Download CG Arena Magazine | Jul - Aug 13

Download CG Arena Magazine May - Jun 13

Download CG Arena Magazine | Dec - Jan 13 Issue

Download CG Arena Magazine Aug - Sep 12 Issue

Download CG Arena Magazine Jun - Jul 12 Issue

What  Inside  Apr - May 12 Issue

Escape Studio's May Free Tutorial: Sculpt Atmospheric Smoke in Maya Fluids

May Free Tutorial: Sculpt Atmospheric Smoke in Maya Fluids

Escape Studio's April Free Tutorial: Scurrying Scarab Beetles

Scurrying Scarab Beetles

I am sure most of you have seen " The Mummy" and " The Mummy Returns".If you also want to create the the thousands of beatles coming out from a hole or from the demon mouth effects which is shown in the movie . Escape studios vfx aritst and tutor Dan Shutt  will demonstrate you to how to animate thousands of beatels using Maya Goal  Objects and Particle Instance.

Autodesk Maya 2012 Service Pack 2-Released

Autodesk finally released the Maya 2012 Service Pack 2. The new service pack 2 includes several important fixes.

Escape Studios: January's Free Tutorial Animate a Bird & Make it Fly - Part 2

Last November Escape Studios gave away the 1st part of there free animation tutorial entitles "Animating a Bird & Making it Fly " in which they covered the mechanics of the bird locomotion and now they released the second part of the tutorial in which Alex Williams will demonstrate you how to take a simple avian flap cycle and put it in a believable environment. You'll also learn how to add personality and character to your work while retaining a simple workflow.  Learning to create a motion path and  to attach the bird to the motion path in also included in it. Finally to add a simple texture and lighting to the environment and to create a batch render to create a final shot for a animation showreel .

Duration: 22 minutes

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Escape Studios: December's Free Tutorial - Mastering Maya's Transfer Maps

Escape Studios released another free tutorial, In  this 26 Min  video  Tutor, Simon Fenton will explain you how to use default settings to achieve quick results, you’ll also learn how to bake a texture map from multiple pieces of geometry and how to manipulate settings.

Tutorials Breakdowns

• How to use default settings to achieve quick results
• How to manipulate settings and explore varying effects
• How to bake a diffuse texture map
• How to compare maps to gain control of the final result

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Digital Tutors: Maya tutorials to improve your modelling

3DWorldmag and Digital Tutors shared free tutorial to improve your modelling skills in Maya .In this 1 hour and 30 mins series of tutorial Justin Marshall will teach you how to create a smoother workflow and getting better results.

CGArena Animation Magazine Jul - Aug 11 Issue Available for free download

CG Arena released the another free  issue of there CG Magazine , its almost being  5 months when they released their Feb-Mar issue .

Jul - Aug 11 Issue Articles

• Interview with Patryk Habryn
  
  
• Photoshop: Painting Natalie
  
  
• 3ds Max: Making of Undercity
  
  
• Softimage: Making of Pink Converse
  
  
• Photoshop: Making of Daydreamer
  
  
• Maya: Making of a Day
  
  
• Gallery - Showcase of latest 3D inspiring art .

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Escape Studios:June's Free Tutorial Demolish a Brick Wall Using Maya's nCloth

The nCloth system in Maya is pretty cool. It allows you to simulate materials and effects, be it fabric for clothing, inflating balloons, shattering surfaces or deforming objects. The list is endless. This month’s free tutorial not only demonstrates the power of the nCloth solver but also the benefits of using it over an original rigid body system to demolish a brick wall.

What's in this Tutorial?
First of all, we will teach you how to turn basic primitive geometry into dynamic objects, be it nCloth geometry or passive colliders. We’ll then introduce some of the more common dynamic properties, like adjusting the collision settings in order to lower calculation time and speed up your work. The final section of the tutorial looks behind the scenes of nCloth in the hypergraph.  After discussing intermediate geometry, the dependency graph (DAG tree) and additional settings, we complete the scene by ensuring the correct animation of the ball being used to demolish the wall

Tutorial Breakdown

• Creating nCloth objects
• Optimising solver calculations
• Collision settings
• Dynamic properties
• Intermediate geometry
• DAG tree

Duration: 9:33 minutes

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