Model, Paint, and Animate a Realistically Stylised Eye In 3ds Max – Day 1

on Jul 3rd 2009 with 25 comments
Tutorial Details
This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series Realistically Stylised Eye In 3ds Max

This is a multiple part video tutorial on how to create simple, yet effective, 3d eyes that can be used in either CG illustrations, or animations. This series of tutorials will cover all of the steps that are necessary, from modeling and unwrapping, to texturing, to rigging, and eventually animating the eye.

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The software that will be used are 3ds Max and Photoshop, but these principles can be applied to any other 3d modeling and painting packages.

Contents

  • 1. Creating the Model: 3ds Max.
  • 2. Creating the UVs and Texture 1: 3ds Max and Photoshop.
  • 3. Creating the UVs and Texture 2: 3ds Max and Photoshop.

1. Modeling the Eye

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2. Creating the UVs and Texture 1

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3. Creating the UVs and Texture 2

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My name is Fábio M. Silva and I am a 23 year old artist who lives in Portugal. I've had a passion for CG ever since I first discovered it while watching the making of Jurassic Park. Since that day, Ive tried to dive in into this fascinating world of computer graphics, and so far, it has been a very enjoyable ride.  

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  • brepan

    cooool :D

  • http://noisejunkies.net Rafael Guerra

    Portuguese: Bom trabalho, pena que eu nao uso max.
    English: Awesome tut, shame its for max.

  • Dj

    @fabio… There is no other way than a video tutorial that this type of info could be given. But, sorry, for me this was very difficult to understand and not at all clear.

    You apparently edited your video – did you speed it up as well? It seemed as though you waved the cursor around alot. Steps were retraced, windows opened and closed without explanation. Even at full screen it was impossible for me to follow. You must explain your steps better.

  • http://www.dsaportfolio.com.br/ Diego SA

    Very cool, but I miss some more visible veins on the eyes’ corner. The rest is perfect! Como diriam aqui no Brasil como gíria para “você é muito bom”: você é foda!!!

    • http://noisejunkies.net Rafael Guerra

      hahahaha…porra, ainda bem que os gringos nao falam portugues.

  • Zinogg

    thanx Fabio
    I really appreciate the effort and time for making these tutorials it’s big help for me i hope to see more of them especially in the “face part” it’s for me the most difficult part so far

  • http://www.postingvendor.com reece

    very real and very nice!
    great job

  • blenderman

    I like the Look. In real Life, between Irisl and eyeball is never a hard edge.

  • http://deleted 3d

    very cool dude nice one good stuff thumbs up mate

  • prateek mishra

    very good and cool work

  • Mortimerie

    Thank you for the tutorial!

    Just a quick note on other methods of achieving a darker iris outline:
    1. double clicking on a layer to open its’ layer style tab and choosing gradient overlay, then changing the mode to radial.
    2. in the same tab satin is also usable, but you have to make sure the ‘invert’ box is unchecked and you may also play around with the ‘contour’ curve a bit.
    3. its also achievable using masks and Im sure there are many other ways since Photoshop is such a versatile program, but the two mentioned above would work pretty quick here. (this is only based on my humble understanding of PS, Im not an expert by any means)

    Cheers!

  • Jaques

    Dude… Freaking helped me ALOT.. im busy trying to make a face but its SOOO hard… If you got any tutorials on how to do the mouth and nose please let me know.. Im Struggling.. been using max for a year. Got the basics… But this stuff is still i little hard..

  • http://marcanino marcanino

    muy bueno eres una persona con una imaginacion super este es mi correo
    egipto300hsi@hotmail.com

  • 3desiner

    great tutorial and very important for beginers
    this is amazing job

  • chicheckchi

    dear friend
    for first step lesson in3d
    I want pease

  • baby

    hi i am from ethiopia ,africa
    i am 12 years old
    and your tutorials are ggggggggg

  • cheshta

    its cool awsum best of luck dude

  • Aushdhish Dwivedi

    very very very very nice.

