3ds Max

3ds Max & 3ds Max Design Product Manager Shane Griffith has posted some interesting physx + iray goodies on his blog over at The Area

The Autodesk Subscription Advantage Packs for the 2011 editions of Max, Maya, Softimage, Motionbuilder and Mudbox have been released!

Features include:-

Max 2011

mental images iray renderer is almost with us as part of the Subscription Advantage Pack for 3ds Max 2011 and 3ds Max Design 2011.

Renderstuff.com have posted a really nice tutorial on making a shaded wireframe render in Max

The tutorial goes though the mopst basic solution and then moves on to highlight other more complicated methods like Isoline rendering and V-Ray tips and tricks

The second part of Ben Tates tutorial on creating a Lantern in Max is now available to view over at CGTuts+.

The tutorial goes over the entire process of modelling, uvmapping, texturing, lighting and rendering a Lantern using poly modelling and splines

Autodesk has released some videos showing the awesome new features that are included in the Max 2011 Subscription Advantage Pack over at The Area

CGArchitect are running a cool new competition to celebrate Max reaching its 20th birthday!

Ben Tate has recorded a nice tutorial for our friends over at CGTuts+ on creating a Lantern in Max.

The tutorial goes over the entire process of modelling, uvmapping, texturing, lighting and rendering a Lantern using poly modelling and splines

MaxCookie have posted a great tutorial on creating hair with the Hairfarm plugin for Max

The 33 minute tutorial goes through using the Hairfarm modifiers and takes a basic look at things like Hair shading and colour variation.

In this video tutorial by professional 3ds Max artist Laurens Corijn, you will learn the ins and outs of using splines to easily create extremely complex geometry in 3ds Max.