In this section you will find all sorts of resources you can use to create awesome 3D Scenes. General Maya Bonus Tools for Maya 202…

Tutorials Pay Sites Pluralsight - Formerly digital-tutors, one of the first video Maya Tutorial Sites The Gnomon Workshop CGTalk Maya…

Step 1: Install Visual Studio Code VS Code Step 2: Install VSCode Plugins Python Extensions: ms-python.python MayaPy: fxtd-odyssey.mayapy…

Brent Le Blanc makes great Tutorials on Look development. I recently watched his great introduction to Arnold Lights. Takes an indepth look…

The Bonus Tools are a little odd, they are created by Autodesk but are not supported by them. So the tools are not directly included with…

Inspired by the article in 3D World Issue 111

Corvette from the 1980s

While creating the lights for the generator room I ran into a very odd issue. The light source of my mesh Light suddenly started to render…

Free Interpretation of the Generator Room of GotG Vol.2

Magnets that amaze!

Can you hear it?

Today I did not have a lot of time, so I only added some doors, and added some basic lighting. The Light source is the Arnold > Physical Sky…

Now I started to block out the layout of the apartment and with using the Outliner and File References I started to model the first piece of…

After a very long time I finally found some time to start experimenting with Maya again. Hopefully over the next couple of days I will find…

To boldly go...

Arvid Schneider is an awesome guy that creates extremely high quality tutorials. Check out his website and  Youtube Channel. He made a great…

Let there be light!

Wake Up!

Four Steps to Amazing Things!

Autodesk officially only supports Fedora/RedHat. This is probably due to legacy reasons, since larger Corporations were using RedHat. There…

A short look at path tracing from Disney.

This technique is a very quick and dirty approach to creating a pile of stuff. The downside using this technique is due to the fact that…

If you want to show off your awesome modeling skills, there is no better way then to show off the models wireframe. You could do a quick…

The IES (Illumination Engineering Society) standard format file stores information about the distribution of light from a real light source…

The ultimate solution for testing shaders, it has hard edges, it has curvature, it is the one and the only teapot you will need for all your…

Get a grip on your life!

For a university assignment, I had to “display” my modeling progress. My instructor wanted me to do a screenshot every 60 seconds. However…

We will be taking a look at how you can light your scene using the “infinite white background” look. This look is commonly used to present…

By default, you select faces in Maya with the whole face. I recommend changing this setting to “Center”. It makes it easier to select faces…

The Bridge-Tool creates a bridge between edges or faces. To use the tool you need to select on both sides the same number of edges or faces…

Today we will be creating a cool looking neon sign. Neon signs were extremely popular in the US from 1920-1960. These days you will still…

The mia_material_x has an artificial specular highlight, seemingly reflecting the light source, even though no light source is “visible…

When rendering with Mental Ray I always use a dedicated RenderCam. To create this camera I usually do the following Create the Camera Rename…

Sometimes you want to rotate an object 90°. The most common technique is to open up the Channel Box and manually enter the value. We will…

Now and then Maya forgets to load “mental ray”. To avoid the hassle of having to manually load the plugin, I wrote a simple script that is…

You cannot use the “Duplicate” or “Duplicate Special”-tool to duplicate along with a curve. We are going to use an animation-tool to get a…

The course takes around 1hour and covers the basics of modeling in Maya. If you do not have any experience in Maya it is a great starting…

Let’s take a quick look at how to punch holes in Poly Objects. It is possible to do this using the “Mesh > Booleans > Difference” Tool…

And the Oscar goes to the teapot!

Sadly Autodesk does not provide Debian Linux packages. This makes it quite difficult to get Maya running on Ubuntu. Here is my modified…

Is there life on Mars?

Inspiration is standing on your table

Do you have the time?

Tell me do you like scary movies?

Are you feeling lucky?

Peekaboo!

You will stop procrastinating. Later.

The Greatest Addiction Ever!

PHENOMENAL COSMIC POWERS! Itty-bitty living space!

Wouldn't a solid gold fiddle weigh hundreds of pounds and sound crummy?

With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine.

Failure paves the way to success!

Connecting people!

Image Based Lighting (IBL) allows you to use High-Dynamic-Range (HDR) images as. To efficiently use sIBL images you would need to set up an…

Little Green Monsters!

Gravity is just a habit

If you're gonna build a time machine into a car, why not do it with some style?

Roads… where we're going we don't need roads

London has fallen

We are not alone

Your eyes can deceive you. Don’t trust them.

June 21, 1893 The Chicago Wheel is presented at the World’s Columbian Exposition. It was constructed to rival the Eiffel Tower.

"With a little bit of imagination, anything is possible." MacGyver

Blueprint of today

Frag ihn, ob er mich noch liebt

lightning is going to strike the clock tower at precisely 10:04 PM

Why are you still sitting around?

Support is more important than you think

A posh living room based on this tutorial.

For one of the design courses at the university of Ulm I created a logo. While for a typical logo you would have to take the brand into…

Never good when you end up here

The princess is in another castle

Anyone can play guitar

He was a punk - She did ballet - What more can I say?

There is a hidden message

Didn't bother to look up the name

Charging up

The last couple of weeks I was working on my final project to complete the course “Praktikum 3D Modellierung” at the LMU-Munich. For my…

Back to School

Do you remember that really old movie?

He really does play dice!

The TIE-INTERCREPTOR was first seen in StarWars - Return of the Jedi. The geometric shape of the starship is ideal to learn basic 3D…

Trying to model a Fish based on this Tutorial.

Make it so!

In the beginning...

Lets get this rolling

Santa clause is coming

Literally your life blood

Love is like magic, but is sometimes just an illusion

At school I was involved with a lot of technical and media stuff. I started to create a couple of smaller videos and document school plays…