Devil in iron

Third book cover for Robert Howard series.

About color depth

Why 16-bit color space is better than 8-bit and where does banding in gradients come from?

Texturing of inorganic objects

In this tutorial I will show how to texture inanimate objects. Will try to describe the course of my thoughts. The lesson is written in the of makingof style and targeted at advanced 3d users. I will describe and explain my actions, but don't tell which buttons to press.

Raven wizard

Made for practice in character design.


WIP images and some sketches...

Modeling tutorial

Such a sequence of actions I do always when modeling organic characters. Perhaps with slight variations depending on the specific model.

Katana and brush

A little walk through. Image was done for book cover.

1. One of the first renders:


2. Details on handle. Polygonal modelling. Tsuba was done in zbrush:


3. Menuki added. Did some work on wrap:


4. Textures for blade and brush. Hair was done with standart 3ds max Hair&Fur:


5. Spray gathered from scans that were done for one of my past works. Kanji written by beautiful Chiyo