Go to Raging Seas of the “The Summoning”

This tutorial illustrates the us of Bryce terrains to achieve the look of raging seas, and crashing surf. You will see how the terrains can be used for the foam and water, and how to place them them to maximize the effects…

With the new Turbo Import for Bryce 5 plug-in developed by DAZ and the use of DAZ|Studio anyone can easily bring DAZ Poser content into Bryce 5.

This 4 step tutorial will lead any beginner through the simple process of taking your DAZ Poser content into Bryce 5.

After you install Turbo Import for Bryce 5 and DAZ|Studio v.0.9.2 or later, you are ready to get started.

Go to Poser to Bryce

In this tutorial we’ll go over creating a mountain valley with a river that runs through it.

Ingredients:

Bryce 3D or higher

Adobe Photoshop (or another image program)

Go to tutorial Recipe for River Valleys

This lesson contains the detail view of glade creation process. The lesson is reckon on 3DStudioMax users and also is based on Grass-O-Matic plugin for 3DSMAX. The lesson consist of six parts, where you Can learn how to create: a ground surface with lichen and naked regions, illumination of bright sun day, grass of different types, flowers and stones.

go to tutorial link or minror

download plugin

Let’s try to reproduce my observations and impressions in Blender to create convincing CG water. It is just a material test with no surroundings and definitely has to be adjusted in a complete scene.

How to make Water in Blender

go to Water tutorial.

ISSUE 24: From out of the deep

From out of the deep

Lighting Strike

• Add Rain & Atmosphere then build a Lightning Bolt
• Use Action Essentials 2 and make Sam explode

go to Lighting Strike

download Project

Lighting Explosion

• Animate a person exploding from a lightning blast
• Composite footage elements from Action Essentials 2
goto Lighting Explosion

Take a digital photo and make it Lomoified

How to make Lomo.

The first thing you want to do is create the classic vignette that the Lomos are well known for and I achieve this by doing a freehand lasso of a circle around the photo. It doesn’t need to be perfect and to prevent hard edges, I set the feather to 80-90px before creating the circle.

goto How To Make Digital Photos Look Like Lomo Photography

Quick tutorial covering some basics of maxscript, generating and controlling objects etc. Might be useful for people wanting to get their feet wet with scripting.

Max Script Basics

Brand new tutorial in a series of Maxscript for beginners – here we introduce basic terminology and generating objects and managing them through basic mat and scripting lingo.

This series is designed to move artists into more technical subjects easily and apply them to appropriate subjects for real production.

go to download link http://www.allanmckay.com/site/index.php/3ds-max/68-maxscript-for-beginners-1

Easily add a rainbow, even a double rainbow, to a photo.

Realistic Rainbpw

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