Table of contents for June 2016 in 3D World

SUBSCRIBE Subscribe to 3D World and get both the print and digital editions. Turn to page 52 for the latest offers! FREE! VIDEO AND ASSETS Turn to page 98 If you’ve ever wanted to create amazing creatures for film, games and illustration then this is the issue for you! Cover artist Ian Joyner, who helped design the dinosaurs of Jurassic World, reveals his techniques for sculpting dynamic monsters on page 54. In our training section you’ll discover how to craft textures for games in Substance Painter (page 66), create soft fur for animation in 3ds Max (page 74) and achieve photoreal textures for birds in Mari (page 60). You can bring it all together into a ZBrush 3D print too – and you can download the ZBrush model (right). If you…

GET PUBLISHED EMAIL YOUR CG ART TO ian.dean@futurenet.com Visit the online Vault to download extra process art for these projects: www.3dworldmag.com/vault/3dw208 ROBOTIC MOUSE ARTIST Amanda Mierau SOFTWARE Maya, ZBrush, KeyShot, Photoshop Canadian-based 3D modeller and generalist Amanda Mierau created her sleek Robotic Mouse over three weeks. Having previously worked for Method Studios and as a marketing 3D freelancer, Amanda found this personal project a pleasant change of pace. “I enjoyed designing this little guy, and seeing him come to life,” she says. “Figuring out how certain parts would function and adding character and personality to him was quite rewarding.” With a degree in fine arts under her belt, plus an extra year of 3D schooling, Amanda rendered her rodent without encountering any problems. “The packages these days have great features…

3D COLLEGE DENMARK WEBSITE: www.3dcollegedenmark.dk COURSES OFFERED (IN-HOUSE): Multimedia Animator STUDENTS: 90 PLACEMENT RATE: Approx 20% (with the rest going on to higher education) 3D College Denmark is the place to be if you have a passion for 3D. Located in Grenaa, one of Denmark’s most beautiful natural resorts, the college offers expert 3D training delivered by experienced tutors. Boasting an extensive network in the 3D industry, 3D College Denmark offers internships with a wide range of Danish game, VFX, visualisation studios and architects, most famously Kiloo Games, Lani Pixels, Cadesign Form and M2 Film. “I think the fact that you have to stay and work at a company for two-and-a-half years to get into, and finish, the Multimedia Animator course really sets it apart,” comments student Simon Holm. “The…

ARTIST PROFILE Paul H. Paulino Paul is a texture painter and look development artist currently working in Vancouver, Canada, at Scanline VFX. paulhpaulino.com TOPICS COVERED Texturing Modelling Creating colour palettes Detailing Painting EXPERT TIP Limit your references You’re going to find a lot of variation in your references. Stick with one to three during the project and use the others to understand detail patterns. The Southern Cassowary was a collaborative project between myself and my friend Daniel Rodrigues (www.danielsrodrigues.com). It is the third and last piece of my student reel completed at Think Tank Training Centre. During my time in school I was mentored by Justin Holt, who is an incredible artist that guided me through the whole texturing process. After deciding to texture the cassowary I asked my talented…

V-Ray for Nuke nodes may feel familiar, allowing us to figure them out using logic and experience of standard Nuke nodes AUTHOR PROFILE Josh Parks Josh is a compositor at Double Negative and part-time lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire. www.joshparks.co.uk In last month’s article I went over how to create and use the Position pass in order to generate custom mattes, to speed up our V-Ray for Nuke workflow. This issue I’m going to go over some more advanced V-Ray for Nuke techniques and ways to use them. The majority of the V-Ray for Nuke nodes may feel familiar, allowing us to figure them out using logic and experience of standard Nuke nodes. Understanding these should complete your introduction to the plug-in and put you in a good place…

PRICE $2,495 | COMPANY Eos Systems Inc | WEBSITE www.photomodeler.com MAIN FEATURES SmartMatch DSM Automated coded targets anual marking and referencing AUTHOR PROFILE Paul Hatton Paul leads a studio in England specialising in creating beautiful and interactive videos and environments. He has been working in the industry for over a decade. www.cadesignservices.co.uk THE HISTORY OF EOS SYSTEMS INC For over 25 years Eos has been developing and marketing technology that combines photogrammetry with 3D modelling. This is an ever expanding industry and in recent years has got real traction in the arch-viz industry as an increasing number of visualisers are using it to create models of organic objects, like food. PhotoModeler doesn’t just rely on automatic solutions which leave the user helpless if it doesn’t work PhotoModeler has been around…

