Dave Deluria

Guto

Orange Bread

G2-Studio Photography

Water sparkles dance

Almazroa

Mark Grealish

Daniella T

Daniella T.

Bruna Marchioro

Break wave crashes down

White tumultuous water

Molten liquid gold

Tubular shining

Sand in surf

Scott Pruett

Beach surf crashes down

NASA

Trazy

Bruna Marchioro

Cavagna Ottavio

Corrado Borean

Jernej Verbovsek

Steve Castle

Romulo Lubachesky

Nature

Otit

Otit

Naomi Frost

Frank Brauner

NASA
Huge Hi-Res Photo of Infrared Andromeda™ with 1 trillion stars

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Licht

ec808x

Infrared-IR

Frank Brauner

Romulo Lubachesky

Red mysterious shot

NASA
An infrared image of Saturn™s northern region shows a luminous aurora with the planet™s mottled rings below.

Gilad

Romulo Lubachesky

Naomi Frost

Musin Yohan

Roie Galitz
This photo is titled The Fisherman.

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Licht

Sun glints off wave

the dreaming tree

18mm

Character hair
This tutorial shows how to create low poly hair for game characters using lots of images and some printscreens directly from the application used ( Maya, Photoshop, etc.)

Next-Gen Game Car
Model a game car without blueprints. This tutorial covers modeling, UV mapping and texturing.

Mini Cooper
This Maya tutorial focuses on shading and texturing.

Classical Girl
Making a Classical Girl by Wang Shiyong.

Foot
Modeling a foot in Maya, by Steven Stahlberg.

Making of a Toaster

Golden Diamond Ring tutorial

Tyre Modelling

Compositing For Production Using 3DSMax and Mental Ray

Making of a coffee table

Creating low-poly foliage

Render Glass

Making puzzles with a picture on top

Caterham

The Making of Kehel, elf warrior

Modeling a Cartoon Duck

Gordon Ramsay`s Caricature
Making Gordon Ramsay, caricature by Jason Edwards

Turtle
Maya tutorial on creating a realistic-looking turtle. Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3.

Making of “The Hunter”

Low-Poly Character Modeling and Texturing

Street Cop
Creating a street cop, by Mashru Mishu.

Dr Julian
Maya texturing tutorial by Julian Jeremy Johnson-Mortimer.

Character Walk Through
Maya tutorial on creating a stunning character.

Meet You
Making of Meet You by Zhang Sheng.

Facial Animation Rig for Delgo
This tutorial from Warren Grubb shows how he created a facial animation rig for this character, which is more powerful and flexible than standard multi-targeted blendshape rigs.

Making of Nissan 350Z

Making of Dead Twice

Tutorial: It’s Time for Bullets!

3ds MAX + VRay Tutorial :: Time is running

Clock tutorial

Creating a Golden Jaguar Statue

Making of cafe

Computer case modelling

Advance Illumination in 3ds Max

Making of Quad bike

How to create a car using the polygonal modelling

Gold Material Tutorial

Lighting your Spaceship

Chrome Material Tutorial

Dotted Dice

Tank
This tutorial focuses on making tank treads using Mel scripts.

Making eyelid rig with driven keys and expressions
This tutorial teaches you how to create an eyelid rig with driven keys and expressions.

Growing Flowers
In this tutorial, you see how to create a growing flower animation.

Stormy Ocean
This animation tutorial teaches you how to create a realistic ocean storm.

Clock Animation
Create a clock animation using Maya Expression.

Lava Effect
This tutorial explains how to make a shader for lava effects using Maya’s material editor, called Hypershade.

Rocket
Model a rocket with a particle trail in Maya.

Particle Emission When Objects Collide
Emit particles at the exact location of the collision of objects.

Destroying A Wall
Destroy a wall using rigid bodies and particles in Maya.

Rigid Body Collision Detection

Spaceship Fleet
This animation tutorial shows you how to use the particle instancer to create a fleet of spaceships flying across a plain.

Bend Deformer
This Maya tutorial covers the use of the Bend Deformer, which links one attribute to another, and the use of math in expressions to create animation.

Rotating Wheels
Learn how to create an animation of a wheel that rotates in sync with the speed of the car. The final animation is more accurate and realistic.

Falling Leaves
Create a falling leaves animation in Maya using nCloth and Paint Effects.

Yoyo Animation
Tutorial on animating a yo-yo, with the string wrapping around the fingers of a deforming hand.

Muscle Rigging
Maya tutorial on creating muscles that contract and expand a few frames before the limb moves.

Instancing Animated Geometry To Particles
Particle Instancing saves time when animating many identical objects in a scene.

Mechanical Stairs
This tutorial teaches you how to create a set of mechanical stairs.

BlendShapes
This Maya tutorial explains the process of using BlendShapes for facial animation.

Domino Effect
This tutorial teaches you how to set up the geometry of a domino effect and apply a passive-to-active key switch.

Jellyfish
This tutorial shows you how to create and animate jellyfish. It covers many topics such as modeling, texturing, animation and paint effects.

