5 YouTube Creators That Know How to Teach 3D Modeling

Jesse Radonski 3D Modeling

If you’ve ever wanted to sculpt digital dragons or breathe life into 3D characters, it’s no secret that YouTube is a fantastic online destination for beginners. Find the right instructor and you may be surprised how fast you can create and animate a scaly monstrosity…or whatever else your heart desires.  But with millions of channels to wade through, where do …

A neon-lit cyberpunk-inspired 3D environment by 3Denvironementmodels

Artist Spotlight: 3denvironmentmodels

Jesse Radonski Artists, Featured Artists

What do you get when you mix a 3D artist’s eye for photography with gritty, neon-soaked sci-fi worlds inspired by Blade Runner? The environments and objects of TurboSquid artist 3denvironmentmodels. Read on to learn more about 3denvironmentmodels’s influences, what considerations he makes when selling models on TurboSquid, and advice he’d offer for other 3D artists. Just crank up some synthwave …

Artist Spotlight: Marc Mons

Brad Thorne Artists, Featured Artists

What does a fine arts background bring to “painterly” 3D? Feast your eyes on the work of Marc Mons. Fascinated to learn how he brings that painterly aesthetic to cinematic 3D, we decided to put his work under the spotlight. We asked Marc about his artistic process, how he adds a sense of scale to his environments, and a common …

Light Path Expressions in Arnold for Maya

Francesco Furneri 3D Best Practices

A powerful way for creating fully custom render passes in Maya by considering the contribution of different light rays. Believe it or not, a renderer never ceases to amaze us in terms of functionalities! Nowadays, we might encounter situations where we need more control over the compositing of 3D rendered material.Many renderers already have features to produce custom render passes, …

Artist Spotlight: Deniz Ozemre

Larissa Mori Artists, Featured Artists

Deniz Ozemre’s career began with nothing more than a PC and a passion for digital art. Today, he works on some of the biggest movies in the world. As if that isn’t cool enough, he also creates photorealistic busts of historical figures like Beethoven and Socrates. We couldn’t resist catching up with Deniz to find out how his career got …