tutorials

In This Video You Will Discover:

• Use particle strands to make convincing fur
• Using textures to make colorful colors throughout the fur
• Create nice lighting and a background with Pro-Lighting Studio

In This Video You Will Discover:

• 5 vital questions to ask before lighting anything
• Some simple lighting rules to vastly improve your render
• The reasons why certain lights look better (or worse) than others

In This Video You Will Discover:

• Create a stylized, scifi earth render
• Use maps and masks to make better materials
• Create sunflares and color grading in the compositor

In This Video You Will Discover:

• Make tire tracks and footprints in snow
• Paint realistic displacements using Photoshop or Gimp
• Create a realistic snow shader for Cycles

In This Video You Will Discover:

• Effectively use ID masks
• Cast shadows onto a transparent plane
• Composite your render onto a photo

In This Video You Will Discover:

• Make any material look wet
• Create puddles procedurally (no painting or uv unwrapping)
• Understand why wet materials look like they do

In This Video You Will Discover:

• Speed up your interior renders
• Create and use portal lamps
• How Cycles works and why portals help

In This Video You Will Discover:

• Recover auto-saves
• Open old increments
• Reopen last session

In This Video You Will Discover:

• Why sun lamps suck for outdoor lighting
• Some of the problems with HDRs
• An introduction to the new Pro-Lighting: Skies addon

In This Video You Will Discover:

• Use the normals to isolate the upward-facing parts
• Show more dust on the edges using Fresnel
• Use an image texture to add more realism

In This Video You Will Discover:

• Break objects with the fracture addon

In This Video You Will Discover:

• Create a realistic grunge dirt map for any model
• How to bake Ambient Occlusion in Cycles
• Basics of masks in the node editor