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Step 15 - Render and Bask in Finished Image

Alpha Mapping to Create Realistic Leaves

Alpha mapping is a technique in 3D computer graphics where an image is mapped (assigned) to a 3D object, and designates certain areas of the object to be transparent or translucent. The transparency can vary in strength, based on the ...

3D Rendering Tutorial Part Two

Welcome again! It's time to continue writing more code for our small, simple and regularly fast 3D renderer. Today we will write a few more classes: Vertex3D, Plane3D, Object3D, World3D, FlatFiller, and Triangle. – Our “Hello World”, which is actually ...

Mental Ray Caustics Tutorial (Maya)

Alright, after so much anticipation in creating a lighting tutorial in Maya, I'm back with a proper, easily understood, video lesson regarding Caustics. The Video lesson is about 20 minutes and focuses on Maya's Mental Ray system shaders and lighting ...

3D 101 Expanding on Matrices

Affine Transformations First and foremost, an affine transformation is simply a linear transformation followed by an addition. A linear transformation is an equation that operates on a vector to transform it into something else, the most popular linear transformations are rotation, ...

3D Burning Paper Tutorial (FumeFX)

3D Burning Paper Effect (Ian Steve) from Heather Craik on Vimeo. Hello everyone, I'm Ian Steve, welcome to another 3d tutorial. In this tutorial we are going to  to create a nice 3d burning paper effect with FumeFx plugin in 3DS ...