Character Artist Ian Joyner has a nice tutorial showing how he made his low-poly Wolverine, keeping it about 6k triangles. Click on the image to read it.

Via: The Career Gamer

This tutorial will teach you to create softly illuminated room environment as in a real auto studio very fast. Quick light positioning and auto paint material setup.

On NewTek Discussions forums you’ll find +16 hours of Free Lightwave Videotutorials. Check the whole thread because the amount of tutorials there is amazing!

Via: 3DM3

Great tutorial where Waniek Rafal explains some techniques and shows how to bake and create normal maps, which became very popular on this days, specially in game industry.

Via: 3DM3

The Precision Modelling Guide to Blender is a 151 page walk-through of Blender’s mesh modelling tools and design techniques. Illustrated with over 600 images it gives a clear and concise introduction to using blender. By progressing through the guide you will be introduced to many of Blenders commonly used modelling tools and also a few of the not so well known ones. The tools are presented in a real working design example with explanations of why the tools are used and not merely a demonstration of the tools in use.

Via: BlenderNation

If you are learning Blender, this is good news to you: cmiVFX has released the .blend file from their latest tutorial about composition techniques and render passes with Blender. Click the image to read more right at BlenderNation, where you can download the file.

News submitted by: Pere Balsach

computerarts.co.uk has a new tutorial showing how to get maya camera animation into After Effects, for integration or when you need some kind of effect easily achievable in AE but time consuming in 3D.

This video tutorial is intended to help you in extracting the best results from the light cache in Vray. Follow the link on the image to watch it online on CGArena.

This tutorial from Noesis Interactive shows you to take your 3D model from Maya and turn it into an active video game prop. Learn the processes of exporting, compiling, and integrating your prop into a level and then watch as it is used in Half-Life 2. A must have for anybody who wants to see their own creations as video game elements.

Check this new videotutorial on CGArena. Altough they called it “Modeling the Temple”, in fact there is no modeling at all in the video, it concentrates in lighting and rendering with vray.