April 2007

Editorial
Well, I suppose issue 20 is a miniature milestone for us; if anything it’s a reason to go for a drink after work! But, then again, do we even need a reason? 3DCreative is now constantly hitting the 150+ page total, so we are utterly exhausted and deserve a rest... but there’s no chance! I am going to over work the staff here until they drop! (That last sentence was just to test to see if they are even reading this part.)

We need you to give us as much feedback as possible in the coming months so that we can continue to provide you with as high quality a magazine as possible. For those of you who think it won’t make a lot of difference, check out the ‘Challenge’ section of this mag. This was purely in response to readers asking for competitions and challenges, but better then the odd multiple choice questions we used to give. These challenges give you the opportunity to win great prizes, whilst improving your skills, meeting other like-minded 3D’ers and generally having some fun.

We have had some great entries and already given away thousands of dollars worth of prizes. Also, the top entries get featured in this very magazine... that’s the 3D equivalent of a grammy (or at least some kind of daytime soap award anyway). Anyway, enough drivel from me. Enjoy this latest mag and we hope we give you the motivation to get involved too. Ed.

Interview
Pascal Blanche
Artist and 3D Visionary

Interview
Khalid Al Muharraqi
Working on some of the worlds biggest projects

Article
Next Gen: CrackDown
Realtime Worlds Give Us an Exclusive Insight

Article
Tower of Grantville
BUCK Studios’ Hilarious Short

Article
More Happy
Stardust Work on the New Pepsi Campaign

Tuc-Tuc
Part 4 for 3D Studio Max, Maya, C4D, LW & XSi

Tutorial
Framing a Subject
More Photography Wisdom to Assist Your 3D

Tutorial
Texturing Basics
Part 2 of our Complete Guide to Lighting

Galleries
10 of the best images from around the World

Making Of
Tiny (Battle of the Planets)
Project Overview by Chih-Han Hsu

Making Of
Knocked Out
Project Overview by Ilan Cohen

Making Of
Flower Messenger
Project Overview by Ziwen Zhang

Challenge
Stylised Animal Challenge
Camel Winners & Octopus Making Ofs

     

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