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TopDown Engine
PRICE £65/$80 DEVELOPER More Mountains WEBSITE topdown-engine.moremountains.com Character controller Camera effects Level controller Multiplayer ready Unity is a fantastic engine for creating top-down games, and there's no better plugin to get it don
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Technique Focus
Based on the concept by Ningbo Jiang (artstation.com/artwork/xzVVRr) Software Maya, ZBrush, Substance 3D Painter, Marvelous Designer, Marmoset Toolbag Year made 2024 AAA-STANDARD CHARACTERS This project let me explore organic materials like leather a
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Can I Bake Maps In Nomad Sculpt?
Imagine you have a 3D model of a character in your software. You've painted details like the skin pores, fabric patterns, and even dirt smudges directly onto the surface. You may have even sculpted high-definition details too. Instead of calculating
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Highland Warrior
BASED ON THE CONCEPT BY TERRY WEI (artstation.com/artwork/eazlEX) Edu Morales Ojeda Maya, ZBrush, Marvelous Designer, Wrap, RizomUV, Marmoset Toolbag, Substance 3D Painter, FiberShop, Photoshop “This project is the culmination of my journey through m
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Create Stylish Hand-painted Character Art
Practical tips and tutorials from pro artists to improve your CG skills WATCH THE VIDEO https://bit.ly/3dworld-monarch Stylised characters are my passion, and in this tutorial I'll go through my steps for creating a high-quality unlit and hand-painte
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How Do I Quickly Iterate Lighting For Lookdev Using Redshift And Cinema 4d?
3D rendering can be a massively time-consuming process for artists, which can tie their primary machine into render cycles. That means having to wait until a render is done before moving on to the compositing process. This is why it's important for 3
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Syncing Up Jimmy
Given that Anthony Hopkins was only doing the voice of Jimmy with Dustin Ceithamer on-set interacting with the actors, it was important the two performances be in sync with each other. “We did a scratch track with Anthony Hopkins that our editor Dody
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THE ART OF Surajit Sen
Inspiration can strike us from any number of sources. It could be what we see and experience within the world around us, influences from other creators, or experimenting with different techniques and materials, to name just a few. Some artists posses
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Pro Camera 2D
PRICE £35/$45 | DEVELOPER Luís Pedro Fonseca WEBSITE www.procamera2d.com Orthographic and perspective cameras Forward focus Rails for height level changes Pro Camera 2D is a modular camera plugin that provides one of the very best camera solutions fo
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Rebels With A Cause
Whether it be superheroes fighting each other or their archenemies, travelling to ancient Sparta to recreate legendary military feats, entering the mind of a psychiatric patient, or a zombie outbreak, Zack Snyder has a developed a distinct visual sty
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Welcome
It never ceases to amaze me how certain characters continue to thrive, even after some less than critically acclaimed instalments. This issue we take a good look at one of the most perennial cult characters out there, Godzilla, who has returned to ou
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Zuko
“For this project, my primary goal was to incorporate stylised visuals, all stemming from my 3D base. The idea was to create a dynamic 2D/3D feeling, which required a complex shader to bake the lights and maintain the dynamism and hand-painted appear
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Novel Thinking For Simulations
Konrad reveals: “After Cate Randa sees the bus go over the edge in episode 101, getting the timing right was dfficult, so the team had to cheat objects ahead and behind the bus to get the smoke reacting at the right time, and then closing up behind t
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RTX 4080 Super
PRICE £960/$1,215 COMPANY Nvidia WEBSITE nvidia.com Rob is Editor of 3D World and also works as a creative director, producing 3D animations and VFX. When not at his desk, he can usually be found painting miniatures. robredman.co.uk Excellent build q
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Recreating Cinematic Moments
Konrad states: “For Godzilla's bridge sequence, a lot of what was essential was limiting the scope of the set so that we could digitally extend as was appropriate. MPC did the work for both the 2014 film and our take, so we had most of the same asset
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Technique Focus
