Organic Modeling Video Tutorial Series

[Bogged]

i can't dl them...it just never loads

just out of curiosity, why has no one responded to this thread?

[safe05]

Hmmm...I just tried it and it seemed to work. Try right-clicking on the links and saving them to your computer. Unfortunately, the videos currently aren't setup for streaming so they have to download completely before playing. Depending on the server load and your connection speed, this could take awhile.

As for people not responding, I dunno. Plenty of views and downloads, but I hoping no news is good new. ;)

Thanks for checking them out!

[williamsburroughs]

Nice stuff. Thanks for sharing. Any chance the following piece will be uploaded?
Part 07 - Extending a Model with Primitives

Keep up the good work!

[safe05]

I hope to get to part 7 tonight and probably start with the texture painting portion too. Thanks for checking them out! :)

[ozone1979]

awesome, man..
thanks for sharing such an indepth approach.

[TheFreak]

Hey There,

These are great, just what the doctor ordered :)

Thanks for all the hard work and for sharing them for the great price of FREE

Cheers

[fossadouglasi]

Nice tutorials, the topology lines setup part especially.

I'd like to experiment with a real model and do the topology lines directly to the models face with a pen, so that the topology lines would perfectly match in both views.:D

But the question...
When you do the unwrapping with the non-smoothed mesh, how can i apply it to work on the smoothed version. What i have experienced, is that if you unwrap a mesh and add geometry to it afterwards, the whole unwrap messes up.

I did'nt watch the whole tutorial tough :) so i don't know if you only intended to show the basic principle with low-poly.
But if not, then how?

[safe05]

Thanks for the feedback, glad you like them! :)

fossa: depending on what you need to do with the UVs. Often UVs are left for the very end after all your modeling is done. What you see in the pic above is from the unwrapped lowpoly model. If you subdivide your model after you unwrap it, the UV coordinates get interpolated and averaged out for the new faces you generated.

However, if you need to add additional geometry, or move some edges around after you've setup your UVs, it get's a little trickier. First, if you're just modifying the existing edges or maybe using some of the edit tools to add a few more, then you can turn on "Perserve UVs" in the Edit Geometry rollout of EditPoly. When this is on, Max will try to preserve your UV coordinates as you add more detail to your object. Now, if you add/remove entire faces, you have to jump back into Unwrap UVW and reassign the UVs for the newly created faces.

Again, if you save your final UV work until after your modeling is done, you shouldn't run into too many problems with rogue UVs. :)

[musashidan]

cheers mate this is an excellent contribution to the community.:thumbsup:

[safe05]

Part 7 of the tutorial is now up in case anyone was looking for that one. It goes over extending the face using a primitive (a sphere) to speed up the modeling process a little. It also goes into some quick topology guidelines for making the neck. I hope to get the beginings of texture painting done this weekend. Enjoy!
Danny: Thanks! I really appreciate it. :beer:

[Stefajo]

Mhm, I can't play the movies :( There is always an error -.- What can I do?

What player do I need?

greetings

[safe05]

You'll need Quicktime 7.0.3 or higher to play the videos. If you're still having trouble viewing, try right-clicking and saving it to your computer then running it from there. Let me know if this doesn't work. :)

[astroboii]

Thanks for the tutes Eric, im currently downloading now as I type , it sounds quite good.

[chinese_lover]

http://forums.ego-farms.com/index.php
is a very good site,i just joined it,
i hope more will soon,
Chris^_^

[safe05]

Thanks! Glad you like it. I'm hoping to do a few more videos this weekend (if my voice cooperates). :)

[astroboii]

yeah its a great forum for 3d resources so everyone participate! :thumbsup:

[scorpion007]

Pretty cool tutorials. I only saw one video though. The modeling looks very clean, but they go too slow for my tastes (unless you are aiming at an audience who has no prior experience with 3ds max).

