In this lesson you will learn how to create ripples on water that appear to cross over and float through each other. This will be done by using multiple water textures that will be layered to provide information to a bump node to produce the ripples...

Here you will be taught how to make a realistic landscape in 3dsm. This tutorial is for version 5, but should work with 3 and 4 as well. In this tutorial, all settings will be done under metric units. If you wish to follow along exactly, change settin...

Open or create a new object in Cinema 4d. The process of rendering larger files can take quite a while when rotating, keep this in mind. If you do not have something made already, go to objects > primitive > Pyramid

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!

Here's the fastest way I know to unify two polygons. >Step 1 - Put one polygon in the foreground and the other in the background. >Step 2 - In the TOOLS menu, hit DRILL and pick Z SLICE. >Step 3 - Swap the layers ( hit the ' key ) >Step 4 - Still in the...

"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...

First thing I do is Right click in the Left view and click "Choose background image" and find the image I will be working from. I am going to build the middle part of the gun first so I add a load of vertexs' around the outline and in key places...

Okay, lets get on with creating the stairs. Switch to Layer 4, which should now be empty, and activate the Box Tool. Bring up the Numeric Panel and use the following settings...

This tutorial is complex from the point of view of modeling, because the user will pass thorough different techniques like surface tools(spline modeling), mesh edit (polygonal modeling), mesh smooth. This tutorial is not recommended to beginners, although they will learn some useful tricks from here...

Here we will make a tentacle using 3DS Max. It is a bit long but you will make it through. Step-by-step instructions proceed...