This first part of the tutorial is going to deal with a quick efficient way to UV map a weapon in BODYPAINT, it may seem a bit daunting at first but after while you'll rip a gun to bits in 15 minutes!...

I was wondering how to make an animated camp fire the other day, so I had a play around and figured it out and I saved off pics as I went along and wrote this, I hope you find it useful! The image above shows the kinda thing you can create and animate quite easily in Cinema 4D!

This tutorial explains how to create some STATIC tank tracks for any tank/tracked model!! A Quick explanation is we create a SPLINE in the shape of the tracks from the side, and 1 Track section, then DUPLICATE the section 30-50 times and ARRANGE it along the SPLINE...

This tutorial explains how to create a tyre in a similar way to making tank tracks, make one tread object, DUPLICATE it 30-50 times and use ARRANGE to auto arrange them around a circle spline, also You will need the MAKETHICKER plugin, download and drop it into program files/maxon/cinema 4d/plugins,...

Editor's Pick in 3D Graphics, June 2005
In this tutorial you will learn how to start from a polygonal cube using Maya, and, with the help of several basic tools, create a giraffe.

"Extrude Face" on the Back end, and scale (with the green square), horizontaly, until you have divided the Back end into 3 faces instead of 1...

For this tutorial you need a good Knowledge of the Maya Tools...

Use "Complex tools" to model a Human Character.

Open Cinema 4d and start off by clicking "F5" on the top of your keyboard. The screen below should appear. Now you want to click and hold that to zoom out on the top-right, the bottom left and the bottom right screens. Now we can see our piece from all different directions...

Here I will teach you how to create an abstract flower thing (I really don't know what else to call it, so flower thing works for me. First we need to create a sphere. You can either go to Objects » Primitive » Sphere or you can select sphere from the Object Icon . Next we need to make it ed....