Iron Baby, the viral sensation that swept YouTube last fall, is reconstructed in a series of video tutorials by Iron Baby creator Jocelyn “Strob” Simard. These 3ds Max tutorials are chock-full of great tips from modeling to texturing and special effects. The Iron Baby model itself is available here at TurboSquid.
Introducing the TurboSquid 3D Modeling Series
For the past year, TurboSquid has been on a valiant quest. Our goal was to find the answer to this important question: “What is a quality 3D model?” We searched high and low for the answer. We looked at resources on the Internet. We read and re-read books on 3D modeling. We perused forums, both ours and outside ones, for …
3D Modeling Standards: Scene Organization
When you’re creating a 3D model to sell at TurboSquid, you give the topology and textures a great deal of thought, making the model as clean and professional as you can. With these important things to think about, you might not be considering exactly how the customer is going to experience the model in his/her workflow. We’ve already discussed naming …
Wireframe Turntables: Do You Need Them?
Lately we’ve been kicking around modeling and presentation standards through customer and artist surveys, on our forums, in our Knowledge Base, and even internally at TurboSquid. One debate still raging is about the wireframe turntable, a 360-degree view of a 3D model in wireframe mode. You can see examples in the product previews for these 3D models. One of our …
3D Modeling Standards: Real-World Scale
With regard to scale, a digital 3D model is a funny thing. If the file says the building is 3 meters tall, the model renders the same as if it were 300 meters tall (unless the scene uses scale-sensitive lighting, but most scenes don’t). Scale becomes important only when you merge the 3D model into a scene, a very common …
3D Modeling Standards: Ngons
Our posts here on the best 3D modeling practices for different industries have garnered a lot of comments and opinions. One common theme is the question of quads (4-sided polygons) vs. ngons (polygons with more than 4 sides). We’ve heard from both customers and artists on this matter. Some customers tell us that they absolutely must have quads and triangles, …