Innholdsfortegnelse for No. 100 i 3D Artist

“This started as a study of photogrammetry. We started to take 3D model pieces and rearrange them in 3ds Max. For the characters we made a base mesh in 3ds Max, detailed in ZBrush, generated Displacement and Normal maps, then made all textures in Substance Painter”Fabricio Moraes and Guilherme Formenti, Slug Race, 2016 Fabricio Moraes and Guilherme Formenti www.behance.net/RemyTrapp Fabricio and Guilherme met at Seagulls Fly studio, and they’ve worked together ever since Software PhotoScan, 3ds Max, ZBrush, Substance Painter Work in progress…   “Artwork made for Poliigon, partially biased towards my love for wine and grapes. The soul and character of an object lies in its small details, from the little dust particles to the bigger liquid stains. The details were the reason why I created this scene”Guilherme…

ZACHARIAS REINHARDT The Journey, 2016 Software Blender, Photoshop Learn how to • Model complex hard-surface objects • Blockout as a foundation • Add realistic details • Create cables and ropes • Imagine and design sci-fi vehicles • Build up simple environments • Spped up your workflow using plugins • Combine render passes in Photoshop Concept My basic idea was to combine a car (Lada Niva), with a trailer and some robot legs – basically a self-made sci-fi vehicle to travel around the globe. After some concepts showing the vehicle in a larger environment, I decided to focus more on the car itself, because that was what the challenge was all about in the end! In this tutorial we will create a complex robot vehicle scene. We will use Blender as…

ROBERT NATHAN GARLINGTON Vigilant, 2016 Software Blender, After Effects Learn how to • Create an eye-catching composition using both classical and modern techniques • Get creative with various rock assets from The Rock Essentials for Blender • Apply detailed grass to models using vertex groups and The Grass Essentials • Quickly light your scene with HDRIs using the Pro Lighting Skies add-on • Create trees with both free and commercial add-ons • Sculpt details using the multiresolution modifier • Create simple but effective environmental cloud effects Concept Standing atop a ruined tower staircase, a spectral guard from ages gone by stands eternally in place. Vigilant is a loving fan art piece based upon the popular Bethesda videogame, Skyrim. Over the next 17 steps we’ll be going over the design, workflows…

As 3D artists we all seek to create challenging scenes and visuals to get us to the next level, and the key to having stunning visual is details. In terms of creatures – specifically the bearded dragon – details make all the difference, so we must pay attention to its scales with all their variations. Sculpting scales straight on the main body won’t give us the result we’re seeking, so we’ll deal with each scale as a unit and scatter them over the body in different SubTools, with variations to fit the model. In this tutorial, you’ll see how I built the model using hand sculpting and NanoMesh. 01 Build the base mesh and initial sculpt First we’re going to create the lizard’s body with the right proportions and positioning…

Frost Max 2.0 brings better integration with V-Ray and double the speed in meshing particles. The new V-Ray Instancing mode makes use of memory allocation to render hi-res meshes using a small amount of memory. The Region Of Interest option is a new option for enabling easier defined custom bounding box regions applied to viewport meshing. This will create faster previews when the settings of complex particle data sets are adjusted and can remove unwanted areas in render-time meshing. A new Frost menu bar in 3ds Max’s main menu will also enable better and quicker access to Frost objects, auto adding new sources to a Frost object and plenty of other features. For more information, be sure to visit the Thinkbox website at www.thinkboxsoftware.com/frost.…

For our milestone issue 100, we thought about the best ways to celebrate with you, the reader. We didn’t think it was enough to just look back at the magazine’s past – we thought we had to do something a bit different, a bit special. We wanted to both give back to our readers and to celebrate with all of the artists that we admire and have enjoyed working with for the past 100 issues. Getting 100 tips, whether from specific disciplines or of essential career advice, was a no-brainer, so we got to work collating top techniques from industry legends like Ben Mauro and Gavriil Klimov. But again that didn’t seem enough, so then we went back to the drawing board and gathered 100 of these professionals to give…

Director James Cameron seems to push forward visual effects with every film he works on. The Abyss, Terminator 2 and Titanic were huge game-changers in CG, while also combining a mix of practical, miniature and digital effects techniques. With Avatar in 2009, Cameron would take a leap even further into VFX innovations by applying a virtual production approach to shooting actors and then generating them completely synthetically, while retaining the feel of a live-action film. Weta Digital led the VFX effort on the show and had to up its game when it started working with the director. “Jim does a lot of prep in all phases of the film,“ says Weta Digital senior visual effects supervisor Joe Letteri. “He knows exactly what he wants and he works very hard to…

Zacharias Reinhardt Zacharias currently works as a freelance 3D artist and Blender trainer after having worked at AgenZas Brothers with his brother for the last four years. In his free time he loves creating funny 3D creatures and sci-fi related vehicles and environments. He also likes to share his knowledge with the community. Cute But Dangerous, 2016 Blender, Photoshop, Instant Meshes, PixPlant This was a personal project that created for the Facebook group, Weekly CG Challenge (www.facebook.com/groups/weeklycgc) with the topic ‘Cute but Dangerous’. Memories of the Past, 2015 Blender, Photoshop, Skanect, iPi Mocap Studio This is an example scene for a video workshop called ‘Movie Scene Creation in Blender 3D’. It was created together with his brother Vincent Reinhardt. Monster in the Closet, 2015…

