In this video tutorial by professional 3ds Max artist Laurens Corijn, you will learn the ins and outs of using splines to easily create extremely complex geometry in 3ds Max. Over 5 different methods are explored, with examples on how you can apply these techniques to your own projects too. Even if you're an experienced user, you won't want to miss out on this, as some of these methods are not very well known!
Using Splines to Quickly Create Highly Complex Geometry in 3ds Max
Nov 10th in 3D Art, Autodesk 3Ds Max by Laurens Corijn
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( ADD YOURS )Nysuatro November 10th
You never stop to impress héhé. When I have the time I will look the whole tutorial. But you know, school comes first
( )nour el-islam November 10th
very important modeling tut , thank you very much i give you 9/10. you are cool man !!!
( )Stefan Frank November 10th
That was a good beginner tutorial. Very well explained. Hope to see some advanced Nurbs Modelling from you. Keep on the good stuff!
( )Adam Whitcroft November 10th
thanks for the rad tutorial – never knew about the sweep feature, man thats awesome!
*psst* and for future reference you pronounce lathe as if it were spelled like “laythe”
cheerios
( )Laurens November 11th
Finally I know how to pronounce it! Very difficult word, none of my coworkersknew how to say it as well, result is all our students don’t know either :p Thanks dude, and thanks to the rest for the nice comments!
( )Aaron November 10th
Thanks v much, awesome tutorial, well explained as always, look forward to more
( )samBrown November 11th
excellent tutorial, very helpful; keep it up
( )Jleon November 11th
What an amazing tut, is quite useful the bevel along path thing, thank u
( )Omid November 12th
believe me, you are awesome!
( )Tazm November 12th
Thanks for that. Impressed at the bevel profile stuff.. always good watching these for inspiration for a modeller just starting out and trying to learn skills
( )gt November 12th
Does the mesh always have to be that dense?
( )Laurens November 13th
No, for everything splines allow you a lot of control over the density. You can use one Spline object to generate both a high and lowpoly version even.
( )As for the frag grenade at the end: it’s not really an example of the cleanest or best mesh, but is intended to serve more as an illustration of the power of splines.. It’s probably the fastest way to create it, but not the cleanest and it needs a lot of polygons to look good.
Opus November 13th
I extremely love your tutorial!! Thank You Laurens!! very helpful.
( )MY November 13th
LINE POWER!!!
( )Joao - From Rio de Janeiro November 13th
tks for this great tutorial !
( )Dean November 13th
Great work,Thanks
( )LosPescados November 14th
I never knew the power of splines!
When you showed it in class I was amased,
but after seeing this video I’m simply stunned!
Another great video again! Loved watching it!
( )Christian Mendoza November 14th
Dude you are amazing, an the tutorials to.
Thanks for share
( )Boblenain November 16th
Really interesting. It’s kinda back to basics
( )Reminds me of an old tutorial when I modeled my first shapes. I should have kept it in mind!
Hristo Velev November 16th
Nice tut, I’m no noob but I still learned a few things. Another way to use splines is with surfaces, that’s cool too.
( )CIDAE November 17th
VERY COOL, IT HELPED ME A LOT. THANX LAURENS
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