3D World December 2022

COVER ARTIST Piotr Krynski SOFTWARE Blender, Character Creator, iClone, Marvelous Designer, Photoshop This issue we have a wonderful selection of tutorials to help you get the most from your projects. Learn to use Houdini to simulate sprawling mazebased cities, create stunning motion graphics and use Blender to build narrativefocused renders. We also take a look at the latest tools to see if they are worth investing in, from the newest version of Gaea for worldbuilding to the most recent release of Arnold. On top of that we delve behind the scenes of Stranger Things Season 4 and Disney's live-action Pinocchio remake, to explore how the wonderful VFX was put together. Plus, we have our regular showcase of the best new art and fix your CG woes. rob.redman@futurenet.com…

The Gallery CG art to inspire “DO NOT LET A FEAR OF LEARNING AND TRYING NEW TOOLS PREVENT YOU FROM DOING SO” ARTIST Quinten Blake SOFTWARE ZBrush, Unreal Engine 5, Photoshop “I created this piece for the annual Atomhawk art competition which had the theme ‘Forgotten Creation’. My initial idea was to have ‘epic scale’, and for that I decided to create a scene where explorers discover this giant ancient golem. To achieve such epic scale I had to change my workflow a bit, so I decided to try Unreal Engine 5. After watching some tutorials and seeing the power of Nanite, and how artists use very dense and heavy assets with ease and without software limitations, using Unreal Engine turned out to be such an awesome and fun experience.…

• The Gallery CG art to inspire “I created this illustration as the training material for my team at the studio, to show how I am mixing 2D and 3D together when I create illustrations. I decided to make a fantasy theme and a creature (my favourite thing to do), and I started by gathering references from animal pictures, then sketched in Photoshop. After I got a rough design, I moved to ZBrush for sculpting, then Photoshop for post-processing.” • wasurah.artstation.com ARTIST Worasak Suwannarach SOFTWARE ZBrush, Blender, Photoshop…

• The Gallery CG art to inspire ARTIST Ernesto Ruiz Velasco SOFTWARE ZBrush, Maya, Arnold, XGen, Marvelous Designer, Fusion, Lightroom, Substance 3D Painter “This was an image I did for a ‘Draw This In Your Style’ challenge on Instagram. The original art was done by Leah F. (@leledoesdoodles), and I tried to capture the same aesthetic in my 3D render. Balancing the image with clean shapes and textures was a challenge, and one of the most interesting parts was to get the hair strands looking appealing and clean. I used ZBrush, Maya and Marvelous Designer for the model. Textures were done in Adobe Painter. I rigged and posed the character and gave a second pass of modelling tweaks in Maya. For the hair I used XGen, and final renders were…

• The Gallery CG art to inspire “I STARTED OFF STUDYING SOME OF THE BEST GAME CHARACTER DESIGNS AROUND AND DOVE INTO THE PRINCIPLES BEHIND THEM” ARTIST HaLLdor Heidberg SOFTWARE ZBrush, Maya, Substance Suite, Photoshop, Marmoset Toolbag, Marvelous Designer, Knald “This project was a big step into game character design for me. I started off studying some of the best game character designs around and dove into the principles behind them. Mainly I can point to Moby Francke, an absolute concept master. He emphasises the use of values, keeping the bottom part of characters darker and areas of interest light, for example the head or weapons. I'm by no means a proper 2D artist (yet) so I only started out with a 2D silhouette and then went straight into ZBrush,…

ARTIST Nick Bray SOFTWARE Photosphop, Blender “I wanted to try designing some kind of gun in the style of what I call ‘analog sci-fi’. I use storytelling as the basis for everything I design and I wanted to make some sort of SMG that was kinda clunky and old and still in circulation after many years despite its obvious shortcomings. To that end I looked at a lot of old WW1-2 era firearms, because there were a lot of interesting guns from around that time that had odd mechanisms, and then obviously some inspiration from old 70s machinery to really sell that feeling of it being old and out of date. Try and think about what story you want to tell with what you're designing. You can come up with…