Video tutorials: master the basics of Softimage ICE
Former Passion Pictures and Aardman director Paul Smith explains the fundamentals.
Saturday, January 29th, 2011
Training
Ten practical tips to help you get more CG done today
VFX supervisor Allan McKay provides his proven productivity tips. (And actually, more than ten of them.)
Thursday, January 13th, 2011
Tutorial: master the basics of linear workflow in Max
New online tutorial by Fred Ruff condenses the essentials into one handy five-minute read.
Friday, December 17th, 2010
Tutorial: Global Illumination Texture Baking & Lightmapping in Maya
How to bake global illumination and ambient occlusion to textures in Maya.
Tuesday, December 14th, 2010
Video tutorial: sharper shadows with HDRI in V-Ray
Discover how to preserve crisp shadows in your V-Ray renders in Matt Guetta's exclusive tutorial.
Thursday, December 9th, 2010
Career advice: Jeff Campbell, SpinVFX
The VFX supervisor and Fight Club veteran gives his advice on breaking into the compositing industry.
Thursday, November 25th, 2010
CG Science for Artists Part 2: The Real-Time Rendering Pipeline
A quick trip through the real-time rendering pipeline.
Monday, November 15th, 2010
Video: free 90-minute Houdini networks tutorial
Includes 66-page PDF, scene files and best user comment ever: "It is pleasure like sex with beautiful wife"
Friday, November 12th, 2010
CG Science for Artists – Part 1: Real-Time and Offline Rendering
In this new series we go through the science that enables the art of CG.
Friday, October 15th, 2010
Get 20 free V-Ray tutorials
Updated architectural visualisation blog features free V-Ray training from artist Matt Guetta.
Monday, October 4th, 2010
Video tutorials: Animation in 3ds Max and Maya
Get started with animation layers in 3ds Max and Maya with two new Mixamo video tutorials.
Monday, September 27th, 2010
Tutorial: Posing and Body Language – Part 3
Double Negative character animator Samy Fecih delivers the third of his series of tutorials on creating strong, appealing poses.
Thursday, September 23rd, 2010
New Blender character animation tutorials
Online mocap service Mixamo releases guides to using motion data in Blender.
Monday, September 20th, 2010