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Modeling Interstate / Highway Road Signs
Learn how to model interstate / highway road signs using 3ds max.

C4D Pocketwatch Tutorial
Beginner to intermediate, seventeen page PDF, With setup and all maps and materials, the splines are in jpg format. The tutorial covers, Lathe, deformation, connect objects, working with splines, points,and hypernerbs objects, also boole, sweep nerbs, and extrude, and much more.

Realistic Afterburn Explosion
This tutorial shows how to use Sitni Sati Afterburn to create realistic explosions inside 3d studio max.

Morphing (Part 1 of Series)
This tutorial covers the morph modifier and how to use it to animate the surface of objects. Usefull for character facial animation.

Sliders + Wiring (Part 2 of Series)
This section of the 2 part tutorial covers how to link animatable properties up to visual sliders and use mathematical calculations to determine the end result.

Ocean Water in 3ds max
Learn how to create very realistic ocean water and waves in 3d studio max.

Highly polished wood in 3ds max
This tutorial will show you how to get a highly polished wood texture for your models.

Glass material in 3ds max
Learn how to create a realistic glass material in 3ds max.

X-ray material in 3ds max
This tutorial will show you how to create an x-ray material in 3ds max. Written in v3, it should work in most any version of max.

Compositing Easter Island in 3ds max
How to make a composite animation with a 2D background plate.

Simple Rubics Cube
A very easy and simple 3dsmax modeling tutorial on how to create a rubics cube.

The Pier Shot
What we want is to make a ship crash into the pier, make wood splinters fly and stuff break.

Blow up a 2D house
Learn how to blow up a 2D house in 3ds max.

Advanced Smoke
Learn how to create realistic smoke in 3ds max without any additional plugins.

Camera Matching
This tutorial essentially covers creating all the geometry that's in a photo and matching up the camera to the photo along with using camera map and other useful max tools to make a complex 3D scene.

Cel Shader
Easy way to get a comic book look without any plugins.

Cel Shader 2
Another way to get a comic book look, this time with a plugin.

Making Stuff Splat
In this tutorial we will learn how to make a stuff splat.

Compositing textures
What is compositing textures and how to use them in your model.

Making tire treads
Make a tire which looks real by making its treads.