Ok so on to tutorials, this month we continue our Indoor Environment Lighting series and in this installment we take a look at some artificial lighting. This is a whole different ball game to the previous chapters as we now have to consider multiple lights from different directions and sources, but as always we are more than aptly guided through the process by Jamie Cardoso in 3ds max and Mental Ray, Viktor Fretyán in 3ds Max and Vray, Luciano Iurino in Maya and Mental ray and Fredi Voß in Cinema 4D...more

On to the tutorials then, this month’s issue contains the last chapter in the Vray for 3DS Max series. Eric Ennis wraps up the series by telling us a little about Vray Plugins. Out with the old and in with the new, we start a new tutorial series called an Introduction to Rigging, looking first of all at Planning your Rig. This tutorial will be handled in Max and Maya, Richard Maegaki and Danilo Pinheiro will be tackling Maya and Luis San Jan Palleres 3DS Max...more

So on to our tutorials and this month we continue some of the fantastic series that we have been running, starting with the excellent Cédric Seaut. We bring you the next installment of his excellent character modeling tutorial this month looking at creating a handgun...more

As always we are striving to get the best content for you and we deliver again with the second installation in the Cédric Seaut character modeling tutorial. In this month’s issue Cédric shows us how to model the shoe for our character. We hope you enjoy his step by step guide, excuse the pun, I couldn’t help myself!...more

We’ll be starting a fantastic new five part tutorial series on character modeling by the second place winner of the Dominance War IV competition, Cédric Séaut using Max, beginning this month with a look at the concept of the character, focusing on the building of the character from the mesh to the basic sculpting. We also start the New Year as promised with another new tutorial series, environment lighting...more