Photography has always inspired me; I love especially shots of nature and wildlife from magazines like The National Geographic. During a recent travel in the South East of Asia, I visited Sriracha Tiger Zoo in Thailand and I took many photos of all the animals living there. There…

This is my work flow on how to create neon lights with 3ds Max default scanline rendering.

In this tutorial we will try to teach you how to use the Ambient Occlusion shader combined with caustics to create a fake global illumination effect. The tutorial is intended for people with a basic knowledge of 3DS Max.

Massimo used Maya 8.0 for the modeling (polygonal) and Mental Ray for rendering. The lighting was provided by an HDRI probe and two lights. Background and depth of field are rendered within Maya. There is no postwork, only an accentuation of the contrast in Photoshop used to create…

In this tutorial, Neoscape artist Carlos Cristerna will try to help you understand the complex world of the mental ray render engine. The tutorial is intended for people with a basic knowledge of 3DS Max.

Massimo Righi shows the main steps of how he created the image of the "Male Green Frog" using Maya 8 for modeling, mental ray for rendering and Photoshop for textures.

Material mapping in 3ds Max can be simple if you know what modifier to use in a particular mapping situation.