Happy Pony

"It is with great pleasure that we are finally in our online animated short film "Happy Pony" movie graduation achieved in late 2009.

This film directed by Alexandre Louvenaz Yannick Moulin Alexis Artaud, Romain Musso and Olivier Moulin, tells the story of a brother and sister, Martin and Camilla, lost in a world strange to say the least." http://happyponylefilm.wordpress.com/

Sintel - Durian Open Movie project

Trailer for the short animation film "Sintel", the Durian Open Movie project by the Blender Foundation. More information http://durian.blender.org

Animated Shorts pages

two pages containing animated shorts
very cute and cool
Page 1
Page 2

How To Use Curves in Photoshop By Owen James

"If I were forced to give up all but one image adjustment tool, I would keep curves. Hands down. The curves adjustment tool is an integral part of every professional’s knowledge base and image editing package." - Owen James

Link

Create Cityscape with 3ds max 2010 (timelapse version)

"In this speedup video, we use some tricks to create cityscape with 3ds max 2010. You need: 1. PolyRndExtrude (maxscript) 2. Advanced Painter (maxscript) 3. a lowpoly car to run this tutorial. Special thanks to Sai" - hammerbchen

It's taken from a Very nice Max video tutorials chennel, there are more video tutorials that are worth watching....

unfolding text tutorial - After effects

Step By Type - After Effects Tutorial from Mattias Peresini on Vimeo.

and a link to the tutorial

and a link to a bunch of tutorials by Mattias Peresini

50 Rendering Tutorials

it’s collection of most usefull cg tutorials by 3d rendering around cg sites. Hope you find this collection informative. worth checking..... I think most of them are for MAX

100 Impressive Artworks of Robots

3Dexport - worth wathcing.....

Create A Realistic Glass Reflection - Ran Ben Avraham

Transparency is an important element to reflect in one’s relationships and if we can help you in that area it’d be our pleasure! In this tutorial you’ll find out how to create a realistic glass reflection on a 3D object, created within After Effects. We’ll then simulate a normal pass and have it reflect the environment with the “normality” free plug-in - Ran Ben Avraham
Link to download the tutorial

AE+ tut - source

BonesPro4 for max from digimation

"BonesPro is a sophisticated, fast and optimized technology for organic skinning of characters and objects in Autodesk 3ds Max. It allows you to create high quality skin meshes rapidly with easy-to-understand bone influences and vertex assignments, impressive real-time skin-deformations and special-effects." - bonesPro.com

looks interesting... i would be happy to spend less time skinning rigs....need to be checked...

RandomControl - Arion render engine

yet another close to real time renderer, it would be nice to see a comperison between all the new render engines...

"At RandomControl we're resolute to pioneer the next step in light simulation. To this end we have taken all the expertise we have gathered in the making of our flagship product fryrender and worked on an entirely new technology designed to produce comparable output, but using every single computing device at your disposal. Arion makes use of our novel proprietary multi-CPU / multi-GPU / multi-IP interactive rendering technology."

Link

ParticleFlow For Packshots

ParticleFlow For Packshots from evermotion on Vimeo.

very nice tutorial about using PFlow for still and packshots

download tutorial files

Cartoon Network ID shorts

A promo for cartoon networks (more promos can be viewed on Meindbender vimeo page)
and here's a quick look at the rig for the creatures

Rigging Duplicator - Meindbender from Paul Hellard on Vimeo.

I have to thank Boaz Maori for the links....

3D Ground Cover Modeling in 3D Studio Max

a very cool tutorial about dispersing leaves, stones etc for architecture rendering, written by: Christopher Kowal (blowback)

Interactive Fractured System Tutorial - 3dsmax 2009

Interactive Fractured System Tutorial - 3dsmax 2009 720p from Dreamie on Vimeo.

Very cool tutorial by a friend, it's a simple rig but the look is great, and this shows you that simplicity is hard to come by....