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CG Tutorial: Gnomon Hard Surface Texturing and Shading with Neil Blevins

CG Tutorial: Gnomon Hard Surface Texturing and Shading with Neil Blevins

DVD Video Tutorial about texturing, texture painting and shading with 3DS Max and Photoshop announced by The Gnomon Workshop and authored by Neil Blevins


IMAGE Architecture Tutorial: Stockholm Library interior

IMAGE Architecture Tutorial: Stockholm Library interior

The making process of the Exposé 7 Master Award winning image for Interior Architecture: “Stockholm Library interior”.


2D Digital Painting Tutorials: Illustrating Eyes with Photoshop by Digital Tutors

2D Digital Painting Tutorials: Illustrating Eyes with Photoshop by Digital Tutors

Learn elements and techniques to sketching, inking, and rendering eyes for toon, anime, manga, comic book, and portraiture styles with over 4 hours of step-by-step training.


Digital Painting Tutorial VIDEO: Jason Chan Character Design 1: Style Exploration, Adobe Photoshop

Digital Painting Tutorial VIDEO: Jason Chan Character Design 1: Style Exploration, Adobe Photoshop

Jason Chan of Massive Black, professional artist, released a new video tutorial for digital painters and concept artist dedicated to the exploration of character styles.


Digital painting tutorial: how to paint a landscape by Alain Descamps

Digital painting tutorial: how to paint a landscape by Alain Descamps

The always fresh CGArena just published a detailed step-by-step tutorial on how to paint a landscape with a digital painting software as Photoshop.


Digital Visual Effects Tutorials by cmiVFX

Digital Visual Effects Tutorials by cmiVFX

A rich collection of video tutorials about compositing, camera tracking, visual effects design and production.


How to draw Bird’s-eye illustrations for architectural and historical purposes

How to draw Bird’s-eye illustrations for architectural and historical purposes

A technical paper on how to design and draw bird’s-eye views with traditional techniques and 3D software tools. A beautiful gallery of illustrated works is accompanying the article.


Computer Graphics reference and tutorials for Renderman, Maya, Houdini and other 3D software tools

Computer Graphics reference and tutorials for Renderman, Maya, Houdini and other 3D software tools

Malcolm Kesson, CG technical director publishes a useful and rich set of resources and tutorials for Pixar Renderman software.


Rules and principles for image composition

Rules and principles for image composition

The article covers rules and principles to follow when you have to design the configuration of objects, lights and environments in an image regardless od the medium you are going to use: 2D illustration, 3D modeling and rendering, drawing.


I want to become a CG Artist: what should I do?

Jean-Eric Hénault on CG Channel gives some brief but useful hint to one of the most asked question in the Digital Arts field. I want to become a CG Artist: what do I need to know? This is my dream!! my life, i like the design, the graphic, the animations, all about CG, but i [...]