02 Intermediate

01 NIUI API Setup
02 NIUI Essentials

This making of demonstration and lecture began with the decision to take a personal sketch, develop it in 3D and produce a life-size print. This would require the development of high-resolution detail and textures that could hold up to a 4000x6000 pixel render, effectively making Jester a film-res character. Observe and listen as Alex shares his workflow, thought process and techniques.

This DVD covers the creation of Leon's masterfully crafted clay sculpture. It runs over two hours and will give you a complete inside look at the creation of a high-end creature model. After modeling and detailing are complete, you can watch as the sculptor airbrushes Leon's color textures.

This tutorial demonstrates a simple, yet effective, solution for creating dynamic turntables. Utilizing Mayas two-node camera, motion path animation provides a flexible way to move the camera around the model. Precise and cycling rotations are combined with a moving camera, to allow for various views of the model in a single turntable. We begin the tutorial by creating a three-point lightrig using raytraced shadows and Mental Ray. This tutorial demonstrates how to render a Maya animation from the Command Line.

This tutorial demonstrates a simple, yet effective, solution for creating dynamic turntables. Utilizing Maya's two-node camera, motion path animation provides a flexible way to move the camera around the model. Precise and cycling rotations are combined with a moving camera, to allow for various views of the model in a single turntable. We begin the tutorial by creating a three-point lightrig using raytraced shadows and Mental Ray. This tutorial demonstrates how to render a Maya animation from the Command Line. While it is possible to render from within Maya using Batch Render, there are several advantages to avoiding this approach. More memory is available to the renderer when Maya is closed which is often a necessity. But furthermore, command line rendering simplifies the process of managing rendered frames, network rendering and the batch rendering of multiple scenes. This tutorial also demonstrates how to render the wireframe/topology of the model on top of the shaded turntable animation.

Modelling, Texturing and Rendering Techniques for Cinema 4D.3D artist, Cinema 4D expert and trainer Rob Redman.hosts MILG8: The Complete Robot, step-by-step instruction for modelling, rigging, texturing and rendering a unique robot character using Maxon Cinema 4D.

Rob Redman is back with part 2 of Making It Look Great 9: The Complete Robot, this time focusing on animation, camera and staging techniques, bringing the robot character to life using Maxon Cinema 4D.

Finding the right balance between content and space is a challenge every graphic designer faces. The cookie-cutter templates most layout books offer don’t help, because every project has a different content-to-space ratio.

This making of demonstration and lecture began with the decision to take a personal sketch, develop it in 3D and produce a life-size print. This would require the development of high-resolution detail and textures that could hold up to a 4000x6000 pixel render, effectively making Jester a film-res character. Observe and listen as Alex shares his workflow, thought process and techniques. Volume One covers the character modeling process using Maya and ZBrush, as well as some lighting, composition and texture exploration. Alex begins by creating an organized base mesh in Maya that accurately follows the 2D design. Using UVlayout, he flattens the UVs of the multiple basemesh components. Jester is then imported into ZBrush for sculpting and detailing. We give some thought as to the resolution for each subtool that should be sent to Maya and export them with normal maps generated in Zmapper. Once in Maya, the shader networks are blocked-out so that Jester renders in Maya with the same level of detail that he had in ZBrush. The final step prior to texturing is to then create a Photoshop¬ color study that will guide our further progress on the character.