Simple Max Vray Render Scene Set-up

September.30.2010 · Posted By - Von

I know there’s a lot of vray render set-up tutorials all over the web, but please give me a try on this one. 🙂 I’m using 3ds Max 7 and Vray 1.5 RC2 and I think this settings will be applicable to all Vray plugins.

First, create a plane like figure 1. It could be like a letter “c” or “L” when you look in side view.  Of course I turbosmooth with 1 or 2 …

Dynamic Hair Rig

September.28.2010 · Posted By - berk

This is 15min tutorial on how to use Maya’s dynamic hair systems to deform your geometry. This is a great way to get fast realistic deformation that would be extremely difficult to obtain with key framed animation. Enjoy!

Building Herman – Part 1

September.21.2010 · Posted By - Rex

About a month ago, I set out on a project to start building a character in my off hours – A cartoon character for a short I want to produce some day.  I just wanted to talk broadly about the methods that I used in Maya to get the character, ‘Herman’, to the point of UV unwrapping and texturing, which will be Part II.  Part III will be rigging.

Herman is a paranoid hermit of sorts. I drew the character reference …