10GB OF VIDEO & FILES GET YOUR RESOURCES You’re three steps away from this issue’s video training and files… 1. GO TO THE WEBSITE Type this into your browser’s address bar: www.creativebloq.com/vault/3dw208 2. FIND THE FILES YOU WANT Search the list of free resources to find the video and files you want. 3. DOWNLOAD WHAT YOU NEED Click the Download buttons and your files will save to your PC or Mac. PLUS! There are more files, art and resources waiting online… Files Download the files to get more from our V-Ray for Nuke training Files Download the training for this issue’s Artist Q&A tutorials Artwork Download the extra tutorial images to accompany Showcase Artwork Download the files to follow our 3ds Max abd Mari training VIDEO+PROJECT FILES MAYA FUR TUTORIAL…

TO ENTER GO TO: WWW.THEROOKIES.CO JUSTIN MOHLMAN Justin is a game artist and educator with over 10 years’ experience in the gaming world. justinmohlman.com ANNA SWIFT Anna has worked in recruitment within the creative industries for over a decade. She currently works at Framestore as a crewing and talent development manager. www.framestore.com Often students will make a generic portfolio and cast a large net out and apply to every studio… studios can tell when that happens Justin Mohlman, judge, The Rookies With the deadline for entering new international awards scheme The Rookies (29 May) fast approaching, we caught up with game artist and educator Justin Mohlman to find out what else you can do to raise your profile as a creative. Justin is a judge at The Rookies – dubbed…

EXPERT PANEL Pietro Chiovaro For the last few years, Pietro has worked creating 3D assets and environments, and is currently working on an open-source game. www.bit.ly/pietro-chiovaro Francesca Forzoni A 3D artist/visualiser in London, Frankie recently moved from postproduction to branding and packaging and currently works at Design Bridge. www.francescaforzoni.com Zeno Pelgrims Zeno is a CG student with a passion for animation and VFX. He is currently finishing his last year at the NCCA, in Bournemouth, UK. zenopelgrims.com Cecilia Piemontese Cecilia is a freelance animator and illustrator. She has produced music videos, adverts, content for the web and moving image presentations. www.ceci.tv Rob Redman Rob runs a 3D animation and VFX studio, working for clients ranging from governments to rock stars. He’s also an industry commentator and trainer. www.pariahstudios.co.uk GET IN…

EXPERT TIP Different parameters When you are going to fix the value of the world volume density, make some renders using different parameters. In this way you will understand which value will help you to achieve the right density for the lighting and this will also help you to achieve the best result. A Pietro replies One of the elements that characterises this render is the lighting. To create this effect, we have to set the scene. The first decision to make is to choose the typology of the light: In this scene I used a Spot light and a Point light. The value of strength for the Point light, that I placed at the centre of the scene, is 100.000, and the strength of the Spot light, that I…

FOR MORE ON YOUR FREE DOWNLOADS & VIDEO TRAINING TURN TO PAGE 98 GET YOUR RESOURCES You’re three steps away from this issue’s video training and files… 1. GO TO THE WEBSITE Type this into your browser’s address bar: www.creativebloq.com/vault/3dw208 2. FIND THE FILES YOU WANT Search the list of free resources to find the video and files you want. 3. DOWNLOAD WHAT YOU NEED Click the Download buttons and your files will save to your PC or Mac.…

ARTIST PROFILE Sébastien Giroux Sébastien is a senior character artist at Activision Quebec, currently working on the Call of Duty franchise. He has been working in the video game art industry for almost a decade working for studios, like Ubisoft Montréal on many of their IPs. www.artstation.com/artist/hellrainbow TOPICS COVERED Baking textures Modelling Polypainting Texture maps EXPERT TIP Decimation Keep in mind the decimation you see in ZBrush is without any smoothing groups or soft polygons; they are all hard polygons and many of those hard artifact details won’t appear in the normal map baking result. This past year has been a game-changer for the video games industry and for us artists lucky enough to earn a living from making games. The emergence of physically based rendering (PBR) has changed the…

FREE! DOWNLOAD THE ZBRUSH MODEL ARTIST PROFILE Aybars Turan Aybars is a character and creature artist who uses his fine art background to imbue his sculpts with life and realism. He works at Tesla Motors as a senior concept modeller. www.aybarsturan.com TOPICS COVERED Sourcing references Concept art Sculpting 3D printing For this creature anatomy project, I had the privilege of working with Terryl Whitlatch. We worked on the skeletal, muscular and vascular system for this creature. You can also find the Pyrosuvious in Terryl’s book, Principles of Creature Design. The purpose of this project is to create an anatomy of a believable imagined creature. Creating a creature that does not exist is already a challenging task, especially since we see creatures in movies, commercials and games, all the time. Making…

