51 Stellar 3ds Max Tutorials

Since all you Max users out there begged and pleaded so much, I have have rallied the troops and prepared an onslaught of 51 3ds Max tutorials for you! Some old, and some new, they are bound to keep you quite busy for the next week....or month for that matter....well at least until I post the next roundup down the line anyway.

Creating Lens Flares

Shoaib Khan teaches you how to create powerful lens flares using only 3ds Max.

Bullet Control

Model a gun, and use Particle Flow to control the bullets. Also, explore features like Find Target and Spawn. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3.

Exploring Mental Ray with MaxAfter.com

Explore texture mapping, lighting, and Final Gather for rendering in Mental Ray.

Creating the Wanted Bullet

Learn polygon modeling and texture mapping techniques by re-creating the detachable bullet from the movie "Wanted". Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4.

3d Multi Sub Object

Learn how to apply multiple materials to a single mesh object, through the simple, yet powerful, method of the multi sub object.

Growing 3d Boxes

Learn to create particles in 3ds Max with PF Source, and add text, blurs, and butterflies in After Effects.

Text Explosion

Learn how to create a text explosion effect, as seen in the promo for Video Copilot's "The Bullet".

DNA in 3ds Max

Learn how to model and texture some DNA, add text to your scene, and create a reflective plane.

Procedural Footprints

Make an object that leaves particles as it moves using Particle Flow, and create a mesher to affect the floor.

Reactor Pool Table

Learn how to animate a pool table scene with balls that react to one another using realistic physics. Part 1 Part 2

Turning Objects to Skittles

Create Skittles with Particle Flow, and apply multiple materials to a particle system, then composite the final animation in After Effects. Part 1 Part 2

Modeling a Tennis Racquet

Model a tennis racquet using splines and modifiers, and then texture it with Mental Ray.

3ds Max Reactor Basics

Make a car crash into a pile of bricks....nuff said.

Animating Facial Expression with Morpher

Learn to use Turbo Smooth, Morpher, and material ID's to animate facial expressions.

Creating a Clay Render

Set up materials to make a clay looking scene.

Creating a Toon Render

Learn to set up and render a toon style scene.

Radiosity Lighting

Learn how to set up and render with Radiosity Lighting.

Terminator Eye Tutorial Series

In this huge tutorial series you will use 3ds Max along with Photoshop, Syntheyes, and After Effects, to re-create the Terminator's deteriorated face effect.

New Bond Introduction

Via the Creative Cow, Michael Park shows you how to recreate the new James Bond intro using the default scanline renderer, minimal modeling, and standard materials.

Creating a Shotgun Blast

In a 2 part tutorial using 3ds Max and After Effects, you will learn how to create a realistic shotgun blast. Part 1 Part 2

HDRIs Using Vray 105 RC3 Renderer

Use HDRIs and Vray to light a castle scene.

Unwrapping and Rendering

Explore complex unwrapping and designing of pixel stretch free UV maps for texture-baking.

Making of Paragalis

Follow the workflow of modeling, sculpting, re-topologizing, optimizing UV's, normal and light map generation, and texturing.

Making of The Hole

Look at a simple way to make a very cool render using the free plugin "Greeble".

Modeling a Quad Bike

A brief walkthrough of modeling a quad bike, using some basic reference images.

Modeling a Pocket Watch

Model a realistic pocket watch, then set up the lights, and render with Fryrender using fry materials. Also learn how to work with tonemapping and layer blending controls.