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I'm a 20 year old CG freelancer from Bulgaria. I have one year of professional experience in the field of 3D animation, and I work for a small TV company. I also fill my spare time with freelance work and creating tutorials related to 3DS Max for our site http://www.tripodbg.com.
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Create a Realistic Looking Nokia 5800 in 3ds Max – Day 1

Georgi Zahariev on Jun 20th 2011 with 58 comments

Twice a month we revisit some of our reader’s favorite posts from throughout the history of Cgtuts+. Today we’re taking a look back at Georgi Zahariev’s awesome Nokia 5800 tutorial which was originally published back in October of ‘ 09, and proved to be very popular with our 3ds Max users.

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Quick Tip – Alpha Cut in 3ds Max

Georgi Zahariev on Feb 24th 2010 with 17 comments

This is a really nice method to quickly cut an alpha hole into your CG scene so you can then easily composite any image into the alpha area. This technique can be used in many different situations, and I have personally used it in TV commercials and many of my personal projects for fun. Hopefully you will find this trick useful too!

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Create a Realistic Looking Nokia 5800 in 3ds Max – Day 2

Georgi Zahariev on Nov 16th 2009 with 22 comments

In this multi-part, hard surface modeling, texturing, and rendering tutorial, you will learn how to quickly create a realistic looking Nokia 5800. The techniques shown in this tutorial can easily be applied to other 3d applications, and the methods of making the phone itself are fast, and very efficient. Though the resulting mesh will not be perfect, the final render will still look great, thus the goal of this tutorial is not to teach you how to make a perfect mesh, but to teach you a trick or two about fast and efficient modeling.

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