Files

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Design Tutorials

Model Animation Ready Male Body (pdf).  A step by step modeling tutorial.  You can also download the final mesh, a bulky male, to use in your projects.  Check out also male and female in normal proportions.  All models are in obj-format.

Presentation Tutorials

Basic Lighting (pdf).  How to do 3-point lighting and some post processing of your render.  Download also Basic Lighting workfiles, including models(obj), scene(lxo) and image-file(psd).  Zip-package 2,5mb.

Production Tutorials

Transfer animation from Messiah to Modo.  Also shows how to later change the already rigged and animated mesh in Messiah.

Using MDDs and displacement at the same time in Lightwave.  Helps doing animation production in Lightwave.  Also includes little advice on exporting displacement from Zbrush.

Tutorials for Gmax

Little quides on creating 3D with Gmax, made originally for our game team but available for anyone interested.

3d_help_gmax.pdf, creating 3D for games with Gmax, misc. info. ver.1.9.

character_mapping_gmax.pdf, character uvs and texturing in Gmax. ver.1.0.