Creating City Blocks - Part 29
In this movie, you use a free script to animate the "growth" of a building, and watch it get created from the grounds up.
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Creating City Blocks - Part 28
In this movie, you use the Populate tool to add animated pedestrians to your city scene.
Creating City Blocks - Part 27
In this movie, you turn an empty building lot into a park and then place and animate a camera to get an interesting shot at your newly-built city.
Creating City Blocks - Part 26
In this movie, you place and randomly rotate nine city grids by 90 degree-increments to create an irregular pattern. In the process, you learn to write a simple script that creates a "Randomize" button to automate the task.
Creating City Blocks - Part 25
In this movie, you turn your buildings into simple editable polys to reduce calculating time. You can create in-project duplicates or you can export and store buildings as external files to use with other projects and other 3D applications.
Creating City Blocks - Part 24
In this movie, you explore additional Building Maker functionality and learn to create multi-part parapets that are mapped differently. You also learn to copy levels to insert and edit building blocks after you have created the building hierarchy.
Creating City Blocks - Part 23
In this movie, you continue exploring Building Maker's capabilities by learning how to create buildings that have multiple footprints.
Creating City Blocks - Part 22
In this movie, you use Building Maker, a tool that helps you automate many of the steps required to create low-polygon buildings, using an intuitive and unified interface.
Creating City Blocks - Part 21
In this movie, you make use of the macroscripts you created that automate repetitive tasks to complete the first low-poly building you started earlier. You will be able to witness how macroscripts can cut down your production time extensively.
Creating City Blocks - Part 20
In this movie, you use the Macro Recorder to record and reuse the repetitive tasks you needed to create a floor volume. You then create a new 3ds Max toolbar in which you add a button that invokes your custom scripts.
Creating City Blocks - Part 19
Here, you learn to create low-poly building geometry by extruding simple 2D shapes to create building blocks. Later, you will learn to automate the workflow using macro scripts.
Creating City Blocks - Part 18
In the third and final installment of this series, you learn to create low-polygon buildings using a variety of methods. This first movie concentrates on creating a texture library, or build upon the one already provided with this tutorial.
Making-of the Channel Trailer - Part 1
This tutorial shows how the trailer that precedes every movie on this channel was done. In this first movie, you set the basis for the bouncing arrow. Later, you fine-tune the animation and the look by adding ripples, materials and proper scene lighting.
Making-of the Channel Trailer - Part 2
In this movie, you create the arrow that travels and deforms along a the path. With the help of a simple sphere, you get the illusion that the arrow bounces are causing the water ripples.
Making-of the Channel Trailer - Part 3
In this movie, you create the ripple effect using the Flex modifier. The Flex modifier uses a dynamic simulation to create the effect, which is easier than manually animating ripples using other options like the Ripple modifier.
Making-of the Channel Trailer - Part 4
In this movie, you add materials to the various objects to bring the scene to life. You mostly make use of mental ray material as this is what works best with the mental ray rendering engine, especially when it comes to reflections and refractions.
Making-of the Channel Trailer - Part 5
In this movie, you add lights to improve the final render. You will use simple mr lights as they are easy to set up and to work with in many non-physically accurate circumstances.
Making-of the Channel Trailer - Part 6
In this movie, you animate rings to appear under the ripples. You will synchronize the animation to coincide with each arrow bounce. In a later movie, you'll also need to animate "connectors" going from one ring to another.
Making-of the Channel Trailer - Part 7
In this movie, you animate the lines that connect the rings together. There are different ways you can go about that, some more complex than others, but you will use a simple approach as it works well enough in this scene.
Making-of the Channel Trailer - Part 8
This last movie is an addendum, and shows that the flex modifier used in the trailer can be used equally well to create other interesting effects. Here, you will use flex to create wake effects like those created by boats or other marine vehicles.