After publishing the Star Wars Lightsaber tutorial i decided to do also something from the Star Trek universe. By choosing what to do i came across the Phaser which was the basic weapon in all series and movies and so became a part of Star Trek. Moreover comparing these two weapons together we have on one side a Lightsaber with a simple shape but all small details on it and on the other side the Phaser with very less details but more complicated shape. This major difference between these two weapons make them actually ideal for tutorials where in one you can learn to add the details and in the second build complicated smooth shapes.

If you are old enough to remember the days when the cameras where filled with films and not flash cards you also know how vulnerable these photos where. After years they were in a place where you thought they will be fine all the time but suddenly they are damaged. Scratches, dust, sunlight and other factors can damage these photos and so destroy your memories which you wanted to preserve with these photos. In this tutorial I will focus how to reconstruct and breathe back life to these old photos and so bring memories back to life. At first we will clean our reference photo from dust and scratches using both Photoshop filters and brushes.

In this tutorial for beginners I will show you how you can model and texture an American Football using 3ds Max. First we will prepare the scene for modelling by placing a reference picture inside the view of 3ds Max and so keep the proportion of the ball 1:1 to a real world object. The next step will be the choosing of the right primitive with which we will model our football and also choosing the right approach for this. By this I will show you a method how you can easily transform a box into our object using few tricks and poly-modelling technique. After the ball will get its shape we will start adding details and so transform it to the ball on the reference picture.

In this tutorial we will continue modelling the next object for our interior creating a leather sofa for the living room. First we will set-up the initial scene inside Autodesk 3ds Max and place a plane which would hold our reference Picture according which we will model. Even though the reference picture is small it will provide us enough guidance for the size and scale of the sofa. Starting creating a plane which will be our initial shape we will slowly adjust and create the first rough shape of the sofa with respect on his details. Using poly-modelling technique and using the advantage of hard surface modelling we will create a low-poly sofa with all details and object we will see on the reference.