Houdini 18.5

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The art of the environment

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The best digital art from the CG community

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ARTIST Alex Trevino SOFTWARE Blender, Photoshop, Affinity Designer

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ARTIST Robert Farrand SOFTWARE Blender, Marvelous Designer, Substance

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ARTIST Gerard Kravchuk SOFTWARE ZBrush, Marvelous Designer, KeyShot,

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ARTIST Michael Mao SOFTWARE ZBrush, Arnold, Substance Painter

PORTRAIT OF CHRISTOPHER LLOYD

YEAR CREATED 2020 SOFTWARE ZBrush, Maya, Arnold 5, Photoshop

Technique focus

Incredible 3D artists take us behind their artwork

Technique focus

Incredible 3D artists take us behind their artwork

Technique focus

Incredible 3D artists take us behind their artwork

The art of ENVIRONMENTS

3D World gathers masters of CG environment work to discuss what they do and how they do it

RUNNING WITH THE WOLVES

Trevor Hogg has a transformational encounter with Cartoon Saloon, which concludes its Irish folklore trilogy with the release of Wolfwalkers…

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CREATE A STEAMPUNK ICELANDIC LANDSCAPE

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

RENDER A LUXURIOUS BUILDING EXTERIOR

Learn how to set up a detailed city scene and add details to improve your photorealism

DESIGN AND CREATE A HIGH-TECH DRONE

Get inspired by nature and learn how to create a detailed insect drone design

TRANSFORM CALLIGRAPHY INTO A 3D NEON SIGN

Hussain Almossawi shows us how to turn our 2D typography into an awesome light-emitting 3D design

CREATE AN AUTUMNAL ARCHVIZ SCENE

Shayan Shamlou details how he built this cosy archviz image with a night-time forest setting using 3ds Max

HOW DO I CREATE AN OCEAN SURFACE IN CINEMA 4D?

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

HOW CAN I MAKE A COOKIE MATERIAL IN SUBSTANCE DESIGNER?

If you need to switch multiple nodes from

WHAT GRAPHICS TABLET SHOULD I GET MY TEENAGER?

The world of pen tablets is expanding every

Arran Baker

News and views from around the international CG community

Supercharge your workflows with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

We take a closer look at NVIDIA’s flagship 30-series graphics card, the GeForce RTX 3090, to see if this generational leap is one worth taking

Creature and character artist

Vladimira Strukanova takes a break from being creature artist at Ziva Dynamics to talk 3D World through her typical day

This means war

3D World discovers the secrets of DIGIC Pictures’ epic Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla cinematic trailer

Really augmenting AR

James Burrows, technical director at Immersive Studios, on how we’re sidestepping the limitations of handheld devices