Deep4D Tutorials

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Regarding authorship: original information on some tutorials are based on various sources, generally available on the web, etc. The objective of these pages is to facilitate learning with students, to maintain brevity and convey critical information, and are generally in the form of notation for class walk-throughs, and to explain how to do things, not to promote these pages as works of unique technical discovery.

ZBrush and Maya
Blender and Gimp

Art, design, and visualization

Color
Photoshop: Hue Saturation Brightness

Geometry and perspective
3 Basic geometric non-perspective objects with light source and shading
2 point perspective

Design concepts
Rule of 3

Drawing vehicles
Reference: Hi-res Hot Rod side view on grid
Resize hot rod with pencil on a grid
2 point Humvee
Setting up an ellipse on perspective, for wheels
Tilt wheel ellipse to align to axle

Drawing buildings
Loft a 2 point House from ortho elevations
Scan and set up your drawing for colorizing
Grid out a house in Photoshop

Colorizing for architecture
Acquiring trees
Notes on flat reflections, ground blur, etc.

Storyboarding
Download storyboard single frame word doc
Download 6-up Illustrator storyboard
Make an animatic or storyboard in Max with cameras, simple objects, and bipeds
Sample Storyboard made from Max renders
Download Word Storyboard example from Max renders

Storylines
Notes from Robert McKee's Story

Human proportions and representation
Male head side
Character sheet turn-around guide
Female anime style face extreme close-up
Female 9.5 heads
Eyes
Eyes 2
Lips

