Help and Tutorials

Help and Tutorials

Help and Tutorials Links

• Tony Lanes's Metacreations Tutorials These are intended to make it easier to port objects and figures from one MetaCreations program to another.
  
• A Simple Bowl Making a simple bowl with C4D XL, splines and NURBS.
  
• Tony's Lightwave Tutorials Tutorials for Lightwave 3D, as well as for Painter, Aura, and 3DS MAX. Sections include tutorials, 3D links, and a gallery.
  
• Rhino/Max 3D House Rhino3d working with 3dsMax. Tutorials, Workspaces, ressources and gallery.
  
• RetinaJoy Links to tutorials plus a lightwave boxes tip.
  
• Xtreme 3D - Tutorials Tutorials for 3D Studio Max, Lightwave, Softimage, Bryce 3D, Alias/Wavefront, Rhino 3D, Truspace, Infini-D, and Photoshop.
  
• Making Creatures with FFD Tutorial for making creatures with FFD lattice points.
  
• Harry Mott's Notes The Site presents notes for Digital Artistes on the principles of animation, and a variety of related links.
  
• Perfect Eggs Tutorial on making a basket full of eggs with CorelDream 3D.
  
• Production Graphics Specifically designed for working graphic designers. Tutorials on all major software, including Photoshop, Illustrator, Freehand, CorelDraw, Fireworks, Flash and PaintShop Pro. Tips and production methods.
  
• 3D Artist Tutorials Modeling, animation, special f/x tutorials for the following 3D packages: 3D Studio MAX, Lightwave 3D, Power Animator, RayDream, Softimage 3D.
  
• How Stuff Works Complete tutorial on how 3-D graphics and animations work, with additional links.
  
• NURBS Article about Nonuniform Rational B-Splines - NURBS a summary by Markus Altmann.
  
• Tutorials in 3D Techniques The latest design techniques, step-by-step form the experts. Get the best results with professional techniques and all the latest, cutting edge technologies from 3D modeling, to mapping.
  
• C4D Basic Tutorial An introduction to Cinema4D.
  
• Inspire Joy Computer animation student Scott Tygett's casual tutorials for Inspire 3D, the student's Lightwave 3D, are thumbnailed and include a "tipathon."
  
• Graphic Modeling This paper covers various aspects of graphic modeling including: 2D objects, 3D polygon meshes, ray tracing, and 3D transformation.
  
• 3D GFX Coding Zone A compilation of various 3D graphics tutorials ranging from basic 3D math to complex visualization algorithms.
  
• Fear Tutorial Making a 3D spaceship.
  
• T-Rex A step-by-step tutorial on how to make a good-looking T-Rex in REAL3D.
  
• 3D Animation Workshop 3D graphics and animation news and tutorials, with special focus on Web 3D.
  
• Black Orb This site has great resources for 3D artists, with Maya and 3D Max tutorials, NURBS and Polygons and other useful links, with industry links.
  
• StormVision Tutorials How to make chairs, interfaces or cars and many other fabulous tutorials.
  
• Web3D 3D tutorials for Truespace, Terragen and Rhinoceros. All so a gallery, books, downloads and links.
  
• ArtSavant Basics for 3D rendered illustration presented with sound, animation, and javascript. Step by step Photoshop 3D effects also.
  
• Body Modelling and Animation by David Forsey Information and example of how easy it is to animate hierarichal B-spline surfaces, with downloads.
  
• Presenter 3D Tutorials This tutorial provides you tips for improving your effectiveness in designing 3D objects by showing you how to straighten and curve a spline, how to use guidelines, markers, and how to re-set the Origin Point.
  
• Smoke in C4D Smoke in C4D - Thick, billowy variety
  
• Maya Tutorials Professional level Maya, Softimage, Alias Studio, Sumatra, Renderman tutorials and other resources.
  
• Rethinkfx The source for visual effects and animation tips and tutorials using 3D Studio Max, Softimage and Aftereffects.
  
• Creating Facial Actions Providing some additional detail about how hierarchical splines (hsplines) are used in facial animation.
  
• Advanced 3d Modeling This tutorial is an introduction to 3d modeling principles and software. It includes an explanation of mathematics, viewports, clipping, Polygon Models, NURBS Models, model transformation, texture and bumb mapping and Anti Aliasing.