Saejin’s Work

Awesome artist with great process tutorials on how he works!

http://saejinoh.blogspot.com/

Layers Magazine Tutorials

A great magazine with some really interesting tutorials for media artists covering Flash, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver, Painter, and many more.

http://www.layersmagazine.com/category/tutorials/

Texture Tutorials

Some interesting texturing techniques from SparkingSpot.com

Derived Bump Maps

2d Tile Rendering

Showing Damage in Textures

Multi-UV Texturing

Adaptive Orientation Shader

Detail Maps

Anti-Tiling Techniques

Mudbox 2009 Quickstart Series

Wanna learn how to use Mudbox 2009?

Check out the this series!

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/mudbox/mudbox2009/index.html

Beauty on the Bed

While this tutorial doesn’t cover the subtle nuances of building such a beautiful scene, it does go into some basic processes, involving Max and Zbrush.

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/max/beauty_bed/index.html

Maya Tutorial – Making of Varga

This is probably one of the best tutorials you could ever wish for in terms of learning from basic to advance, the workflow of creating a high detail character using normal maps, mudbox, and maya. It doesn’t cover exact modeling tips and tricks, but it does cover workflow, basic strategies, and advanced techniques to achieve high quality models.

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/maya/varga/index.html

Joan of Arc Tutorial – The grandfather of Modeling tutorials

This tutorial teaches modeling from the basics all the way to completion. It’s definitely the grandfather of tutorials and is incredibly helpful. A must read for any modeling beginner, and for modeling refresher.

http://www.3dtotal.com/ffa/tutorials/max/joanofarc/joanmenu.asp

CGArena tutorial : Making of Yuka

Excellent Photoshop tutorial on CGArena by Lukasz Szeflinski in Poland. Concentrating on photo-realistic lighting, starting with a basic sketch to color blocking, to final detailing.

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/photoshop/lukx/index.html

CGArena Tutorial : Do you want to play with me

An excellent Photoshop tutorial on CGArena done by Melanie in France. It goes through the steps from start to finish concentrating on lighting, and photoshop brushes and techniques.

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/photoshop/wannaplay/index.html

Sticker Gunk : How to Remove it Without Destroying Everything Else

You’ve all experienced it. You go to EBgames or Gamestop to buy a game, and the only copies they have are gutted, with the sticker on it. Or you go to buy a pre-owned game, which is guaranteed to have a sticker on the case. And then after you buy it, they put this giant sticker on it to seal it as proof that it hasn’t been opened (blame piracy for that one).

You take it home, and try to peel off that god-damn sticker as carefully as you can and it throws you a bomb before it can be thwarted – it tears, leaving behind a papery sticker gunk residue. You then spend the rest of the day picking at the gunk until it virtually destroys the case’s would-have-been-shiny-finish, and have also dented the insert underneath. You try applying tape to it, but it does nothing! Then the sticky parts collect dirt and eventually turn black, making your game look thoroughly used!! Maddening!!!

But! There are ways to remove it without so much as breaking a sweat! You can apply this method to DVD cases, manga, and other stickers stuck on shiny surfaces!! How?! Read on!

Alternate Mikuru

This isn’t the first time I’ve ever done fan-art. Everytime I do though, I try to represent the character in a different light, to show some variety and for people to think “what if…”. It certainly brings a bit of flavor to the picture. I decided to draw Mikuru Asahina. Mikuru is always getting abused and molested by Haruhi. She’s also completely, and ridiculously moe. So much so that I got sick and tired of it. What better way to try a fan art of Mikuru but with a completely opposite attitude for her?

Elf Girl Dancing

I love elf girls. I just like how slender and elegant they are. They are strong willed, but appear delicate. They have silky blonde hair and smooth skin. If you knew the habits of an elf, you probably wouldn’t think they were that great, but I’m just speculating… what would the habits of a forest elf be? Very animal-like? Not very becoming of the elegance they portray. But, the typical anime elf girl usually comes from mystical origins with elegance and civilized panache. The idea to paint this came to me in a flash, while chatting with a friend on a completely unrelated matter. It was then that I feverishly did a quick sketch to capture the idea.

In Depth : Elwing01

Many of you have seen this photograph, and many of you have asked “how is it done?” Here’s an in depth look at how this image was accomplished.

How I Work

I’ve decided to put up a little diary of the processes I go through in order to create a piece of art. This is not really a tutorial, as a lot of this stuff is hard to explain other than “You just gotta keep at it until you get it.” but this will give you a pretty good idea on how to approach a project. I’ll be using my Apprentice Mage painting as the example. (how fitting for a tutorial).

Using Photoshop to Create Interesting Photos

Welcome to the second part of my basic compositing tutorial. If you haven’t gone through the first tutorial yet, I suggest you do so. Otherwise you will have no idea where I’m coming from or what I am doing at this halfway point.
The purpose of this tutorial is to teach how you can use the various tools in Photoshop to bring more life to your composited image. We’ll go through things like setting mood, changing shadows and lighting, and the principles of depth using light and general photoshop filters.
As a recap of the previous tutorial, we’ve gone through the process of selecting a background that would fit our subject, (in this case, Miko is our subject) and cut out her shape using the various lasso techniques in the previous tutorial. We also did some minor adjustments using a few of Photoshop’s adjustment menus. After we were finished, we had a fairly nice and convincing composite. But it still looked a little flat and uninteresting. Let’s add a little drama.

Basic Photoshop Compositing

This tutorial assumes you know very basic photoshop skills. If you don’t know anything about Photoshop, you may have trouble following along. I will try to be as clear as possible and have images to illustrate exactly what I’m talking about where needed. This tutorial was constructed using Photoshop 7, but Photoshop CS2 and above work the same way. To see a larger image, just click on the thumbnail and a pop-up will appear. Be sure to close the pop-up before continuing.
The purpose of this tutorial is the basic construction of compositing two different subject matters together into one. For this particular example, I will be using one of my figurines and compositing her on another background.