By Nathan VegdahlHumane Rigging is a new training DVD in the Blender Open Movie Workshop series.With approximately 6 hours of information-packed video, Nathan\'s friendly and humorous style of teaching will provide viewers with a solid education in designing and building user-friendly rigs in Blender 2.6. The viewer will come away not with mere step-by-step knowledge of how to build specific rigs, but rather will gain a solid conceptual background in Blender rigging tools and how to exploit them to build and design their own rigs. Emphasis is placed on designing rigs that are friendly for animators.Rig deformations are touched on enough to get by, but are not covered deeply. They will be covered in-depth in future training material. The focus of this DVD is rig controls.

Cinema 4D pal, Robert Leger put up a great set of videos where he breaks down his reel intro. I thought it was in interesting look behind the scenes of a great C4D spot from Robert. He also uses the Light Kit Pro Daylight Rig to great effect to give the into a sun kissed look.

We completed the modelling for the hallway scene and in this final tutorial we will be applying materials, compositing and most importantly: lighting. If you’re one of the many people that struggles to get decent lighting, then this tutorial is for you

In this video, Xpresso wizard Chris Schmidt guides you though a gentle intro for Xpresso in Cinema 4D. From set driver/set driven all the way through making your own custom user data and controlling everything in a single Xpresso tag.

 

 

 

 

 

 

This complete project covers the modeling and texturing of the Jedi Starfighter. The model is made from polygons and NURBS and where we need to bring out extra detail we convert to subdivisions. By using the three different geometry types available in Maya you'll learn how to get the best results in the fastest way during the modeling process.

In this tutorial, I will show you how to prepare a cinema 4D scene file for export to After Effects. First, we will model, light and animate a simple flat-screen TV. Then, we will export the scene to After Effects where we will use Trapcode Particular to add snow and use the camera data from C4D to add the screen on the TV and text on the side. You can see the final render below.

This tutorial will cover the creation of custom brushes and seamless tileable textures in Photoshop followed by how to create a uv layout for a polygonal and subdivison surface character model in Maya. After these first few chapters, create realistic skin textures using a combination of hi resolution photographs and airbrushing, again within Photoshop using layers, then back into Maya to fine tune the textures using IPR (Interactive Photorealistic Rendering). All this and more in the second Simply Maya GI Character series of DVDs!

With this highly-requested series of tutorials, we’ll take an in-depth look at the entire production pipeline for creating a transforming robot effect using industry-standard CG software. This process was created by bringing together our top designers, illustrators, modelers, texturers, riggers, animators, lighting and rendering artists and compositors to focus on the specific hurdles and production decisions that goes into each step of creating a transforming robot shot.

This is a unique tutorial series and there's nothing similar to it available online today, as it's a 29 hour long complete project covering modeling, texturing, scene lighting, rigging, animation and compositing of the AH-64 Apache Combat Helicopter. Throughout this project you'll learn lots of useful techniques in all different fields of Maya that you can apply to your own work. Because this model has such a high level of detail and the project will take a long time to follow through with we recommend that you have some previous modeling experience before you start on this tutorial series.

This Tutorial will show you how to create a great looking Underwater Scene in Cinema 4D.

In this tutorial, we will try to recreate this render by Robert Hirsch. He posted it to the Greyscalegorilla Facebook Page a while back and I assumed it was made with Cinema 4D. But, after asking more about it, he let me know it was actually made with 3D Max. So, I thought it would be fun to try and recreate it using Cinema 4D. Follow along as we sweep-nurb and Physical render our way though trying to recreate this stunning image.

This tutorial will show you how to create a Hell Sword inspired by the Chaos Eater from Darksiders using 3ds Max and ZBrush. This tutorial covers all aspects from Blocking to Sculpting and finally Retopo and baking Normal Maps and AO.