The Gallery

The best digital art from the CG community

Technlque focus

Incredible 3D artists take us behind their artwork

Technlque focus

Incredible 3D artists take us behind their artwork

TURNING HAWKINS UPSIDE DOWN

Trevor Hogg gets entangled with the visual effects created by Scanline VFX for Season 4 of Stranger Things

MAKING A REAL BOY

MPC explores what it took to rework a classic Disney animated film in the digital realm

LEARN TO CREATE CHARACTER-DRIVEN IMAGES IN BLENDER

Practical tips and tutorials from pro artists to improve your CG skills

CREATE HIGH-END MOTION GRAPHICS

Discover how to produce impressive 3D motion graphics with director and designer JM Blay

GENERATE A PROCEDURAL MAZE IN HOUDINI

Adapting the disjoint data set algorithm and VEX

HOW DO YOU ORGANISE SCENES IN NOMAD SCULPT?

Practical tips and tutorials from pro artists to improve your CG skills

HOW CAN I ADD VOLUMETRIC LIGHTING TO MY SCENE IN BLENDER?

This classroom scene is perfect for volumetric lighting,

STEP BY STEP CREATE VOLUMETRIC LIGHTING EFFECTS

01 SET UP YOUR SCENE Volumetric effects are

HOW DO I USE CRYPTOMATTE PASSES IN NUKE?

Mike Griggs replies It is common to accidentally

STEP BY STEP WORK WITH NUKE’S CRYPTOMATTE NODE

01 GET THE FILES INTO NUKE This tutorial

WHAT’S THE “MAGIC NUMBER” ERROR I GET WITH MY SCRIPTS?

Antony Ward replies There’s nothing more frustrating than

HOW CAN I CREATE ASPHALT MATERIAL USING SUBSTANCE DESIGNER?

Pietro Chiovaro replies I will show you my

What is the future of 3D visualisation?

We explore the increasing popularity of game engines for visualising real and virtual worlds

MultiScatter

PRICE £170/$200 | COMPANY iCube 3D | WEBSITE icube3d.com/multiscatter.html

Forester

PRICE £400/$460 | COMPANY 3DQUAKERS | WEBSITE www.3dquakers.com/forester-for-cinema-4d

Chaos Scatter

PRICE V-Ray with Scatter: £358.80 /annually Corona with Scatter: £240 /annually | COMPANY Chaos | WEBSITE www.chaos.com

Forest

PRICE £234/$330 annually | COMPANY iToo Software | WEBSITE www.itoosoft.com/forestpack

CONCLUSION

There are a plethora of scattering tools available

SCATTERING TOOLS

The scattering of objects has long been an essential requirement for many 3D artists. We put some of the market leaders through their paces

Arnold 7.1

AUTHOR PROFILE Paul Hatton After graduating with a

Gaea 1.3

FEATURES Combine node for merging terrain Wizard node

Helium 3D Motion Design Plugin

FEATURES Import 3D models Volume render 3D

Cycles X

FEATURES Completely reworked architecture Vastly improved rendering times

FStormRender 1.5

FEATURES FStorm Scatter Scene converter from V-Ray, Corona