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Entries from April 2008

Silo Tutorial Modeling a Shoe

April 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

This short Silo video tutorial shows the basic process of modeling a womens high heel shoe.
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Tags: Modeling · Silo · Tutorials

Silo Tutorial Modeling a Mail box Shape

April 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

This Silo Tutorial shows the process of turning a cube into a shape that could be used to make a mail box.  It also teaches some basic modeling techniques.
There is no sound but it is very easy to follow.
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Tags: Modeling · Silo · Tutorials

Silo Tutorial Modeling a Button

April 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

This is a short video tutorial on how to model a button, which could be used on a camera or other models.  It may be short but it is very useful if you have ever struggled with adding details to objects.
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Tags: Modeling · Silo · Tutorials

Shader Plus

April 15th, 2008 · No Comments

This is an excellent plugin, I purchased it to upgrade the existing shadow catcher in Carrara 6 Pro.  This allows the use of global illumination with the shadow catcher not currently possible in Carrara 6 Pro.
This picture was rendered using the shader plus plugin with an HDRI image for lighting.  Below is a link to their [...]

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Tags: Carrara · Plugins

Creating a Box of Matches with Hexagon

April 14th, 2008 · No Comments

Learn to model a box of matches using Hexagon
http://www.veoh.com/videos/v51555877NqYSafz

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Tags: Hexagon · Modeling · Tutorials

CG Textures

April 14th, 2008 · No Comments

This site states itself as being
“The Worlds largest free texture site”
They certainly do have alot of textures.
http://www.cgtextures.com/

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Tags: Textures

An Ivy Generator

April 14th, 2008 · No Comments

Grow ivy in your scenes to create some really cool effects. I have not had a chance to play with this yet but I can think of a few projects that would really benefit from this program.
http://graphics.uni-konstanz.de/~luft/ivy_generator/

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Tags: Plugins

Model a Candle in Carrara

April 14th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Detailed video of modeling, texturing, and rendering a candel in Carrara.  This tutorial also includes how to setup SSS.
The tutorial details and video can be found on Polyloop.net you will find the video links about half way down the post.
http://forums.polyloop.net/carrara-tutorials/4558-modeling-candle-creating-realistic-wax-shader-carrara-5-a.html

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Tags: Carrara · Modeling · Rendering

Model and UV map a toon Spray can in Hexagon

April 12th, 2008 · No Comments

This is a nice video tutorial showing how easy it is to model in Hexagon. Would be nice if there was sound but the author does an excellent job. The video quality is also excellent.
There is also a second video showing how to UV map the spray can in Hexagon.
http://forums.polyloop.net/hexagon-tutorials/16382-basic-spray-can-video-tutorial.html

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Tags: Hexagon · Modeling · UV Mapping

Creating a Box of Matches with Silo 3D

April 12th, 2008 · No Comments

This video tutorial shows all the step to creating a box of matches using Silo 3D. This tutorial can easily be used with other programs like Hexagon.
http://forums.polyloop.net/misc-tutorials/16385-matchbox-silo2.html

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Tags: Modeling · Silo