[Tutorial] Tutorials We Think Are Awesome

[RobertGraham]

Hey, to start this thread, I wanted to post this. Its a .pdf, but its an awesome tutorial and I learned a lot from it.

Caustic Lighting Tutorial (http://fc69.deviantart.com/fs40/f/2009/009/e/4/3D_Studio_Max_Tutorial_3_by_MarioMalagrino.pdf) by ~ (http://mariomalagrino.deviantart.com/)MarioMalagrino (http://mariomalagrino.deviantart.com/)
Pic:
http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee107/dotkito/awesome1.png




I thought this would be pretty cool to make for people who are just learning or need a refreshment on a particular tool.

Things you can throw in this thread:
-Photoshop Tutorials
-Modeling Tutorials
-How to brush your teeth tutorials

And anything that will make anyone better at what they are doing :)
If you submit a tutorial, please give the credit that is due!

[Rob Oplawar]

I found this tutorial extremely useful for improving the backgrounds I use for my side job modeling spacecraft:

http://www.noirextreme.com/earth (licensed under creative commons, author is hidden somewhere on that site...)

[Disaster]

http://www.game-artist.net/forums/spotlight-articles/9178-tutorial-texturing-metal-crate.html
http://eat3d.com/texturing
http://www.game-artist.net/forums/spotlight-articles/42-tutorial-hard-surface-texture-painting.html

[DiagonBlix]

What 3D software did you use?

[Jean-Luc]

http://guerrillacg.org/home/3d-polygon-modeling/subdivision-surfaces-overview
http://guerrillacg.org/home/3d-polygon-modeling/subdivision-topology-artifacts

Good information for Subdivision modelling.

[Rob Oplawar]

That was the first good argument I have heard for working in quads instead of tris, and it was a very good argument. Inapplicable to the type of modeling I have done thus far, which is why nobody has been able to convince me to do it that way before, but now that I've seen that, I know that it's going to be important for me to model that way in the future, and I'm going to try to start doing it now.
I just moved from stage 1 to stage 2 on the subject of topology! Yay!


Excellent tutorials. I have a feeling I'm going to be spending a lot of time watching videos on that site.

[DOMINATOR]

should put the original post of that stickied gun rails thread in this one and sticky this thread instead.

[SnaFuBAR]

the video all noobs should watch

http://www.fpsbanana.com/tuts/332

[bapsi]

like 2% of my resources folder in bookmarks.
written by the gods almighty

Promethus ANJ
http://www.itchstudios.com/psg/art_tut.htm
http://www.itchstudios.com/psg/tuts/process.jpg

Phil Straub
http://features.cgsociety.org/story_custom.php?story_id=3275&page=1

Ron Lemen
http://www.gfxartist.com/features/tutorials/14030
http://www.anticz.com/handtut.htm

Andrew Loomis
http://fineart.sk/index.php?cat=14
http://fineart.sk/index.php?cat=12
http://fineart.sk/index.php?cat=15

and this proves to be really good for practicing painting and learning about lighting, atmosphere and mood. http://framefilter.blogspot.com/

i'm just a 2d artist though.
pffeh.

[Con]

advanced photoshop sharpening
http://www.photoshopsupport.com/tutorials/sharpen-an-image/photo-sharpening.html
some old gun skinning tuts
http://st.burst.cc/tutorials.htm

[Reaper Man]

advanced photoshop sharpening
http://www.photoshopsupport.com/tutorials/sharpen-an-image/photo-sharpening.html

Was about to post something similar. High pass sharpening is awesome. Also, method 2 on that site is something new to me that I'll probably look into now.

[MetKiller Joe]

Any good UV mapping tutorials people know of for Max?

[Disaster]

http://waylon-art.com/uvw_tutorial/uvwtut_01.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjqY8i_-Xe0

[jngrow]

Oh man, why hasn't this thread existed earlier? Anyone know where to go from the Beretta tutorial? I've watched the whole thing, been modeling for a bit.. I've hit sort of a dead spot, haven't really been getting a whole lot better... where do I go from here?

[SnaFuBAR]

www.3dtotal.com

you go there

[RobertGraham]

ITS ALIVE!

My XP to Mac OS X Tiger Tutorial:
http://itails.deviantart.com/art/Windows-XP-to-Mac-117736637

[mR_r0b0to]

that plane modeling tutorial snaf (or was it tweek) always links
modeling a p22 or someshit

[RobertGraham]

that plane modeling tutorial snaf (or was it tweek) always links
modeling a p22 or someshitThat's the point. Its the Baretta Plane Modeling tutorial

[SnaFuBAR]

That's the point. Its the Baretta Plane Modeling tutorial
http://www.modacity.net/forums/showpost.php?p=377306&postcount=8
i already posted it, and it's a beretta 9000

[mR_r0b0to]

oic
p22/beretta 9k, pfft, same shit :downs:

i haven't modeled in a reaaallly long time, trying to get into it again. :D

[PenGuin1362]

Wave has a sticky about rules and resources for the studio section. Sharing tutorials is great but for organizational purposes post any tutorials you find in there, it would make it easier.

[Malloy]

any epic Zbrush or Mudbox tutorials?

[nick3d]

If you use Maya then this place is good, this is where is started it has also got an alright forum on there, but these guys are good. Some tuts you have to pay for but there are a few which you don't need to, I did also have a lot of tutorials bookmarked but i aint no more =[
http://www.3dbuzz.com