Ellery shared some great knowledge regarding image based lighting and a cool technique to cut down on render time while still getting high quality gi and reflections.

Tags :Global Illumination, HDRI, rendering

Our first shader tree meeting/workshop where we exchanged tips,tricks and answered questions. Zeller dropped by to demonstrate group masks and answer questions. This is the first of a few meetings to “demystify” the controversial shader tree.

Tags :group masks, shader tree

Great webinar featuring Stephane Payette from Montreal. Stephane presents his tips, tricks and workflows on the modeling of his famous “Montreal House”. Stephane does a spectacular presentation and demonstrates some tricks that even a lot of the seasoned pros didn’t know!!! Watch for his tricks using instances!!! Bet you didn’t know that one!!!

Tags :instances, montreal house, stephane payette

Chris covered the topic of rigging a unicycle in modo. He also discussed using weight maps and rigging and how, at least in modo 401, it’s not necessarily a great way to go.

Unicycle

Tags :chris hague, rigging

Henning and Warner McGee had some fun doodling for us in this webinar.  In fact one of the doodles has kicked off a very cool community challenge on the luxology forums.

Tags :henning, warner mcgee

On June 5th Matthias Zeller answered questions regarding animation and using MDD files with modo. Greg Maleck also joined in for a bit to show his MDD plugin for Messiah.

Tags :animation, mdd, zeller

During this meeting Mike James from Anchorage, Alaska gave us some insight into how he approaches modeling his popular aircraft models.   He’s got some tutorials available on his site that you can check out here.  Jim Berton also showed how he uses Neil Hayes nifty CadBuddy script to precisely scale items in your scene.

Tags :aircraft, cadbuddy

We had a great meeting this weekend where people came with questions and we opened it up to anyone who thought they had the answer or a bit of advice.

Tags :candy wrapper, stencil, transparency

Ryan Drue from Luxology joined us on April 17th to give us a run down of Luxology’s new kit, HDRE. Check it out below.

Tags :HDRE, Ryan Drue

Check out the video below to get some tips and tricks on using ZBrush and modo together.  Thanks Henning for all of the info and we’re looking forward to another one!

Tags :modo, pipeline, workflow, zbrush