Create the Matte Metal

In this tutorial I will describe my workflow for a pretty typical metal plate wall. I will use 3ds Max and Photoshop to create thi…

Archmodels vol. 103 are out

Archmodels vol. 103 includes 80 low poly models of night skyscrapers with textures, shaders and materials. It is ready to use, jus…

r|Shaders 1.0 Released

r|shaders is a collection of procedural shaders for 3ds max. Now available in CGArena store on special pricing for limited Time.

Vue 10 Announced

This new release introduces a number of major enhancements such as spline and road tools, a new rock technology, streamlined terra…

Real Steel

Real Steel

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Two great pieces on Real Steel have just been published at fxguide – a case study on live action / CG integration looking at Digital Domain’s work on the film and the virtual production involved. Plus an in-depth fxpodcast, as Mike Seymour chats with DD vfx supe Erik Nash.

Making of Concept Car

Artist placed this new car in a new environment to learn how to place the lights, exposure and so on and then created this concept…

Houdini Digital Asset Webinar

Learn how you can use Houdini’s Digital Asset technology, to build custom tools, share assets and re-use old techniques using an a…

Game of Thrones: Kirk Shintani

Graduated from UCLA with a degree in Psychology, then realized that it really wasn’t what I wanted to do the rest of my life.

Review: Samsung S23A300B LED Monitor

LED\’s provide improved brightness and contrast levels, with deeper blacks. LED are also more environmentally friendly due to ther…

Motion Blur Lab Pro Released

MBL PRO is a Photoshop compliant plugin capable of producing high-quality, multi-directional and variable-strength motion blur eff…