3ds Max
Model
Video training Intro to Max
Cars Links to external Car tuts Fitting car doors Buildings and interiors Simple texture standard lites interior walls Modular Level Level with extruded hallway Modeling tricks Transitioning polygonal density Rotate around a vertex Normal align Spline on a sphere Paint deformation shortcuts Sweep Transform subobjects with an aligned gizmo using a grid helper Show 3 sided faces [edges visible] Snapshot Weapons Modified Luger Handgun notes Toons Cartoony Dawg Vehicles and starships Obi-Wan Starfighter [unfinished] Organic and nature Rocks with modifers Complete terrain with skydome, light array and fog Paint a displace terrain Concepts and methods Tips on grids, aligns, etc.	Figure Super simple box man part 1 Super simple box man part 2 Super simple box man part 3 Super simple box man part 4 Super simple box man part 5 [Super simple box man's hands to come] Model simple male figure from cylinder Anatomical detailing Human Head Some screen shots of female head model process Reflection and lighting for eyes, plus tear ducts Polygonal hair Eyebrows and lashes from Hair Eyebrows from a Plane Skin texture plus lights and teeth Lighting a head and skin Reference images and sketching The eye simplified Ears Misc. notes on the head The nose Simple head from sphere with side poles Spline model head Female Anime Head Spline model notes Notes on the Chandi Spline Model Spline/surface modeling tips Spline model from spline to surface to patch Working with splines for surface modeling Render your model with Occlusion Pass AEC Windows in walls
UVW
Unwrap a brick UVW Man UVW Man - Face not mirrored	Pelt mapping a head Pelt mapping a Cloth Hood UV and Texture Cloth Hood using clone stamp from photo reference
Materials
Methods and concepts for Materials Basic Ray-trace for opaque materials PSD notes for texture artists Mask Matte/Shadow Translucency Composite maps Blend vs. Mix maps Intro to texture baking Basics of texture baking buildings Normal Mapping Organic and nature Water Surface water: raytrace and falloff Simple water Earth Terrain mapping Procedural terrain Sky and stars Easy skydome with noise gradient	Metal Wiro's 3 classic metals [1 done, 2 to go] Simplest Chrome using Max's canned material Simple Ray-trace chrome Chrome based on IOR Dirt chrome Multi-Layer car paint Rust with the clouds and difference clouds filters in photoshop Metallic reflections on a flat surface Blend to show erosion between layers Buildings Simple texture standard lites interior walls Objects Explosive crate from photographic source Head and figure Make Anime Hair in Photoshop (very simple)
Cameras
Shots Camera moves Camera and Scene transitions	Mental Ray Cameras Depth of Field Object motion blur
Lighting
Standard lights 5 light/shadow types Standard 3 point lighting setup Easy spotlight sun and light array for outdoors Photometric lights and their shadows Photometric lights and radiosity Broken up volume light	Mental Ray Final Gather Lighting setups Volume light Setting up indoor lights plus exterior daylight Indoor-outdoor final gather settings Max 9 Ambient Occlusion with Arch & Design Mats Photometric Lighting Interior and Exterior mr Sun and mr Sky together Outdoors mrArea sun Lume Sky Dome for fast model or outdoor lighting setup Using mr Area Spot Lights for soft cast shadows Soft Shadow mr Area Spot light with Lume Glow skydome Fastest lighting setup for models or outdoors: IE sun and IE Sky 3 Light and environment slot outdoor setup mrArea Lites without Mental Ray mrArea Lites and DGS
Animation
Track View Curve editor notes Curve editor overview Dope sheet overview Ball bounce with multiplier curve Image of correct ball keys for bounce Bounce a squash and stretch ball	Cartoony Eye with FFD Light saber Link constraint -- do it right
Biped, Skin, Bones, Rigging, Morpher, etc.
Skin Vertex Weight Table Morph Angle Deformer Bulge and Joint Angle Deformers Mirror Turning off Always Deform Resize a biped that already has skin Segmented character rig Trogg (with biped, armor, mouth, morpher) Squash-stretch toon eye	Biped To come -- partial walk cycle [3 poses] 5 essential keys for animation Planted Walk Cycle simplified 24 frames Footsteps notes Walk your biped T ips on walk cycle Bones Wire fingers Mirror IK Squash and stretch bones Flexible wrists and twisty arms Essential basic rig with helpers and reverse IK legs Maya style leg and foot Cartoony dog head rig
FX
Non-event Particle Effects Smoke, fire, water Fiery Blast Tips for smoke, fire, water Fire Fire with Blur Electric tendrils Space Particle Starfield Weapon fire Flak cannon Water Rain with Spray Bubble motion Explosions Volumetric explosion/smoke with instanced geometry Blow up an oil tank Pre-rendered explosions Concepts and methods Object Mutation Spawn particles Other Pixie Dust Glow and Object Motion Inheritence Atmosphere FX Volumetric fog Background fog with gradient Blend terrain to sky with a material Skydome: Dragon sky Skydome: procedural starfield	Materials for FX Cheap Pistol Flare Plasma Stream Morpher Material Smoke, fire, water Material for smoke, fire, water Water Splash and mist Smoke Very basic smoke with self-illumination Smoke with particle age Fire Make your fire glow Game decals Blood spatter Targa decal Blast mark decal Blast mark in cement decal Methods and concepts Stealth: Animate Mix values on a Blend Map Particle MBur and Particle Age Multi-sub object materials Particle Flow Overview for blobmesh Overview for Guided missile with breaking up target included Smoke with particle age and the material dynamic operator Guided missile Particle Age Particle Age with Output Map
Mental Ray
Mental Ray Photons and indoor setups Indoors single photometric area light plus skylight Paintballs Global Illumination indoors setup Global Illumination steps Diamond or Gem with Refractions	Mental Ray Materials Arch and Design Chrome Photoshop Composite with Ambient Occlusion to Fake GI Sub Surface Scattering 3 ways to make glass Lume Ocean Mental Ray Car Paint Light emitting object Displace Lume Mist, Beam, and Parti-volume for a volume spot light
Reactor
Fracture Overview Reactor crate breaking Fracture a wall into fragments Reactor notes Water Water	Cloth Fixing cloth passing through an object Draped cloth Cloth and animated rigid body Cloth and a deforming mesh Dragon wings with Delaunay advance surface approximation
Compositing and other
Video Post Useful video post procedures [more to come] Render in reverse	Application Shortcuts Max by the numbers

Audio

Setting up audio for microphone recording with SB Audigy

Frooty Loops Piano effects

Hardware input solutions:
Samson condenser Mic/USB CO1U
Lightsnake USB/XLR
Lightsnake USB/1/4"
http://www.markertek.com

