Ever wanted to know how the artists create those amazing cars for AAA video game titles? Well here's your chance to find out. In this incredible CGTuts + exclusive tutorial series, you will follow professional CG artist and teacher Laurens Corijn as he creates a high quality, next-gen, normal mapped Hot Rod for realtime use.

Join Jeff Bartels as he covers the most important features of this industry-standard drafting and design application in AutoCAD 2011Essential Training . This course begins with a tour of AutoCAD's interface and the tools used to create basic shapes. It then focuses on the methods used to modify and refine geometry while emphasizing accuracy and good habits to build a solid design foundation. The course covers using layers, line types, and colors to organize a drawing file and explains how to efficiently annotate a design and prepare it for final output. Throughout the title, Jeff shares industry techniques used in production and reinforces concepts using practical examples. Exercise files are included with the course.

The ATMT set is a specialist mechanical modelling and rigging tutorial from 3d-palace, featuring the creation of a completely custom designed mechanical "chicken walker" - a bipedal two legged assault vehicle for deployment of marine troops into an enemy compound. The design was based on a hybrid mixture of a Star Wars design briefly seen in the cartoon 80s version and a Warhammer heavily armoured Dreadnought style design with individual custom elements added in. The finished and rigged piece includes flexible rope pipework, slider controlled opening hatches and gun controls for rotation as well as procedurally created complex material effects, lighting setup, creating a walk cycle and everything else you need in order to complete this advanced mech piece.

Description: In this monstrous 10 hour tutorial series, freelance CG artist Ben Tate will cover the entire process of Modeling, UV mapping, and Texturing a detailed Mac 10 sub-machine gun. This is a must see for any artist that wants to level up their skills in high quality CG weapon creation! In this 10-hour series of screencasts Ben Tate will consider the entire process of modeling, texturing, and sweep detailed 3d model submachine gun MAK-10. A series is recommended for viewing to anyone who wants to improve their skills in creating high quality 3d models.

Description: Video of pure knowledge about how to use the knuckles, hierarchy, and Xpresso to build natural structures that are components for the spirals, curls.

Description: An interesting approach to modeling the human head by increasing the polygon

Cgtuts + is a source of learning on all aspects of computer graphics. We pump out regular tutorials on Maya, 3Ds Max, Cinema 4D, ZBrush, Blender, Mudbox and more. We cater to beginner, intermediate and advanced CG artists.Our tutorials are the best on the web, hands-down - that's why over four million people visit our network of tutorial sites each month.

 

Eat 3D: Low-Res Character Production – Constructing A Character For Next-Gen Games

Description: In these video tutorials how to create from scratch the architectural scene of the Villa with swimming pool, with subsequent adjustment of materials and visualization of internal renderer. By step-by-step sequence, creates a plan for building, external and internal models of its content, materials, and configures a sufficiently high-quality images.

Official video course training tutorials for Modo 301: modeling, texturing, rendering, animation.30 NEW minutes have been added to this course covering some cool new features of modo 302! The 3D GARAGE.com modo 301 Signature Course will introduce you to modo 301,from the new interface,to the new modeling tools, and brand new animation pipeline. 14.5 TOTAL HOURS on TWO DVD-ROMs that play on both Mac and PC.This course is a beginner course, through intermediate lessons. And who's teaching you? Learn from Dan Ablan, the author of the "Official Luxology modo Guide" for both modo 201 and 301! Don't learn modo from just anyone,learn from the author.