  • http://www.plagiarism.org/ Concerned Artist

    I must say great tutorial
    unfortunately i have 3 comments that if you follow to the letter, will enable you to stay with us longer.

    first thing is first. take down this tutorial, and any other you plagiarized. you are doing a voice over another tutorial, that is not yours. be it as it may you seem to be a good animation artist, you dont know the capabilities of audio and video. enbedded in your voice over i can still hear the original authors voice. and i know his name.
    once again you should take this tutorial down and at least have the decency to make it yourself. i apologize to your viewers. sadly, you cant alter it again because you posted the videos for download as i have a copy of the plagiarized contents as well as many others.
    do yourself a favor and delete the tutorial, and any others you plagiarized. i already have a complete copy of all your videos and will be analizing them thouroughly for similar unlawful acts and trust me. if i see the tutorials in 2 weeks after this post. i will contact the true authors and depending on their prerrogative, you might have multiple lawsuits on your hands

    once again i apologize to your viewers but this isnt the right way to gain page views

    • http://kaleb-3d.com Kaleb Aylsworth

      First, we at CGTuts+ (and Envato) take plagiarism extremely seriously, and have a zero tolerance policy regarding plagiarized material.
      Secondly, I would like to make it clear that all of the tutorials on this site are commissioned directly from the individual authors, and as it clearly states our policy against plagiarism in the brief that we require every author to read and agree to before submitting, any evidence of plagiarism on this site (if said evidence does exist) is solely the fault of the author, and not of CGTuts+.
      Lastly, if anyone can prove categorically that one of our tutorials has been plagiarized, we will take it down immediately and notify the authors of the offense.

      That being said, the accusation you have made is a serious one, and as we give all of our authors the benefit of the doubt, I must ask you to substantiate your claim by providing links to the tutorials that this, and any others, are supposedly plagiarized from, or at least provide some evidence at all, before I will consider removing any tutorials.

  • WOOO

    THANKS MAN!

  • mohammed sariful islam

    thanks . every commend very nice. i don’t have any language to write. but i want to say it is very effective tutorials.

  • Fábio M. Silva
    Author

    Sorry to disappoint you “Concert Artist” but there is no plagiarism involved in my tutorials. since I am their true author. If you know someone who use them as their own, in that case they have plagiarized me. Bfore you jumped the gun and started acusing me of this or that, you shouldve taken consideration that the video i did is even using a model i did for artwork ive done in the past, and since i havent shared this model anywhere or with anyone, the only way someone could’ve gained acess to it is by stealing me, which i really don’t believe that could happen.

    I don’t know what you intended to gain with your false claims(perhaps divulging your website?) but you won’t be able to sue me since if you contacted the true author of these tutorials series, that would be me.

    You know the authors voice in the background? Well, I certainly don’t know you, since the voice you hear is mine. Yes, even the one in the background. That happened in one of the earilier tutorials(my first video tutorials btw). it’s kinda hard to make a video and speaking in a foreign language, so what i did was record my voice while i did the tutorial, and then record a second pass while i was listening to it with headphones(my headphones arent very good supressing sound, so that’s why you hear my voice very low).

    Hope that has clarified things, and instead of hiding throught anonomity like you did and making false acusations, you should give me your apoligies since you tried to tarnish my good name.

    • http://kaleb-3d.com Kaleb Aylsworth

      Yes, an apology is most definitely in order since “Concerned Artist” was not able to substantiate this serious accusation in any way, thereby proving that his claims were premature and false. Furthermore, ss the CGTuts+ Editor I have investigated this claim extensively, and it is my final position that Fabio M. Silva is the true originator of this tutorial, and any others that he has created for CGTuts+, and I urge any and all readers to disregard this accusation as false so that they may enjoy Fabio’s excellent tutorials to their full potential.

  • Cexar

    very nice!