Check out my Gnomon Workshop DVD: Hard Surface Shading And Texturing With Neil Blevins "Neil introduces his pipeline for shading and texturing hard surface models. The pipeline can be used for any highres models, such as models for photoreal fx work, animated feature films, ride films or videogame cinematics. In Part 1, he discusses reference gathering, how to make a visual details list, and common shaders. Then he outlines all of the major methods for placing patterns on your surface, their advantages and disadvantages, and ways of creating patterns, including procedurals, photo manipulation, and hand painting. He breaks up the lecture with practical demonstrations in Adobe photoshop and 3dstudio max using the Scanline, Brazil and mentalray renderers, and stresses how the theory can be applicable to your 3d application and renderer of choice. In Part 2, he uses the theory and pipeline from Part 1 to shade and texture a 2000+ object robot character and simple environment using 3ds Max, Photoshop and Brazil. With a focus on texturing thousands of objects fast and efficiently and theory that is useful in any 3d app or renderer, this intermediate level course is sure to add many new tricks to your personal arsenal." Contains over 5.5 hours of content

Theory And Techniques Short lessons that outline a technique, tip or trick, or provide other theory useful in CG.

Art Theory Areas Of Visual Detail, Areas Of Visual Rest A Study In Greens, Variety in Your Colors Clumping or Grouping Contrasts In Composition Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Shapes Art Philosophy Starting Over From Scratch (Every Year) Warning: The Tool May Try And Dictate The Design Lighting Ambient Occlusion Enhancing Bumps Through Rake Lighting Projector Lights, Gobos for a Headlight and a Forest Canopy Overbright Cards In Reflections Compositing Faking Bokeh Specular Bloom What Is Instagram Really Doing To My Image? Modeling Banging Up Your Geometry Massively Instance Geometry With Proxy Objects Modeling Using The 3DSMax Modifier Stack Non Linear Displacement In 3dsmax Piles Of Rubble Pixar's OpenSubdiv Initiative, And How It Can Help You Replacing Scatter With PFlow Rounding The Edges, Chamfers And Fillets Tentacles and Chains Using Path Deform Wirebundler Sculpting Common Zbrush Sculpting Brushes In Mudbox Converting A Mudbox Model To 3DSMax Vector Displacement Map Stamps In Mudbox Shaders Anisotropic Highlights Anisotropic Reflections Metals and Reflections Translucency and Sub-Surface Scattering Pattern Placement (UV Mapping, Projections and Ptex) General Patterns Ambient Occlusion Rust Blended Box Mapping Tiling A Map On a Ground Plane Worn Edges Using A Distorted Vertex Map Specific Patterns Blended Cube Projection Mapping Complex Shapes Using Multiple Map Channels Multiple UV Tiles Pelt Mapping Texturing For Extreme Zooms All Patterns Ptex Ptex Use In Mudbox 2013 Pattern Creation Procedurals Fractal Noise Procedural Noise Painting & Photo Manip Additive Mode In Photoshop Changing A Photoshop Layer's Color To A Different Color While Keeping Transparency Converting A Grayscale Image To Black On Transparent Cropping An Image That's Off The Canvas Removing Brightness Variation To Make Tileable Textures Offset Filter To Make Tileable Textures Spun Pattern Materials Brushed Metal Material Chrome Material Chipped Paint Material Complex Organic Materials Using Falloff Dust Material Flat Metallic Surfaces Glass Material Glazed Pottery Material Gold Material Leather Material Microscope Materials Rubber Material Satin Material Sparkling Snow Material Tiled Floor Material Toon Material Using Falloff Maps Towels, Carpet Or Grass Material Using Displacement Wet Looking Materials Xray Material 2D Painting Glows That Look Really Hot Painting Starship Panels In Photoshop Photoshop CS6, 6 New Useful Features Tree Brush In Photoshop Rendering Antialiasing of Bump Maps Using Brazil A White Plane That Fades Into A White Background Technical Reducing Memory Usage To Render A Memory Hungry Scene Why Is My File Crashing? A Short Essay On Reporting and Solving Bugs and Crashing Files

Practical Application Watch me use the theory above and apply them to larger projects.

Compositing Layer Breakdowns Layers Breakdown: Earth Dweller Layers Breakdown: Fortress II Layers Breakdown: Reaper IX Shading And Texturing Complex Shaders Using Procedurals, The Green Tongue Hard Surface Shading And Texturing (Gnomon DVD) Traditional Texture Painting Traditional Texture Painting: Ghost Hunter Bertie MK3

Lectures

(07.29.03) Oregon3d Brazil Class 2003 (07.30.03) Siggraph 2003 Discreet Booth Brazil Talk (08.13.08) Autodesk Master Class, Shading Talk 2008 (05.28.09) "The Sets Of Wall-e: Trash Planet" End User Event 2009 in Utrecht (05.29.09) "Shading And Texturing Hard Surface Models" End User Event 2009 in Utrecht

Books

	I contributed one chapter to "Digital Art Masters Vol 3" (Pages 218-221) Mouths To Feed III In this article I discuss how I went about creating the image, including reference material, early modeling WIPs and various modeling / photoshop tips and tricks. Check it out at Amazon.com
	I contributed 3 chapters to "3DStudio Max 3 Magic". The chapters are... (4) Mixing Maps To Create Complex Materials (6) Lighting Effects: Rim Lighting and Diffuse Glows (9) Shaders And Highlights Other authors in the book include Brandon Davis, Eni Oken, etc. Check it out at Amazon.com
	For "Inside 3dsmax4" I did one chapter... (22) Scripting In A Production Environment This tutorial discusses how to create complex scripts, as well as tips for approaching writing a script, how to organize your ideas, etc. The rest of the book deals with how to light, model, etc from real production professionals in the film and game industry.  Other authors in the book include Kim Lee, Brandon Davis, Ian Christie, etc. Check it out at Amazon.com