Greg Brown won the contest with his killer Henning model.  Check it out here.  In this webinar he discussed his techniques and answer questions.

Tags :Greg Brown, henning, Sculpting, Skin Material

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

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

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

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

In this modo user group meeting Curt Thurston discussed one of modo’s unique features, falloffs.  Thanks to everyone who attended and thanks Curt for the great presentation!

Tags :curt thurston, falloffs

On March 6th Matthias Zellerhoff (Zeller) gave us some insight into his techniques of cloth modeling.  Check it out by watching the video below.

Tags :cloth modeling, zeller