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Helloluxx Mograph Video Tutorial Available for Download at 3D World Magazine

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The new 3D World magazine is on sale from today in the UK. I was offered the exciting opportunity of creating the cover artwork and a twenty second animation for this months issue. Working with Mark Allin, an old friend and my ex-business partner from HYPA. We both developed the concept and design of the piece. I then took the designs and worked up the 3D animation in Cinema4D and completed the composite and grade in After Effects. Thanks to Mark, who also created the sound design for the animation. As part of the project, I wrote a 36 step tutorial that walks you through the processes to create

Posted Under: Rendering, Tutorials

How to Set-Up and Render a Daylight Scene with V-Ray and 3ds Max

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This tutorial shows you the basics of how to set up daylight lighting in V-Ray using VRaySun and a 3ds Max daylight system for precise control of time of day and location.

Posted Under: Compositing, Rendering, Tutorials, VFX

How to Create a Realistic Candle Scene with 3ds Max and FumeFX

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When dealing with FumeFX, and other effects generating tools, it can be said that knowing how to convincingly merge your effects into your 3d scene is just as important as knowing how to create the effects themselves. In this tutorial we will take a look at a little explored area of FumeFX, at least when it comes to tutorials, multi-pass compositing.

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How to Render Diamonds and Other Gems in 3ds Max and Mental Ray

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Posted Under: Rendering, Tutorials, VFX

A Detailed Overview of FumeFX Pyrotechnic Dynamics Engine for 3ds Max

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In this tutorial, we will take an extensive look at FumeFX, the High-end digital pyrotechnics plugin for 3DS Max. We will explore just about every setting and learn exactly what they do, in order to gain a good understanding of how to use this tool in our current pipelines. Both studio and personal usage will be explained.