Utah Teapot Lighting your scene using Autodesk Maya can be a tricky process. You get your lights to look just the way you want them to, ...

Mental Ray is back! 3D Render by Amaru Zeas Mental Ray is Back! NVIDIA, makers of the classic ray tracer - it used to come bundled free ...

Render by Gilles Tran - Wikimedia Commons  Rendering, as my old tutor at Escape Studios used to say, "is where everything starts ...

Pixar have recently released a number of free repeating textures from their archives - for use in 3D animation. The archive was first cre...

Pixar's Renderman, one of the leading industry software packages for rendering high quality animation images has at last been releas...

3D Droid by Kris Michalski One of the most important things to look at when choosing an animation course is to check out what other ...

How do we make beautiful renders in Maya? "Utah teapot" - Wikimedia Commons How do you make a Batch Render of your frames in M...

Standard aspect ratios: SD, HD and super HD Aspect ratios are one of the more technical aspects of our business - confusing when you don...

Modeling, texturing and lighting by Mike Swan Here at Bucks we don't just tackle animation - we also train our students to be expert...