Shure 7M58 Mic with XLR-to-guitar plug adapter to use with guitar amp

Links

HDRI
http://www.sachform.de/index_EN.html

3d modeling cars collection of links
Car tutorials

Level editors
Hammer from Valve [Half-Life2]
http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Category:Level_Design
Radiant [Doom3]
http://www.qeradiant.com/?data=games/doom3

Basic perspective
inside
http://www.geocities.com/~jlhagan/lessons/persp1-4.htm

outside
http://www.geocities.com/~jlhagan/lessons/pers5-9.htm

Volume Shading and color
Steven Stahlberg's cylindrical study
http://www.androidblues.com/JealousyStepbystep/jealousystep.html

Car art
http://www.khulsey.com/demo_howto_car.html
http://www.itedo.com/E/109.php
http://archive.cardesignnews.com/studio/tutorials/frye/index.html

pencil and markers
http://archive.cardesignnews.com/studio/tutorials/vx220/index.html

psd and pencil
http://www.purephotoshop.com/article/110
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/37777087/

vector
http://www.carbodydesign.com/tutorials/digital-painting-tutorials.php

traditional sketch rendering
http://www.designertechniques.com/tutorials/MikaelLugnegardTraditionalRendering01-page1.htm

pens and markers
http://speedanddesign.net/v-web/bulletin/bb/viewtopic.php?t=671

markers
http://speedanddesign.net/v-web/bulletin/bb/viewtopic.php?t=906

Tire Tread in PSD
http://www.andrews.edu/~dinsley/tire_tread_tut.html

Shading and lighting
very nice notes on shading and radiosity in psd
http://itchstudios.com/psg/art_tut.htm

Lighting, Rendering and Effects
"Faking GI" by BonarSiregar "Simulating Global/Indirect Illumination with Mental Ray" by Richard Minh Le

"Occlusion in 3DSmax 7" by Ozgur Ustundag

3d Lighting Setups: 3 Point Lighting by Jenn Downs

"Lightmapping a Level" by Kieran Belkus

"Exterior Render - Mental Ray Render" by Hao Ke La

http://67.15.36.49/team/Tutorials/vray2/vray2_1.asp

nice mental ray studio setup

http://www.simonreeves.co.uk/tutorials/studio/studiotut.htmi

http://www.simonreeves.co.uk/tutorials/lighting/lighting.htm

'The Phoenix building' and other buildings by Juan Siquier
http://www.juansiquier.com/tutoriales/phoenix/phoenix1_eng.htm

http://67.15.36.49/ffa/tutorials/project_overviews/Siquier/siquier01.asp

http://features.cgsociety.org/story_custom.php?story_id=1650&page=

Concept art
http://www.fengzhudesign.com/tutorials.html

Photosop and Illustrator
Photoshop Characters Drawing Cel Art, from pencil to digital Soft highlights on a face Damarus shades and hi-lites Compositing from Max Z-depth from Max Fog using Z-depth Environments Tablet clouds with opacity jitter on/off Perspective lines Show atmospheric depth in Photoshop	Other Beveling Panels Paint with blending modes Using a tablet Textures with blend mode Metallic Interface Disable the bevel on part of a layer Clipping paths to restrict adjustment layers Knockouts Illustrator Drawing Cel Art, from pencil to digital Damarus from felt tip drawing to PSD to AI to Flash Path tips Transparent gradients, like in PSD Bezier Practice Bezier Practice Hi-Res

Flash
Flash Access a DVD animation to trace Tips on approaching flash projects Segmented character Animate the slime ball

Director
Director Shockwave: rotate your 3D model

Digital SLR
Photography Depth of field blurring Avoiding fish eye bowing of edges

Dreamweaver and Web Sites
Gallery/Portfolio: Open Browser in New Window Transparent Flash Button ITT Test Site	Make a favicon

Unreal 2004

Unreal 2004
Terrain from a PSD height map
Bombing Run
CTF vehicles
Skybox overview
Simple skybox and fog
Importing model and texture from 3ds Max
Intro to UnrealEd
Viewing Levels
Emitters
Capture the Flag
Weapons Base
Movers [doors, elevators, etc.]
Fire
Water