When I began writing this tutorial I found it difficult to separate lighting techniques from color theory and frame composition. I had to decide what I thought would be the most enlightening(sorry couldn’t ... more

In this tutorial I’ll show you how to render a scene with the Mental Ray renderer. I’ll divide it into two parts. The first one will cover the creation of lights and rendering a Photon map and the second ... more

This Tutorial is for 3ds Max Users with little or no experience at all. Yet, I assume that you have a general knowledge of computers and common sense=). I am using 3ds Max R4. In this tutorial we will ... more

The baking of lights into textures is being used in games industry mostly, but it’s more and more used among other users too. It’s a good way of putting the lights and shadows into a game or a scene. ... more

GI - GI means Global Illumination. Global illumination enhances the realism of a scene by simulating radiosity, or the interreflection of light in a scene. It generates such effects as "color bleeding," ... more

Caustics are really great light effects that you can observe in liquids, glass objects and gems. We are able to simulate this effect with 3D Studio Max perfectly. This tutorial about Caustics will work ... more

This tutorial is designed for advanced 3dsmaxers, I plan to cover how to create an aseteroid in 3D studio max using only max’s standard plugins. Essentially most of the work in creating the asteroid is ... more

In this tutorial I would like to show you how to make an interior scene using 3dsmax 6 and rendering with Vray . Certainly you can use other version of 3dsmax and Vray but it’s possible that you will ... more

Hi, I have done a tutorial on my blog about how it should be used more efficiently the VRay camera and some details about different settings and their corelation with the real life DSLRs. also some lighting ...

This great looking scene was created using fake global illumination and a fantastic MAXscript called E-light by Ronnie Olsthoorn. Here’s a quick tutorial on using e-light !