Creating Tileable Textures: Technique

This Tutorial covers the process of making a tileable texture, but it brings up some good techniques you probably haven't seen before. It involves making a guassian blur layer and a using a high pass filter. It is effective for getting rid of lighting gradients in photographs. This is something I have needed for a long time so I thought I would share.

Making of The Parthenon - Modeling / Texturing / Lighting Tutorial

This is a great making of. Check it out here. It covers all aspects of the project from beginning to end.

3DS Tutorial - amazingly in depth and informative

This tutorial is obviously written by a very talented artist. It covers to very technical issues in 3d studio...camera matching and UV unwrapping. It it used to create this fantastic image. It covers each step very well. Study this one!

Making of Lighthouse - Vray Tutorials

This is one of the entries for the vizdepot archviz competition, Finding Shore. The artist has offered a step by step tutorial for how he created this amazing image. There are many great things to be learned here, including workflow and advanced tutorials. This is a great way to learn how to use Vray to create great images. Follow this project from beginning to end.

click the tag below to see all Vray Tutorials.

Free Textures and Texturing Tutorial

This site offers some good high res textures that are free to download.
http://www.burningwell.org/gallery2/v/textures/

This tutorial explains step by step how to make your own textures from photographs. This is an important tutorial for any beginning 3d artist. Bonus: This tutorial site also contains some great free textures. Enjoy!
http://www.stormvision.net/index.cfm/act/tutorials/tutorial_ID/1

Make sure and search this site for all our other free textures with the google search bar at the top of the page.