“Slither”
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“Slither”

on Aug 22nd 2011 with 13 comments
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Final Product What You'll Be Creating

In this truly unique 3D Studio Max tutorial, author Chandan Kumar will guide you through the process of creating a scene inspired by the movie “Slither”. Aimed at beginners, this project will give users an introduction to basic modeling, rigging and animation techniques and provide a great starting point for those interested in creating there own animations in 3D Studio Max. Chandan will also discuss animation re-timing by offsetting Keyframes, as well as using 3ds Max’s Hair & fur plugin.

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Chandan Kumar is chandank13 on 3docean
 
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My name is Chandan Kumar and I am a CG and VFX artist/trainer from India.  

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  • http://www.vfxrider.com Chandan Kumar
    Author

    This is the the day we are celebrating the B-Day of our Loard Krishna here in India as Janmashtmi. This is the day we are celebrating the B-Day of ENVATO too. And on such a great day my this tutorial has been released. Happy learning ahead!

  • http://cg.tutsplus.com/tutorials/autodesk-3d-studio-max/slither/ tasis

    It’s a very nice tut with animation.These tuts are missing from this site

  • http://www.cgmotionbox.com CGMOTIONOBX

    Thanks For this Nice Tut :)

  • Subhash

    Hey Chandan,

    Happy Janmashtami! Thanks for the tutorial it introduced me to skinning and morphing.
    I have a query though, while animating, would it not be easier to use the curve editor to copy the keys across the timeline than doing it manually? Other interesting option would be to use Pflow and see an army of Slithers attack :) Thanks again! Best Wishes.

    • http://www.vfxrider.com Chandan Kumar
      Author

      Thanks Subhash to like the tutorial.
      Using Curve Editor is a nice thing, but somehow I made this tutorial like this that even a fresher could use it. Using PF Source is also a good thing if you want to show a heavy crowd of the “slithers”. I will definitely incorporate all these thing in some other tutorial with another eye catching example. Thanks for the idea though ;) .

  • Sanketh

    Hey candan..,

    Happy Janmashtami to u also…

    Nice tutorialsagain..:)

    Thanks a lot..:)

    Cheerss….

  • Patrick

    never mind thanks though

  • Spencer

    Haven’t done the tutorial yet, but it looks great. We definitely need more 3ds max rigging tutorials around…

    One point though – it looks like you have some serious GI flicker problems in the render. You might want to fix that…

    - Spencer

    • http://www.vfxrider.com Chandan Kumar
      Author

      Thanks.
      Well this is not GI problem. This is due to the low quality of “Shadow” settings and by default “anti aliasing”,”filter” etc. Definitely it could be enhanced if you want to see the best output. But for a tutorial, I didn’t go in too deep of rendering settings. Well you can wait for my next tutorial which will show a tip to enhance rendering quality. Thanks.

      • Spencer

        Fair enough – I’ll look out for the tutorial. I’ve found that you can always learn more about rendering in 3DS Max!

        - Spencer

  • Thyago Hills

    LOL” That’s great! It introduces me in the animation too, and I loved it!

    Thank you so much for doing this.

    Happy Janmashtami to you either.

    Keep doing your good stuff.

    Regards.

  • Hooper

    Been using max for over 11 years and I have to say I LOVE Kumars tutorials!
    I always pick up a little trick watching his videos.
    Kumar: Keep making tutorials!!!!!!!!!!

  • raju

    excellent work! god bless you. i am also from INDIA !!!!!!!!!!