Bobby Parker 8/6/14 Bobby Parker 8/6/14

Procedural Geometry Creation Tool for 3dsMax

The DebrisMaker2 is the completely free procedural geometry creation tool for 3ds Max, that lets you quickly create objects for your 3D scenes.

With the DebrisMaker2 you can create brick, corrugated metal, crystals, gemstones, snowflakes, grass, gravel, leaves, logs, splinters, meteors, obsidian, pigeons, planks, twigs, river stones, sandstone, shrapnel and slate! You can input parameters to customize the style of your debris, to match your desires.

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Bobby Parker 8/5/14 Bobby Parker 8/5/14

A&G DomeLight Pro™ for V-Ray

The A&G DomeLight Pro™ for V-Ray is a powerful V-Ray dome light that acts like a traditional photography light box with full controls over front, back, left, right, top, and bottom. Each side can be mapped with any of the shipping 15 HDRI maps. DomeLight Pro™ can be manipulated to achieve infinite combinations. It also ships with a library of 10 presets to help you get your lighting on point. You also have the ability to save and share your own presets, so you never have to start from scratch again. If that’s not enough, you also get a look development material library and example scenes to help get you started. One light, to rule them all.

Only compatible with 3dsMax 2014 (and above) and V-Ray 2.4 and above. You must have applied ALL Service Packs and/or Product Updates from Autodesk prior to installing the A&G DomeLight Pro™. ALL licenses are node locked. Floating Licenses are not available at this time. For network rendering, run the regular installer (no license necessary) on all network machines. This applies to all expansion packs as well. The A&G DomeLight Pro™ was born from a production environment to make setting up great lighting fast and easy. For V-Ray RT compatibility, please see Chaos groups support page

Introducing the DomeLight Pro for V-Ray! One light. Infinite possibilities. Click HERE to start your download!

Bobby Parker 7/31/14 Bobby Parker 7/31/14

Learn the Basic Elements of Good Design in Under a Minute

Good design isn't the kind of thing that's taught as a core class in most educational systems. However, knowing just a bit about how design works can help you in many jobs. This video gives even a beginner the kickstart they need.

The video above isn't a tutorial so much as a video periodic table of design elements. Each element–like symmetry, negative space, and composition–are demonstrated by themselves in an isolated way. If you don't have any background in design at all, this video may be a good place to start your googling from, if you don't happen to recognize a term or want to know more about it. You can also check out our weekend class on design here.

Bobby Parker 7/30/14 Bobby Parker 7/30/14

Southern California Headquarters Building.

Oakley CEO Colin Baden was the chief architect on Oakley's spectacular Southern California headquarters building. Watch him recount the Beyond Reason experience of designing a landmark.

Bobby Parker 7/29/14 Bobby Parker 7/29/14

What is Autodesk 360?

Autodesk 360 is a project-based collaboration tool that brings the people, data and all of the activities within a project together.
View 2D and 3D files in over 60 file formats, right in your browser. Perform deep search, locating parts and model components embedded in complex designs.
Experience a dramatic improvement in the way you design, visualize, simulate, and share your work-on demand.

Bobby Parker 7/19/14 Bobby Parker 7/19/14

Elmstead & Close - A short film by Andrei Shah

A four season piece representing the phases and beauty of life.

Elmstead & Close is a short CGI film, created by Andrei Shah.

OFFICIAL SELECTION: Watford Live Festival
WINNER: UH Animation Expose - '3D Award 2014'

Written & Directed by: Andrei Shah
Sound Composed by: Arthur Gallon

For further info, including shot breakdowns:
andreishah.co.uk
vimeo.com/83603579

Contact via:
@Andrei_Shah
andrei.shah@gmail.com

Bobby Parker 7/18/14 Bobby Parker 7/18/14

Quick 1-point Perspective Sketch

Bobby Parker 7/17/14 Bobby Parker 7/17/14

Rendering Exteriors in 3ds Max with Adam Crespi

In this course, author Adam Crespi takes you through the full production pipeline for lighting, rendering, and compositing the exterior of a house in 3ds Max. First he'll show you how to create mental ray materials like wood, metal, and glass; customize the Daylight system for realistic daytime lighting; and adjust the lighting for dusk and nighttime shots with photometric lights. Then he'll render the scenes, optimizing and styling the bounced light with Global Illumination and Final Gather. Finally, Adam takes the image into post, adding the final polish required at the end of the pipeline with Nuke and After Effects.

Topics include:

Creating exterior materials
Adding luster to glass and subtle detail to wood and siding
Positioning the sun with the Daylight system
Lighting using HDR imagery
Lighting interior spaces
Fine-tuning the photographic exposure
Rendering and optimizing rendering
Creating an ambient-occlusion rendering pass with custom materials
Setting up additional rendering passes for compositing purposes
Compositing and adding post effects in Nuke and After Effects

Bobby Parker 7/11/14 Bobby Parker 7/11/14

Architectural Rendering Tutorial - Post Production in Photoshop - Inserting People

After many requests, a short tutorial on how to insert people into an architectural visualization scene.Links where to find cutout peopleGobotree.comSkalgubbar.seXoio-air.deImmediateentourage.com/Hope you've enjoyed and feel free to leave any commen… — After many requests, a short tutorial on how to insert people into an architectural visualization scene.

Links where to find cutout people
Gobotree.com
Skalgubbar.se
Xoio-air.de
Immediateentourage.com/

Hope you've enjoyed and feel free to leave any comments and suggestions for the next ones!

Bobby Parker 7/10/14 Bobby Parker 7/10/14

Chiaroscuro

: pictorial representation in terms of light and shade without regard to color
a: the arrangement or treatment of light and dark parts in a pictorial work of artb: the interplay or contrast of dissimilar qualities (as of mood or character)
: a 16th century woodcut technique involving the use of several blocks to print different tones of the same color; also: a print made by this technique
: the interplay of light and shadow on or as if on a surface
: the quality of being veiled or partly in shadow

Contrasting effects of light and shade in a work of art. Leonardo da Vinci brought the technique to its full potential, but it is usually associated with such 17th-century artists as Caravaggio and Rembrandt, who used it to outstanding effect. The chiaroscuro woodcut, produced by printing different tones of a colour from separate woodblocks on a single sheet of paper, was first produced in 16th-century Italy.