There are many asset stores popping up online like 3D Ocean, Turbosquid, CGPeopleNetwork (was 3D02.com) that makes life and timelines easier by purchasing assets. I won’t go into licensing issues but rather this article is to give you a real world case example of dealing with a purchased asset and …
Background In the older days of rendering the mention of specular highlights would bring to mind shiny little round white dots on the typical render sphere. The importance in this classic specular is that it meant to represent reflected light, and the reflection attribute would be environment reflection and other …
Need Cinema 4D shadow catching or floor reflections?
Linear workflow (LWF) is a concept that I try to explain to others when dealing with realistic lighting and rendering. LWF has …
I had a PC decide to not boot, and while it wasn’t a major component to the farm it was used by …
For those of you who don’t own Mudbox or 3DCoat but would like to, at the very least preview your model in …
Arstechnica has a great article that concisely breaks down doing video post-production “at home”. The article covers aspects of codecs, compressions (4:4:4, …
I’m a big fan of the class of ‘unbiased’ render engines, the look of them is just something cool. The caveat as …
There seems to be a lot of dodgy operations out there and as a freelancer, what are you to do to protect …
Big kudos to 3D World magazine for releasing the Tim Clapham mograph video. Asset files and tutorial are available. Download link. 3D …