This week’s premium content comes to us from Cgtuts+ regular Chandan Kumar. Chandan has put together another outstanding collection of high resolution rusty metal textures, ideal for adding a little grit to your next project. These textures are available exclusively to our Tuts+ Premium members, so Log in to your Premium account or Join Now to download!
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Each month, we bring together a selection of the best tutorials and articles from across the whole Tuts+ network. Whether you’d like to read the top posts from your favorite site, or would like to start learning something completely new, this is the best place to start!
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With our work in Cinema 4D now complete, we’ll begin part two by moving into After Effects, where we’ll import our rendered image sequence and look at using some simple, yet very powerful techniques for compositing 3D renders to make our final piece look great. Log in or Join Now to get started!
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Once again Casper van Pomeren is back with another part of his massive video game cinematics roundup. Part 3 features some of the most legendary cinematics around, including Star Wars: The Old Republic, Starcraft 2 and Portal 2, and that’s just the start!….
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In this new two part Tuts+ Premium tutorial, author Stefan Surmabojov will cover a basic workflow for creating a bumper animation using the ESPN logo. In the first part we’ll create the logo in Cinema 4D, add materials and reflections and then animate the letters coming together to form the text. Finally we’ll finish off part one by rendering the animation out in Cinema 4D.
In Part 2 we’ll move into After Effects, where we’ll import our rendered image sequence, and look at using some simple, yet very powerful techniques for compositing 3D renders to make our final piece look great. Log in or Join Now to get started!
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Are you looking to start your new year with a fresh set of prints to help promote your design business? Today, our friends at UPrinting are kicking off 2012 by giving away business cards, posters, or postcards to 36 lucky Tuts+ readers. To enter, all you have to do is submit your entry using the form below and select which prize you would prefer.
Update: The winners for this giveaway have been selected. Thanks to everyone who participated.
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Back in April we published a collection of 25 Graffiti Tag textures from Stefan Surmabojov, and today we’re bringing you another awesome set. Volume #2 contains 78 new unique Graffiti tag textures in JPG, AI and ABR formats, making them ready for use in your next project! Log in to your Premium account or Join Now to download!
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This Tuts+ Premium tutorial series covers a variety of basic techniques for both creating and projecting matte paintings using Photoshop, Maya and Nuke. In this third part of the Digital Matte Painting and Projection Basics tutorial, we’ll start importing the matte painting we created in the first two parts to Maya. Then build our projection geometry and animation camera, once we have this setup we’ll export everything to Nuke for the final stage of the camera projection.
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It’s been awhile, but we’re back with another quiz and giving you a chance to once again test your knowledge. This time the quiz features eleven basic questions aimed at users who are new to CG. So if you’re a more experienced cg artist you may find the questions a little easy, but what the hell take it anyway! Will you succeed? Will you be victorious? We don’t know, but find out!
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We’re now on Vimeo! Sure we’re a little late to the party, but feel free to head over and join the Cgtuts+ Vimeo group. As well as posting the latest tutorial previews, we’re also giving you a place to show off your Cg skills. Have you followed one of our tutorials to an awesome result and want everyone to see? Well then show off your cg wizardry by posting your video on our page and bask in the glory of your accomplishments.
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