The Gnomon Workshop announces the release of Enviroment Modeling for Games, tutorial from 3D Artist, Nate Stephens, which is currently working at Sony Santa Monica as a Lead Enviroment Artist. Nate will explain various modeling tools, techniques, and workflows, as well as numerous theories and methods used to create game art in Maya. He will also cover common errors and mistakes to avoid so that the scene will run efficiently in real time and light correctly.

Branko Bistrovic published on 3Dtotal his new making of called „Breath On Your Neck“, illustration made in Photoshop. In his workflow Branko explains from where and what places he use to take inspiration for his work. How he told, the inspiration can come from everywhere and you have to catch it and hold. In the making of Branko explains techniques in Photoshop which helped him to start and finish his work using simple free brushes and his idea for the piece.

This making of is created by Aleso. In this tutorial is explained how correctly set up a realistic render with V-Ray 2.0 and 3ds Max 2011. We will also look at how to use IES lights, set lighting with V-Ray sun and V-Ray sky, use the V-Ray physical camera, and set up your render. Aleso detail described which features are the best to choose for lightning interior. So if you want to learn something about it or see how Aleso`s final work look like, you sure follow link bellow. 

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