3d tutorials

Animatable Caterpiller Track
This fairly simple tutorial will teach you how to make a very realistic and fully animatable caterpiller track.

Animating a ball rolling along a path.
This is a very simple tutorial describing how to animate a ball or a wheel rolling down an iregular path.

Barrel Tutorial
For this tutorial no plugins are required! I have created the scene with 3D Studio MAX 3.1.

Basic Buttons
Above is a sample screen shot of what the interface will look like. We'll go on to explore more in-depth the various sections of the screen.

Basic Keyframing (The Bouncing Ball, part 1)
This tutorial will introduce you to basic keyframe animation in 3D Studio MAX. 1. Open 3D Studio MAX, or select File | Reset.

Basic Modeling Techniques
Here are some modeling techniques to prepare you for my upcoming tutorials. I use 3D Studio MAX but even if you use different software

Blinking Lights
In this tutorial I'll show you how to make lights struggle to stay on. I assume that you know some basic knowledge of 3D Studio Max 2.5

Book Tutorial
This tutorial will show you a quick and easy way to model a book. First off, create a box with 8 width segments.

Boolean Compound Object
This assignment will introduce you to 3-dimensional Boolean operations in 3DS MAX. 1. Launch MAX, or reset it using File | Reset.

Box Modeling a Cool Hovertank
Box Modeling. Read the instructions and work according to the pictures (look at the parameters).

Box Modeling an Alien
Before we get started, i'll just go over a few of the basics, in case you're a complete novice.

Brick Wall
This tutorial I'll demonstrate how to create a nice brick wall using bitmaps. As simple it sounds you may not get a realistic result

Bubbles
If you ever need to create bubbles for an animation, and would like to do it without spending a fortune on a plug-in that will

Build a Purple Alien
This is a 3D character building tutorial for 3D Studio MAX R3. The tutorial outlines how to construct a Purple Alien from polygons using

Bullet Time
This Tutorial is based on The Matrix key effect "Bullet Time." By using Keyframes it is relatively easy to set up the shot

Bumpy Guitar
I searched for a long time a solution for modelize the Bumpy board of this guitar. All software I had was'nt able to make it exactely as I wanted.