Issue 5 - HDRI 3D - Print Version
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FEATURING... COVER STORY: THE MAKING OF SIN CITY A behind-the-scenes look at how CaféFX helped create the gritty world of Sin City. BY CHRISTINE BUNISH I FEEL LIKE I'M GOING INTO ANOTHER DIMENSION... With theater releases of Steamboy ,Appleseed,and Innocence here in the States,it 's no secret that Anime has finally reached the attention of your average movie-goer.Here are 20 quick tips that should help get you on the path to making your own CG Anime. BY WILLIAM "PROTON" VAUGHAN MENTAL RAY FOR MAYA PART 2 Boaz explains how to render custom passes with mental ray and explains how to control the Framebuffer. BY BOAZ LIVNY MAKING FACES IN SOFTIMAGE|XSI Creating blendshapes and controllers within SOFTIMAGE|XSI using the advances made with v.4.0 to create an economical and fast setup. Learn to create 3D control sliders to combine different shapes and the expressions needed to link these to the shapes. BY MATT MORRIS SPLITTING CELLS Often applying image maps to HyperVoxels leads to unwanted results when animated.But by using LightWave 's integrated HyperVoxel textures,you can achieve excellent results. BY DAN ABLAN FACIAL EXPRESSIONS: USING ZBRUSH AND MAYA TOGETHER Pixologic's ZBrush is starting to make a huge impact in the CG animation and modeling industry. This tutorial shows one of the many ways in which incorporating ZBrush into your Maya animation workflow can make an arduous task, such as creating blendshape targets for facial animation, easy and fast. BY ERIC S. KELLER PARTICLES AND HYPERVOXELS - THEY GO HAND IN HAND Particles and collisions for bullet hits and the new gradient for HyperVoxels: Relative Particle Age. BY DEUCE BENNETT FINAL PREPARATIONS PRIOR TO BINDING THE MODEL Part 3 of Peter Ratner 's Setting Up the Human Model for Animation series. BY PETER RATNER INTRO TO NORMAL MAPPING Creating normal maps within a production pipeline for next-generation game engines, a technology fast becoming a prerequisite skill for all artists working on projects for new game engines and platforms. BY JAKE CARVEY UNCLE ROBIN'S MINI GUIDE TO MEL VOLUME 1: THE WAY OF PROGRAMMING An introduction to programming with MEL in a way that makes it easy to learn,use,and debug. BY ROBIN SCHER MODELING A CREATURE WITH THE EXTENDER TOOL By the time you're finished with this lesson, you will have mastered LightWave's Extender tool. BY ROBERT CALANDRIELLO COMPOSITING 101: LAYERS IN DIGITAL FUSION Explore the flexibility we have when working with layers produced from any favorite 3D application in order to deliver a better final version of our creative vision. BY GREGORY GLEZAKOS ESSENTIALS: LSCRIPT COMMANDER How to quickly create a plug-in so that every time a scene is loaded, a click of the button automatically adds a 3-point lighting setup. A great way to automate tasks! BY BRAD CARVEY INTRODUCTION TO MENTAL RAY PRORAMMING An overview of how even those with only limited coding skills can leverage some of the power of mental ray to create basic tools to enhance their pipeline, using the example of a reflection shader with distance-based falloff. BY ALAN JONES CHARACTER ANIMATION AND RIGGING FOR LIGHTWAVE This article describes how to use Maestro to auto-rig and then animate your character. BY BRIAN PACE KOOSHLINGS: An editorial by DARIUSH DERAKHSHANI FAREWELL An editorial by DAN ABLAN STUFF An editorial by BRAD CARVEY JOB PERSPECTIVES FOR SOFTIMAGE|XSI ARTISTS An editorial by RAFFAEL DICKREUTER FINAL RENDER: POOPING IN THE RING An editorial by ANDREA CARVEY

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