The beauty of this type of application is that it frees the artist up to work in a way that suits them AUTHOR PROFILE Rob Redman Rob is creative director at a boutique VFX and animation studio, working across print, film and TV. He presents at shows from FMX to Trojan Horse was a Unicorn, as well as teaching 3D. pariahstudios.co.uk THE KEY IS TO EXPERIMENT Fusion is the kind of app that rewards experimentation, so I would advise you to hook things up in ways you might not expect, and just see what happens. Fire, floods and destruction are some of the most common tasks given to VFX artists and in this tutorial I’m going to show you how you can quickly create a plume of 3D fire that…

PRICE Indie: $149, Pro: $590, Rent-to-own Substance Live Indie: $19.90 monthly, Pro: $64.90 monthly | COMPANY Allegorithmic | WEBSITE www.allegorithmic.com AUTHOR PROFILE Cirstyn Bech-Yagher Cirstyn is a freelance CG artist and educator, with over a decade’s experience in 3D, focusing on modelling and texturing. www.twitter.com/cirstyn AWARDS! AWARDS EVERYWHERE! The Substance suite has, together with competitor Quixel, removed a lot of hassle and added ease and functionality to texturing. Recently awarded the label ‘BpiFrance Excellence’, Allegorithmic was chosen by Creative France to represent French innovation abroad. You can see Painter’s output at work in games ranging from EA Sports to Rainbow Six Siege. MAIN FEATURES Fast HQ texture creation New tools: Clone and Smudge New Mask Editor Smart Masks Iray/Yebis integration Painter 2 feels smoother when using brushes and detailing –…

Francesca Forzonie A 3D artist/visualiser in London, Frankie recently moved from post-production to branding and packaging and currently works at Design Bridge. She joins our Artist Q&A panel on page 30 to explain how to create a liquid-metal effect in Cinema 4D. www.francescaforzoni.com Paul H. Paulino Paul is a texture painter and look development artist currently working in Vancouver, Canada, at Scanline VFX. You can read his tutorial on page 60, where the artist reveals how he uses references to model and texture a lifelike bird in Maya, Mari and V-Ray. www.paulhpaulino.com Mark Osborne Mark is an American filmmaker and animator who brought the world Kung Fu Panda. This issue we catch up with the director to discuss the cinematic adaptation of The Little Prince, and how he mixed rendered…

GET PUBLISHED EMAIL YOUR SHORT TO ian.dean@futurenet.com SARA JESPERSEN HOLM Sara graduated with a Bachelor of Character Animation from The Animation Workshop in January 2016. Sara works as a film director, writer and animator.. www.vimeo.com/150113247 VITAL STATISTICS TEAM Director Sara Jespersen Holm Other contributors Agnete Maltha Winther, Sara Fenya Aunbirk, Casper K. Christensen, Anne Birk Petersen, Louise Gregersen, Stine Dalsgaard Andersen, Frederikke Berg, Camilla N. Anderson SOFTWARE Maya, TVPaint, Photoshop, Premiere Pro, ZBrush, Nuke, Mari, After Effects, Shotgun PRODUCTION TIME 10 months By setting it up like this, we could easily work with different staging possibilities until late in the pipeline with the camera and edit locked RENDER LAYERS TO THE RESCUE For each shot we rendered two or three light setups using red, green and blue, to shuffle the…

EXPERT TIP Teamwork If you only ever work on your own you can do whatever works for you to get the results you want, but increasingly software is requiring us to work with physical settings. This makes it easier to create photo-real results, but also means that sharing assets is more likely to result in consistency across teams and projects. Set up your scene using a known scale and create your materials based on this scale A Rob replies This is a very good question and the answer deals with a few aspects of material creation that are really important to producing believable renders. The overall answer is a combination of things, but the main part would be to have a standardised method for creation that you stick to, allowing…

ARTIST PROFILE Per Haagensen is a concept artist and illustrator working at EA studio DICE. bit.ly/per-haagensen VITAL STATISTICS JOB TITLE Concept artist and illustrator NOTABLE CREDITS Mirror’s Edge Catalyst, World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, Battlefield 4, Age of Conan: Rise of the Godslayer COUNTRY Norway ARTIST INSIGHT Pose your heroes Per Haagensen says you need to focus on the technical aspects of poses “Whilst I don’t necessarily think there is the ‘perfect’ superhero pose, there is one thing I often see forgotten, which is making sure you take advantage of camera distance and angle of view. As important as accomplishing the dynamic, strong pose, getting the (virtual) camera right and set up in an interesting manner can be the key to a successful superhero pose.” I don’t really separate the experiences……

