New Loft interiors

These are new loft interiors. Both done in mental ray.

Resources for 3D artists

These are some great free resources for bitmaps, tutorials, models and more:

Texture maps:

http://www.mayang.com/textures/

http://www.cgtextures.com/ 

Maps, models, tutorials & etc:

http://www.turbosquid.com/

http://vray.info/

http://www.heroturko.org/

http://www.3dlinks.com/

Enjoy !

3D max camera and light rigs - download and use them

http://www.onion3d.com/blog_downloads.html 

Here is a dome light rig, and a camera rig. Unzip the file to get them both. The camera is linked to 2 dummies, for better animation control - cleaner keyframing than a standard target camera.


Enjoy!

Lighting Materials fundamentals

This was done for a user group as a brush-up on the essentials of max standard lights & materials, specifically geared towards the scanline render engine.