Recent grad Elena from Bournemouth University gives us a breakdown of her Ghost Deer project. She explains the tools, techniques and resources she used.

A brief breakdown of an Old Dwarf character project done while studying at Gnomon School of Visual Effects.

Cinema 4D gives you a quick and easy start in the world of 3D graphics and animation with the same tools that professional artists at major production studios use. The legendary ease of use makes it easy to get started and lets you concentrate on what’s most important – your creativity.

Maya XGen is a geometry instancer that lets you populate the surface of polygon meshes with an arbitrary number of primitives either randomly or uniformly placed. This means that with XGen you can procedurally create and style hair, fur and feathers for characters.