Robert Nathan Garlington For over 15 years Rob has worked the gamut of CG production as a director, producer, writer and artist in the industry. Art happens to be one of his greatest passions, and he especially enjoys working on creative collaborations with other artists of a similar creative mind. Bag End, 2015 Blender, After Effects This is a fan-made adaptation of Bag End from The Lord Of The Rings. Its vibrant and warm colours are designed to make the viewer feel all warm and fuzzy inside! British Columbia, 2014 Blender, After Effects Inspired by the beautiful landscapes of British Columbia, this image seeks to emulate the misty and mysterious feeling of the mountains in this region. The Caribbean, 2014 Blender, After Effects While…

We live in a time of information and learning, and with thousands of incredible artists around it can sometimes feel like an impossible task to get noticed and to keep your head above of the water in such a vast and talented industry. What we must remember, however, is that the most important thing that we can do is to keep on learning; to keep the wheels of our intellect rolling. As digital artists our toolbox is filled with software, plugins, templates, brushes, knowledge and many other intangible goods that make us who we are professionally, and it’s our duty to ensure that this set of tools and skills grows every single day. The model that concerns us today is a robot made in ZBrush, which was originally rendered in…

It’s been over six months since Blender’s last release, but version 2.78 is now finally here. With optimisations, an improved viewport and support for rendering spherical stereo images for VR, Cycles has received some great updates. There are also improved subdivision and micro displacement, whereas smoke volume, fluid simulation and more shading nodes than before are now supported. The Grease Pencil has seen an overhaul and is now a production-ready 2D animation tool that provides drawings that can be mixed with 3D objects. Beginners to rigging will enjoy the new Bendy Bones feature, which helps make advanced B-Bones simpler to use with shapes controlled with properties. An Eyedropper tool adds easier setup and keyframe control, too. For modellers, there is now a new Freehand Curve drawing tool, a Decimate Edit-Mode…

The final instalment of MODO 10 has been released. Among some of the updated features before the release of version 11, MODO gets reworked MeshFusion to make it easier to cut, combine and intersect geometry. MeshFusion will also now have cleaner outputs and better viewport visibility. New features to 10.2 include automatic retopology for creating quad meshes at any density, and deformer caching. Procedural modelling has been given enhancements such as the ability to package assembly aliases and additions or updates to slicing, drilling, cloning and duplicating tools. Rendering has also received improvements to the Preview Renderer and the Advanced Viewport.…

JENUE jenue.net It wouldn’t have been issue 100 without a big gold number on the cover, so we enlisted Jenue’s help to get it done. It’s also a fitting opener for our extra-special feature over on p24. 3DArtist username n/a ZACHARIAS REINHARDT zreinhardt.artstation. com A Blender Foundation Certified Trainer, Zacharias spends his time teaching people around the world. This month he’s on hand to show off his vehicle design skills, with a twist… 3DArtist username zreinhardt ALDO VICENTE aldovicentecg.com We’ve worked with Aldo an awful lot over the years, so it’s great to have him in this special issue. Over on p58 he’s incorporated super-fast GPU renderer Redshift into his Maya pipeline. 3DArtist username AldoVicenteCG ROBERT NATHAN GARLINGTON garlingtonartgallery.com If you want…

“Anything you did was new – the barriers were pretty low, so you didn’t need to do that much”Roy Hall, Wavefront Technologies Audiences have perhaps always marvelled at the skill and impact of special effects in films, whether they be miniatures or matte paintings, explosions or man-in-suit monsters. Yet the advent of computer-generated imagery in live-action and animated features – which has only really been seen in the past few decades – has taken us into new worlds with more believable characters and creatures than ever before. Over the next few pages, 3D Artist has gathered together several industry heavyweights to take a look back on the biggest developments in CG and VFX so far. Many of these contributors were there right at the beginning of the dawn of the…

“Every day at SideFX we’re inspired by the talented artists from around the world creating incredible artwork with Houdini”Christopher Hebert, marketing director at SideFX What do you think of when you imagine machines? Do you think of gigantic mechs protecting the Earth from destruction, or do you think of sleek micro-sized gadgets? We’ve teamed up with SideFX to launch a new contest titled ‘Marvelous Machines’, which will have plenty of great prizes available. To be in with a chance of winning, the contest is asking for artists to show “the machines of your mind“ and make them into awe-inspiring entries using Houdini and Mantra. “Every day at SideFX we’re inspired by the talented artists from around the world creating incredible artwork with Houdini,“ explains Christopher Hebert, marketing director at SideFX,…

“While this didn’t help with the job interview phase, I do have a tattoo of the 3ds Max logo, so you can see my dedication”Eddie Perlberg, Autodesk 3ds Max product manager With a background in architecture, it would have been easy for Eddie Perlberg to have embarked on a different career path than being a product manager for one of the most widely used 3D tools in the world for ten years – and 3ds Max could have been a different product altogether. It was not to be, though, as Perlberg instinctively knew that being an architect wasn’t really what he was most interested in. “As my classmates were all excited about architecture and all the different styles, it was really the technology that I was most excited about,“ he…