[safe05]

Thanks everyone for the support and checking them out. :)

That's one of the problems with video tutorials, there's really only one pace. :/ One of the reasons the videos go a little slower and spell everything out, even though this is an advanced topic, is for those who can't fit Max + the video on screen at the same time. I don't always succeed, but I try to avoid "click on this button to..." and do things like "under Edit Edges on the right hand side, click on the little button next to Extrude to..." :)

Thanks again all. New ones coming up soon. :)

[ToMMeK2K]

Great tutorial! It explains A LOT of things very well.
I'm looking forward to your next tutorials. :)
Keep it up! ;)

[safe05]

Thanks Tomas! Glad to hear it was helpful. If you have any suggestions for future tutorials, let me know. Happy modeling. :)

p.s. for those who checked out the series a little while back some texturing ones have been added as well as more of the 101 series.

[DJ-Studd]

That is an awesome set of videos there Eric. Many thanks for creating them and making them publicly available.

I look forward to some more! :thumbsup:

-- DJ

[safe05]

Thanks DJ! Happy to help. Hope to have some new ones soon. :beer:

[samurai jack]

man its wonderfull tutorials,great job realy

[wolverineronin]

these videos are just what i wanted.thank u

[a.payza]

I can't open the max files :sad:

What 3dsmax version do I need????

I have 3dsmax 7 but I couldn't open them

[safe05]

Thanks all for checking them out. I'm glad many of you are finding them useful. Unfortunately, the Max files were created in Max8 so they won't work in v7. Sorry. :(

[jokaguitar]

Dude this is an excellent contribution to the community very nice work and just what I have been looking for thanks a lot!!!:bounce:

[zakkk]

Hi, Im registerd so I can get these files, as I have been looking for this sort of thing for a while, but im afriad Im unable to view any of them, the links are there. but when I click on them nothing happens.. or if I right click and save target, it just saves the htm file..

Anything Im doing wrong? as Im really looking fwd to seeing these.

Many thanks
zak

[safe05]

Thanks for checking it out guys. :)

Zakk: When you just click on the link and nothing happens, Quicktime is probably buffering the file. As for the "save target as" make sure you're right clicking on the link itself. If that doesn't work, PM me with the link you're trying this on so I can take a closer look.

Cheers

E.

[cheasie]

Although I am new to 3ds max and learning rhino right now, I'll keep this for further study. Thank you for your hard work!

[FutureMarine2008]

I'm sure it's nice...but whenever I try opening the video, it takes way too long to load...I've had it going for about 10 minutes and the page doesn't load...

[safe05]

You're probably just experiencing slow bandwidth. Try right-clicking on the movie link and saving it to disk. At least you will then receive a progress bar letting you know how much time is left.

[xxxknivesxxx]

thats really nice tutorial. Thanks for sharing. İt will help a lot

[MsX]

Thanks a lot for the tutorials! :thumbsup:

[eyezac]

this is an amazing modeling tute - very nicely done! thanks a lot for it. i've just taken some pics of my head with the lines drawn in 'before' the pictures were taken (someone mentioned they wanted this) i'll post them soon.

in the meantime, sticky this!

zac

[safe05]

Thanks all. Glad you like them. Let me know if you have any questions/problems. :)

[Glacierise]

Love the site and the tuts, man! Thanks a lot! :applause:

[safe05]

My pleasure. :)

[Sixslow]

superb tutorial man

[josiah]

Wow! What a fantastic, professional resource your site and tutorials are! Thank you very much for making it all freely available! Very generous of you.

[musashidan]

Eric,your site is excellent,with a superb range of FREE tuts.Thanks a lot buddy.Your hard work and unselfish,generous attitude will help and inspire many folk.Keep em coming.:thumbsup:

[safe05]

Thanks all. I hope it does inspire others to share their knowledge as well. :)

[worldinnov]

Hello Eric,

Thanks for your tutorials video . This is give me a solution at my learning of modelisation !! :thumbsup:

I have a little question to you i would like making a mops for developp my sales marketing

here the picture of the model

http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/3935/balai12ngvisu1my9.jpg

Thanks in advance

[safe05]

While you could use many of the techniques shown in this series for the broom, I'd stick mostly with bevels, lofts, etc. (check ego-farms.com for tutorials) and then use poly modeling to get nice edges and details. Good luck with the modeling. It's a cool shape. :)

[worldinnov]

Hello

Thanks Eric for your help !! Can you recommend me a good tutorials for learning this project

Cordially

[safe05]

Sure. Have a look at my signature for a link to the 101 series which goes over the basics of learning Max. Enjoy!

