Textureing Tutorials

Decided to work on learning some textureing so I followed some cool tutorials. This one in particular was good for the Photoshop side of things.

Texturing Workshop with Jamin Shoulet Part 1

I was learning a bit about Unity with the help of some of the tutorials over at 3DBuzz.com Below is a link to what I created using their tutorials. Everything is about the same as in their videos except I didn't have their campsite or mine 3D models so I placed a few of my own in. You might recognize them from some of my earlier posts.

Click here to view my awesome unity world.

Just use the W, A, D, S keys to navigate and space to jump.

Lots of stuff

I was looking for a tutorial to rig something in Maya and stumbled on this site. A lot of nifty video tutorials are posted on this guys site, definitely a link worth saving. (hence the posting of it on this blog, one of the few places where I can't lose it.)

LesterBanks.com

Tutorials

I have been busy over the past week trying to get the hang of the Blender interface. Its been a little difficult being as it is so different then either 3DS Max or Maya. I keep hearing how great the interface is but I have to say at the moment I am still a bit skeptical.

Anyways I don't have much to update with so I figured I would post some links to the tutorials I have been using that seemed like the most help. This goes beyond the blender tutorials and into other programs as well.

Blender:

Character Modeling in Blender
Nystic.com

Cinema 4D:

Cinema 4D Beginner Tutorials

After Effects:

Video Copilot

Flash:

OnEnter Flash

Animation Help:

Animation Lounge

Rocks

The rocks look a lot better, though still not as good as I would like. I think its because I only used one rock and stretched it and rotated it a lot. That really messed with the texture and displacement. I'll have to try playing around a little more with it, but I think I can work with this for now. I took the displacement down a lot of the rocks to make them a bit more 'greyer' like the rest of the scene since nothing else has textures.

I got the rock tutorial from free3dtutorials.com

Rims

Used another tutorial to make some rims for tires. I didn't bother adding lighting or shadows for this pic because the tires are going onto the car, I just made a quick render to see what they look like.

The tutorial is by Mike Nuts and can be found at http://www.3dvalley.com/tutorials/modeling-a-car-rim-in-3d-studio-max

Tires

Decided to try and model a car. I found a decent tutorial for tires. Unfortunately my computer crashed after I downloaded the video so I don't remember where the video is from. Though the video itself says its from 3DNuts.com, so we'll go with that.

Chains

I finally graduated and got home. Unfortunately it has been a bit hectic with moving back and getting a new car. Not to mention all the family get together for the 4th of July. Hopefully it is now all over so I can get back to getting some work done.

I got this idea for a simple piece that could show off some good lighting skills. Its just a pendulum from a clock chained to the ground, sort of a 'stopped time' concept. One of the first things besides sketching out the concepts that I needed to do was find a good tutorial for making chains. I did manage to find one and as I figured there is a very easy way of making them. The tutorial even shows how to rig them for easy posing. I am going to have to play around with the chains a bit to see what is the easiest way to pose them and wrap them around objects, but all and all it seems my scene is going to be simple to model. Its just the lighting that is going to really be difficult.

The tutorial is by Mike Nuts and can be found at 3dvalley.com.

Beginner Tutorials

I tried another of those really beginner tutorials from 3DTotal (The Basic Modeling Techniques in 3ds Max tutorial by Michael Bauer) to see if I could learn anything. I figure I need to know the basics before I can really move on. I was happy to find out that the tutorial pretty much covered things I already knew, though it did show me a few ways of getting certain things done quicker and easier, which it always a plus.