Software 3DCoat, Blender, Photoshop Year made 2024 BUILD UNIQUE ENVIRONMENTS This piece was made under the mentorship of Sathish Kumar, with the challenge of creating an environment filled with unusual ruins, and to come up with a set of ideas, sketc
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LightWave 2023
PRICE £795/$1,000 COMPANY LightWave Digital WEBSITE lightwave3d.com After graduating with a first-class computer science degree, Paul Hatton has spent nearly two decades working within the 3D visualisation industry. bit.ly/3vuv0AT Powerful new proced
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Add Rain To Renders In Post-production
Rob is Editor of 3D World and also works as a creative director, producing 3D animations and VFX. When not at his desk, he can usually be found painting miniatures. robredman.co.uk Adding atmospheric effects to your renders can be something of a chal
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This Is Not A Lightsaber
“It's interesting that you bring up Star Wars because I've done a handful of projects now where there are interactive sticks glowing in someone's hands,” notes Taormina. “There's only so much you can do for that. When I had that initial conversation
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Watch Out For The Spires
“In the original design for the planet of Neu-Wodi, where we meet the Bennu and the flight takes place, it was an arid planet motivated by the fact they were shooting on a location like a desert,” explains Bob Winter, a VFX supervisor for Framestore.
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Epic Sci-fi Projects
I chose to create fan art of the Thunderjaw from Horizon Zero Dawn because I absolutely love the game, and I want to do more hard-surface work in the future. I decided to rely on only the few references I found and make my own version. For the last p
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Conclusion
Unity is an incredible gaming engine, and other than Unreal Engine, you'll be hard pushed to find a more capable program. But software is often only as strong as the community that supports it, and Unity has a seriously committed fanbase. Many are de
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Intentional Bluescreen Lighting
“There used to be ideas about how you light bluescreen, but we've proved that you can put intention into it,” says Hall. “For the reactor scene, it's dark and lit by the cocoons of the creatures off daylight that's coming from 300 feet above from a g
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Step By Step Create Cinematic Shots
Use the Real-time View to orbit and zoom your camera with either your mouse or trackpad. I also like to use the four sliders included in the Camera Settings panel, as these allow for much finer adjustments than you could achieve directly in the Viewp
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Blast Furnace
“The concept behind this artwork was for it to be a commercial cinematic for a video game. My goal was to create a bold, unpleasant and scary setting of endless hard work. Imagine a giant metal heart that has been beating deep underground for a long
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How Do I Create Cinematic Cameras In Keyshot?
After graduating with a first-class computer science degree, Paul Hatton has spent nearly two decades working within the 3D visualisation industry. bit.ly/3vuv0AT Mike Griggs is a digital content creator with over two decades of experience creating V
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1920s ARCANE HANDHELD CONSOLE
“I often scroll through ArtStation projects to find something that looks fun to recreate in 3D, and this is exactly what happened with this handheld console concept from IWSE Zhang. I fell in love with the retro feel of the piece and saw something th
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3D World
Editor Rob Redman rob.redman@futurenet.com Art Editor Ryan Wells Production Editor Henry Burridge Contributors Trevor Hogg, Sanghoon Oh, Cesci Angell, Weston Reid, Oscar Juárez, Greg Brown, Anastasia Kukosh, Paul Hatton, Mike Griggs, Glen Southern, P
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Make An Animation For A Moving Vehicle
WATCH THE VIDEO https://bit.ly/3dworld-monarch The MadCar plugin introduces elements such as suspension Creating in 3D becomes more and more friendly every passing day with new tools being released. These are incredibly helpful for working on various
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DRAMA & SPECTACLE
Looming large on AppleTV+ are kaiju, as well as the mysterious global organisation founded to keep track of them, which lurks in the shadows of public consciousness. Created by Chris Black and Matt Fraction, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters bridges and fi
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