[Glacierise]

Just an advice if you go on the spline based path - avoid spline optimization. You need your polys evenly spaced. I made this mistake recently, with a fountain model, and it was quite impossible to unwrap later. I had to use a procedural shader - which turned out fine, btw :D

[zglows]

thanks so much for this!!! it's awesome...

[safe05]

Looks like the video tutorials I made available to the community have been packaged and are now being sold without my knowledge. (see link below) If you have any information on who these guys are, please let me know. Sadly, if this doesn't get resolved I will be forced to close down the site and stop providing videos.




Use Google Translate:

http://www.cybermagics.com/%E7%BD%91%E4%B8%8A%E5%95%86%E5%BA%97/tabid/586/Default.aspx


Thanks

E.

[JohnVK]

That's really sad....... some people.... :sad:

I do hope you can get this resolved. Your instructional video's are truly magnificent and are of great value to the community!! I would really hope to see many more of them :thumbsup:

Anyway, I did a check on the Whois information linked to this website and came up with the following:

Please don't post personal information on this site unless it's your own and you choose to have the world know where you live. The rest of the info that you've provided is enough. Thank you.

- Kirt


This info is readily and legally available on the Internet btw. Goto http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/index.jsp, where you can enter any registered domain name to obtain owner information (unless privacy is enabled, in which case you won't be able to get the information).

Maybe this can be of some help, somehow...

Again, I do hope you can get this resolved quickly. IMHO these people should be locked up for what they're doing...

Best regards,
John

[safe05]

Thanks John,
I think we're pretty close in having this resolved. The support of the community has been great. Thanks again.

[madeofpoly]

Man this sucks big time! I am learning 3DS max right now and following the videos you have provided to the community, great work, thank you very much! i hope you get this situation resolved soon.

Luis

[JohnVK]

Thanks John,
I think we're pretty close in having this resolved. The support of the community has been great. Thanks again.

I'm very happy to hear that! On both accounts :thumbsup:



p.s. Kirt: point taken. Should have been more careful. I'm sorry, won't happen again!

[eek]

Looks like Paul's maxine is on this site too.. dont know if its legit. Say's its for Maya which is odd:

http://www.cybermagics.com/DesktopModules/Repository/MakeThumbnail.aspx?tabid=586&id=1194

[safe05]

yeah, there seems to be a lot of "borrowed" content on the site. It looks like they just grabbed a bunch of free tutorials and assets and bundled them on DVDs for people to purchase. I hope I'm wrong, but I'm seeing too many familiar images browsing through the site.

Fortunately, the issue is resolved for these videos, but if anyone else has content on there that they didn't authorize, PM me and I'll be happy to help get it taken down.

[robinmitra]

awesome !!! the most complete head creation tutorial ever seen.....thankyou very much

[safe05]

My pleasure. Glad you liked it. :)

[AwaisImran]

hI,
I am very exited to view your tutorials but unfortunately not able to download form part 01 to part 12. Even i tried to save target but not respond out of getting index.html file. I have tried to download file from Intenet explorer, mozila firefox, opera, AVANT browser and netscape but totally failed. Is there any way to download your tutorials or different server where you have uploaded files? Kindly please help me in this. I will be really greatful to you.Your friend
Awias

[safe05]

hmm...you might want to try again...server may have had problems. where are you trying to access from? (which country) You can also grab the tutorials from "www.3dtutorials.sk." they have the entire series posted now. I hope you can grab them...let me know if you still have problems.

Cheers

[AwaisImran]

:wavey: Thank you very much...!
now i can download files without having problem. Thanks again for help and sharing the tutorials.

[safe05]

Great! Glad it's working. :)

[jvlive]

Eric,

Thank you so much for your patience in doing all the tutorials! :thumbsup:

[meherzad]

hey. thanks a lot buddy for this set of tutorials. i have always been looking for a tutorial which would teach at this slow pace. its excellent. i know many people have already asked for this but if possible can you please also include or direct me to a wireframe rendering tutorial for max. the type of wireframe renders which are shown on this site by others.

Thanks again.... your doing a great job....

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