Another “Making Of ” Tutorial, this time for Rosso scene.

It has been published on 3DTotal site and you can follow the tutorial through this link :

http://www.3dtotal.com/index_tutorial_detailed.php?catDisplay=1&id=1442#.TuXtJNXIt8E

Hope you like it and find it useful.

Today I wake up into a great news that I have got the 1st prize in Arch-Factory’s Product Rendering Competition:
Doing The Assembly Line Work. 
http://www.arch-factory.com/doing-the-assembly-line-work-winners-announced/
The competition goal was to make photo-realistic product shot renders. My Decode Lamp renders made the 1st place. I feel very happy to hear this as the first thing of the day and I would like to thank  Arch-Factory site and the jury for giving me this chance.

My Rosso scene is published on the latest issue (no 35) of the 3D Artist magazine. I feel very happy and honored  to take part with great artists from all over the world. You can buy the latest issue or take a look at in the older issues of the magazine from the website.
http://www.3dartistonline.com/

After I published my Rosso scene, I had many requests and many people were asking me to prepare a tutorial about how to create a curtain shader. Here is the mini-tutorial I promised for Ronen Bekerman Forum which has been one of the leading and creative arch-vis sites that I feel happy to take part.

http://www.ronenbekerman.com/material-curtain-v-ray/

My week starts with a  happy news : My Rosso scene has been selected Image Of the Week on 3DArtist magazine online :

http://www.3dartistonline.com/show_image.php?imageID=8656

Since a few days I am feeling excited that I will be able to use dual monitors. My second monitor  doesn’t have great quality in contrast and color depth- in fact it is a cheap monitor but it is great to be able to move all the secondary windows to this while working. In fact it feels a bit dizzy and confusing at the beginning because hardest part is that there is no taskbar on the second monitor due to the windows 7 limitation. So I made some search and discovered very nice tools and thought it would be useful to share all these with you who are new to using dual monitors like me.

Windows Shorcuts :

If you are like me and like to use many shortcuts and hotkeys from keyboard instead of mouse, then you will love these windows system shortcuts which are very handy.

MultiMon Taskbar :

This is a great freeware program that adds a taskbar in the second (even 3rd, 4th etc) monitor. You can download it from :
http://www.mediachance.com/free/multimon.htm

It is very handy to have the taskbar on your secondary monitor so that you don’t have to go back to your primary monitor any time you want to make something with the taskbar and saves great time.

Winsplit :

Again another freeware program to let you organise your windows with keyboard shortcuts. I installed it and I like how it works very much. You can download it from:

http://www.winsplit-revolution.com/home

Here there are two little videos about how to use the tool :

http://www.winsplit-revolution.com/screenshots/videos-demos

And they work with the dialog boxes, material editor and unwrap windows as well !

Dual Monitor Management Software Comparison

There are other commercial solutions which are combined with very detailed features such as Ultramon & Actual Multiple Monitors but at the moment I decided to use the freware ones.

Here you can find a detailed comparison analysis of tools for dual monitor management:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_multi-monitor_software

I got one happy news now that my latest scene Rosso has been awarded with “3D Excellence Award”.

http://www.3dtotal.com/pages/3dcommunity/members/index.php

I feel very happy and great honor to receive the award.

The project is scheduled to go up on 3D Total site on Sunday, 09 October 2011 00:00GMT.

Today is really very special and there are many surprised for me. After hearing the news that two of my tutorials published  ( you can find them under the tutorial category ) now I have got the news that  Rosso scene has been chosen for the CGWorkshop Choice Gallery.

Thank you CGWorkshop for this award!

http://cgworkshop.org/forum2/showthread.php?428-Rosso

Today  is a special and  lucky day  for me because it is very nice to  have  2 of my  tutorials published in one day.  This is a tutorial that I have prepared for Evermotion : The Making Of Story Of Bronte Scene.  Hope you find my tutorials useful.

http://www.evermotion.org/tutorials/show/7976/bronte-making-of

Vray Lens Effects is a new tool in Vray 2.0. Last week I had time to test this new feature on my Rosso Scene night view and to share my experiments with you, I prepared one tutorial to be published on  my friend Matt Guetta’s blog.
The tutorial is English – only the introduction is in French. Here is the link for the tutorial:

http://www.mattguetta.com/vraylenseffect-par-alfa-smyrna/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+mattguetta+%28matt+guetta%29