This step-by-step tutorial will walk you through UVW Unwrapping a hard-edged object using 3DS Max’s inbuilt tools. You’ll learn about overlapped and flipped UVs and some basic UV stitching techniques. UVW Unwrapping is not difficult at all. It is however, a time consuming and tedious task.

This 3DS Max tutorial will help you create realistic, volumetric, clouds using a Particle Flow Source (PF Source), a procedural opacity map and a 3D object. The technique is for intermediate Max users but the tutorial can be followed by beginners just as well. We’ve also attached the scene file so you can examine our results.

This tutorial will walk you through some very basic, 3DS Max box-modeling techniques. We recommend it for people just getting started with 3DS Max. You’ll be creating a pile of 3D books.

This is an introductory FumeFx tutorial in which you’ll be creating a realistic looking fireball. Fireballs are good starting points because you have to go through most of FumeFx ‘s settings to get good results. This tutorial doesn’t skip any steps and goes to great lengths to explain every value you change.

Action Scripts can be invaluable tools if you’re dealing with large amounts of images. Creating an Action Script will allow you to apply a range of modifications to an entire batch of images or even entire folders. The technique is flexible, portable and easy-to-use.

This tutorial will hold your hand while you create your first organic, gooey texture. The technique might seem complicated at first but it’s actually easy-to-follow. The finished texture can be used with the Scanline, Mental Ray or V-ray renderer.

This Photoshop tutorial will help you insert an invisible (or almost invisible) watermark in your photos or textures. It’s a primitive version of a banknote’s saturation channel watermarking. The technique is extremely simple and the tutorial should take no more than 2-3 minutes to complete.

This quick tutorial will help you composite 3DS Max ’s Depth of Field pass in Adobe Photoshop. This technique can save you a lot of time otherwise spent rendering (hours in some cases) and is actually pretty flexible.