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free video tutorials

All video tutorials I've contributed to can be found on My YouTube Channel, along with a few samples from the DTE v3 book which I've added as freebies. Keep checking back and subscribe to the channel and my Facebook page as I'll be updating those considerably more than this page from now on. Here's a sample.

Currently (to date) there are around 14 video tutorials on YouTube which totals around six hours of content. Don't forget to subscribe for additional updates and also let me know if there's any specific ones you'd like to see in the future...

free articles

A number of tips, tricks, techniques, answers to questions and tutorials I have written over the past few years for various publications. This list will grow, expand and possibly be modified over time, so check back occasionally! The text contained within is un-modified from the the day it was written and may be slightly different from the text in the publications, due to editing for space, terminology or daft schpelling mishtakes.

Copyright / Legal bumph: All content is copyrighted and may not be redistributed without expressed permission in writing. Articles and resources (3ds max files, zip files contained on this site etc) may not be re-edited, translated and/or published elsewhere or in any other medium or format without the author's permission.

Many thanks to Cris over at 3D-Palace.com for hosting these tutorials!! My bandwidth has got higher and higher every year and my hosting company threatened to shut the site down as I was well over my monthly allocation (which went in about a couple of days!), but Cris came to the rescue and provided me with space to drop these articles and assets on his server! Many thanks mate - all you lot should jump over there forthwith and have a butchers at the ace tutorials he's got!

Deconstructing the Elements with 3ds max 6 - Sample Tutorial - Grasses (39Mb zip file including reference material & PDF)

Car Modelling Tips			Automatic Shield Generator
Murk			Microscopic Hair
Watery Paint Splats			Faked SSS
Camera Shake & Grips			CD Material
Automatic Geometry Optimisation			Mosaic Cards
Chalk Line Material			Magic Dust
Dynamic Atmosphere			Soft Drink (Cola) Material
Stone Structure			Cut Glass Modelling
Working With Large Bitmaps			Single Bitmap Materials
Tyre Tracks in Mud			Brushed / Lathed Metal
Wrapping Vine			Tinfoil material
Starfield (Nebula 1/2)			Nebula 2/2
Oil Slick			Automatic Engine Firing
Timelapse Construction			PFlow Object "Construction"
Watercolour Effect			Crash Landing
Splat Gun			Refraction Colours
Faked Sub Surface Scattering			Photoshop CS Tips
Growing Plants			Feedback Effect
Cityscape			Terracotta Material
Sun 1/2			Sun 2/2
Tyre Tread			Refractive Caustics
Engineering Material (cross- hatching)			Gaseous Fire
Pin Art			Reflective Caustics
Raindrop Ripples			Snowy Terrain
Galaxy			Dissolving Planet
Moonlight			Fish-Eye Lens
Entering Atmosphere			Football
Stream			Terrain
Pearlescent Spray Paint			Stormy Sea Motion
Blending Landscapes Into the Horizon			Electron Microscope
Scene Construction Effect			Earth Planet Material
Non Photorealistic Rendering (NPR)			Eyelid Modelling and Animation
Escalator Steps			Global Illumination
Automatic Particle Explosion Timing			Skydome Bitmap Animation
Space Clouds			Bullet Time
Cellshader			Volumetric smoke
Scattering Objects Over a Sphere			50 Ways to Work Faster in 3ds max

free tutorials (descriptive content plus large amount of steps to reproduce)

Ice Comet Fragmentation
School of Fish (Crowd Control)			Blood Spatter
Canyon			Volumetric Style Clouds
MPV Cellshade			Colliding Asteroids
Bot			When Worlds Collide
Logo Tutorial for Plasma (originally hosted on Cre@te Online's Site before magazine retirement)			Plasma Plane
Perfect Stormy Wave

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