ARTIST PROFILE Ian Joyner Ian is a concept designer, illustrator and art director. His credits include Jurassic World and Godzilla. He teaches online at www.secretlabs.xyz. www.ianjoyner.com TOPICS COVERED Sculpting Concept design Render passes Presentation Whenever I start a new character I try and think of the how and why of what I’m doing. For this, we wanted a striking creature bust, screaming at the camera. I wanted to approach this in a very open manner and see where the digital clay would go. I did have a few things in mind. For some reason I wanted to do something red and somewhat shiny. I looked at ants, crustaceans and even rodents, and began to sketch out some rough ideas in my sketchbook. I like to start things in 2D –…

ARTIST PROFILE Josh Carey Josh is the head of rigging at Reel FX Studios and co-founder of the online rigging school, riggingdojo.com. His recent work includes rigging for Looney Tunes 3D Shorts. www.cgjosh.com TOPICS COVERED Ribbon rigs Follicle nodes Stretchy rigs EXPERT TIP Follicle shape Make sure you create your surface with the U direction following the length! Follicles aim down that direction by default, so save yourself some trouble by ensuring you’re going down the U. If you don’t do this, you can flip the follicle direction on the Follicle Shape node. If you forget about this, you will see shearing in your mesh that you end up skinning when the ribbon starts bending. Ribbon rigs are fairly common in production rigs these days. They have a similar behaviour…

PRICE £2,190 and £2,998.99 (respectively) | COMPANY HP and AMD | WEBSITE www.hp.co.uk, www.amd.co.uk AUTHOR PROFILE Cirstyn Bech-Yagher Tired of always having to wait for others to fix things that broke, Cirstyn has fixed and built her own workstations for years, AMD as well as Nvidias. www.twitter.com/cirstyn FAST AND MOSTLY QUIET The AMD FirePro W9100 is built for ease and speed, even when supporting up to four screens. Put it into a workstation like an HP Z840, add some RAM, an SSD and new, shiny peripherals, like a UHD screen, and you’ve got a pro workhorse that’s going to last you a while. It tore its way through tweaking and autounfolding a poly-heavy robot in Unfold 3D Having become a staple in the high end business and graphics market, we…

PRICE $59.99 (£42, 55) | COMPANY Escape Motions | WEBSITE www.escapemotions.com AUTHOR PROFILE Steve Jarratt Steve has been into CG for many years. He’s a regular contributor to 3D World and edited the magazine for two years. bit.ly/steve-jarratt SHEDDING SOME LIGHT ON AMBERLIGHT Amberlight started life as the experiment project, ‘Fields’, by developer Peter Blaskovic. The first version debuted at the end of 2013, when we suggested it would benefit from being animatable. It’s taken two years but that functionality has finally arrived, making Amberlight 2 a great addition to anyone’s creative armoury. MAIN FEATURES Renders complex streams of particles Outputs animation up to 4K resolution Low-res animation preview playback New Modifiers to alter pattern shapes Now features standard undo/redo The real beauty is in watching the image resolve, revealing…

PRICE £1,199 ex VAT/ 1,459/$1,799 | COMPANY The Foundry | WEBSITE www.thefoundry.co.uk MAIN FEATURES Camera Matching toolset Camera projection textures easy to create Projection shader allows a quick way of integrating objects into a scene Images can be arranged in Z-Depth from the camera plane AUTHOR PROFILE Mike Griggs Polishing pixels since 1995, Mike is a UK based freelance 3D, VFX and mograph artist. He also works as a freelance technical writer. creativebloke.com Modo adds a new camera matching and matte painting workflow in the latest point release. While not a unique feature, the native ability to match a Modo camera to that of a photographic still is hugely useful. It’s straightforward to bring in a photo, set the scene to the dimensions within the photo – either manually or…

PRICE $59 USD | COMPANY The Gnomon Workshop | WEBSITE www.thegnomonworkshop.com AUTHOR PROFILE Cirstyn Bech-Yagher Cirstyn is a freelance CG artist and educator, with over a decade’s experience in 3D, focusing on modelling and texturing. www.twitter.com/cirstyn MAIN FEATURES Good value for money A-to-Z walkthrough of using the Octane plug-in in Maya 2016 Easy to follow for beginners and existing users of Octane Experienced lecturer Good project files Octane Otoy’s unbiased GPU PBR renderer comes as a standalone or bundled version for most 3D applications – Maya included. In his latest lecture series for Gnomon, CG veteran Erik Keller, shows you how Octane standalone works, before diving into the nitty gritty of the plug-in’s render settings in Maya 2016. He then moves on to Octane lighting, materials, texture maps, camera settings,…