll also be some fantastic prizes given out EVERY DAY for four weeks in a series of prize draws. Those prizes will be chosen at random, so everybody has a chance to win. And the earlier you get your entry accepted, the more chances you’ll have to win – so what are you waiting for?

Here’s the full prize breakdown:

Daily prize: 28 x 32GB Windows tablets – one each day, for four whole weeks.

Extra prize draw: A Dell Workstation, a Wacom 24 HD Tablet and a 16GB Lytro Camera will all go to one lucky winner.

Each author of the top ten apps will get a Windows 8 Ultrabook, a Windows tablet and a Nokia Lumia 920 Windows 8 Phone.

The Grand Prize winner will also win a Dell Workstation, a Wacom 24 HD Tablet and a 16GB Lytro Camera on top of that.
How to enter

Anyone in the UK who’s 16 or over can enter – whether you already have a live app in the Windows Store, whether you’re currently building one, or right now is this first time you’ve ever considered it.

All the information, tools and help you’ll need to start building Windows 8 apps are on a special Windows 8 app generator microsite.

Enter the competition today!

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IN THE MAGAZINE

Factory Fifteen: environment insight

▲ Build your own worlds with insight from this dream factory which has established itself as one of the coolest kids on the block

Kon-Tiki VFX secrets

▲ Three effects houses use contrasting techniques to simulate the oceans conquered by Thor Heyerdahl in the Norwegian epic Kon-Tiki. Meet Storm, Gimpville and Fido...

TRAINING | PRACTICAL TUTORIALS TO BOOST YOUR 3D SKILLS

Make epic volcano scenes in Vue

▲ Master environment creation with Conrad Allan’s expert guide to building a volcanic scene using Vue and World Machine

• You can view the first part of this video tutorial right now!

Matte painting techniques: turn day into night!

▲ Maya Emilie Enevoldsen helps you to turn a daytime photo into a night-time matte painting

Light an interior scene with 3ds Max and V-Ray

▲ James Cutler explains how to set up an indoor scene for day or night with 3ds Max and V-Ray

Animator tips: rigging basics

▲ Learning how to rig your models properly is the start of bringing them to life, says Mike Griggs

Artist workshop: create hyper-real renders

▲ Bertrand Benoit describes the tools he used to create his bread still life

Questions & Answers

Animate handwriting, attach a lens flare to a moving object and more

On test

Mari 1.5: Amanda Bone is excited about the new features in this latest version
V-Ray for Softimage: How does the ever-popular renderer fit with Autodesk’s Softimage?
Toolbag: Light and render in real time with Marmoset’s presentation tool
Wacom Cintiq 22HD: Rob Redman tests the new Cintiq
Efficient Cinematic Lighting with Jeremy Vickery: Training from The Gnomon Workshop
The Otherworldly Adventures of Tyler Washburn: Dylan Cole’s first children’s book

Also in this issue

• The Foundry & Luxology: how the recent merger of these popular developers could shape the future of the visual effects industry
• The month’s best new commercial projects
• Inspirational artwork from readers
• Luca Gabriele Rossetti: The master of illusion explains how digital technology has transformed the art of digital matte creation
• Debrief: Kenneth Polonski and Oliver Conrad explain how Kompost created the effects for ‘Mass Construction’

▲ Our wonderful Portfolio section shows the pick of artwork sent to us by 3D World readers

Downloads

This issue’s downloads include 190 minutes of video training: a 138-minute tutorial on making a volcano using Vue and World Machine, a 16-minute complete video from Chaos Group on V-Ray Lighting, and expert advice on how to light the same scene for day and night, plus tutorial scene files and Q&A files and videos

Contents for the latest issue of 3D World. In our CREATURE ISSUE we have tutorials and features for all! Be it sea creatures, critters or pink, dummy-toting beasties from the movies, you’ll find all you need to know here!

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In the magazine

Candy-coloured monsters

Renee Dunlop discovers how the characters in Hotel Transylvania were brought to life using simple silhouettes, vivid colours and strong graphic clarity

Beauty of the Beast

Kulsoom Middleton talks to self-taught creature concept artist Fausto De Martini about his mix of mechanical and sci-fi styles, and constantly coming up with fresh ideas

TRAINING | PRACTICAL TUTORIALS TO BOOST YOUR 3D SKILLS

Texture an aquatic creature with Maya

Add extra detail to your models with this illustration workflow including 106 minutes of narrated video

Make compelling creature models

This issue’s cover artist Ruslan Anisimov reveals how he created the creatures of Dusty Team – a legion of germs that live in your car’s air con system

Sculpt a robot with ZBrush

Our tutorial and 94 minutes of video will see you creating a character and giving it a particular personality and style.

Model and texture a vehicle in Blender

This advanced tutorial on modelling a post-apocalyptic vehicle is fully narrated and includes 21 hours of video!

Watch the first 50 minutes for free:

Sci-fi and fantasy fun!

Create a sci-fi illustration with expert Pascal Blanché using a 3ds Max/ZBrush/illustration workflow

Questions & Answers

Animate handwriting, attach a lens flare to a moving object and more

On test

Cinema 4D Studio R14: A new sculpting workflow is one of this release’s headline features. Also read review of Cinema 4D R13
Element 3D: Add real 3D objects in After Effects and manipulate them in real time
Knoll Light Factory 3.0: This update to the lens flare plug-in adds some handy new features
Creating Plants in Maya/mental ray: Build photoreal plants with Gnomon
Exposé 10: Ballistic’s new collection of artwork
Armari Magnetar M32-AW750R: A workstation with plenty of power

Also in this issue

• Character posing tips – breathe life into static models!
• The month’s best new commercial projects
• Inspirational artwork from readers
• FX studio Spin reveals how Rome wasn’t built in a day in drama The Borgias
• Find out how 3D artist David Lance developed a curious creature based on kinetic sculptures for his short film The Future Forms of Life

Downloads

This issue’s downloads include 26 hours in total of video training: a complete Digital-Tutors ZBrush training video, an extensive Blender video course, plus tutorial scene files and Q&A files and videos