Walk
This complex tutorial uses Maya Expression to add repeating actions to a model.

Motion Blur
Add motion blur to your 3D animation in post-production by creating 2-D motion vectors in Maya.

Maya Live
Maya Live is a set of motion-tracking tools for matching CG to clean plate footage. This basic tutorial teaches you how to use Maya Live.

Hotbox
Hotbox is a great feature of Maya that will increase your speed and productivity. It allows artists to access every tool in Maya with the keyboard space bar, without having to waste time searching for tools and menu items all over the large Maya interface.

Irradiance Particles in Mental Ray
Learn how to use the powerful irradiance particle system in Mental Ray to lower your rendering times while balancing the rendering quality of your image using custom techniques and settings.

The tutorials featured below come from skilled professionals who work in the CG industry and are intended for advanced users of Maya software. You can use these techniques in other 3D software packages as well. Some of the tutorials use other packages like ZBrush, Mudbox and Photoshop in combination with Maya for best results. Before you begin any of these tutorials, make sure you have enough processing power: most of these tutorials are resource hungry. If you perfect the basic techniques covered above, try to use your skills to work on some of the high-quality projects featured below. Practice is the key to success.

Modeling a Character
In this tutorial, you see how Carsten Lind creates a character model in Maya.

American Alligator
See how Massimo Righi creates a sunbathing American alligator.

Next-Gen Environment Textures
A tutorial by Daniel Vijoi on creating next-gen environment textures in Maya. This tutorial focuses more on texturing.

Sohrab
Making Sohrab, by Farzad Dalvand.

Male Green Frog
Tutorial teaches you how to create a photorealistic render and 3D model that can be used for animation.

Steam MasterNext
Making Steam Master: next-gen game head by Sorin Lupu.

Spitfire War Plane
In this tutorial, you see how to model a Spitfire war plane.

Fruit Tarts
Make lovely fruit tarts, by Hau Ming.

Last ELF
Make the Last Elf in Maya. The author, Piotr Fox Wysocki, has done everything in detail to give it a real-life look.

Prince
Making Prince, by Robert Vari.

Tiger Zoo
Making Tiger Zoo, by Massimo Righi.

Prehistoric Animals
A demonstration of how this artist renders realistic-looking prehistoric animals.

Ingrid Bergman
Making Ingrid Bergman, by Max Edwin Wahyudi.

Morgane
Modeling Morgane in Maya, by Cousigne Adrien.

Breaking Subsurface Scattering into Render Layers in Maya
This tutorial is about the process of breaking the subsurface into rendering layers and compositing them in post.

Portrait of a Troll
Jonas Persson creates this Portrait of a Troll.

Cheese Platter
Detailed tutorial on making a cheese platter, by Hau Ming.

Quiet Room
Making a quiet room, by Yan Chan.

Gladiator
Making a gladiator, by Christopher ADAJAR.

The Making of Al Pacino Sculpt

The Making of Wonded Ork

Modeling of Chipi

Young Rodeo

Making of Wolverine

Bad Pussy (Hungarian)

Making of Paragalis

Making of Binah

The Making of Lulu

The Making of Warrior

Modeling and Texturing of a Shark Part-I Part-II

Modeling Creature’s Details

Mecha Modeling: Gundam RX-78-2

Dinosaur

The last knight

Making of Bugatti

Z4 Unleashed

The Making Of Porsche

Modelling overview of a Mercedes S-Class Millau

Anchor Box Modelling tutorial

Create airplane model

The making of Bruttus 4Z

Making a Chair in 3ds max

Joker
Making the Joker, by Mohammad taghi Aibaghi Esfehani. The detailing is done with ZBrush, texturing and matte painting and shave and haircut with Adobe Photoshop, and the finaly rendering with Mental Ray.

Varga
Making Varga in Maya.

Old Farm
Creating an old farm, by Daniel VIJOI.

Trapped
Making Trapped, by Massimo Righi.

Fatjon’s Performance
Making of Fatjon’s Performance, by Qu Yu Cheng.

High Polygon Realistic Character Creation
Creating a realistic high polygon character in Maya.

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How to Create a Flaming Photo Manipulation

Alien Photo Manipulation Photoshop Tutorial

Landscape photo manipulation

Making of Color Combustion a Photo Manipulation

How to Create an Abstract Photo Manipulation

Create a dynamic butterfly inspired photo manipulation

How to Create a Surreal Photo Manipulation with Twisting Water

Vibrant Photo Manipulation

Design a Photo Manipulation from Sketch to Color

Create a Magical Image using Photo Manipulation

End of the World Photo Manipulation

Texture Photo Manipulation

Making of a Forest Magical Scene

Combine Photo Elements to Create a Surreal Photo Manipulation

Alien Invasion

Blissful Landscape Photo Manipulation Photoshop Tutorial

How to Create a Cute Green Apple Photo Manipulation

How to Create a Fantasy Photo Manipulation

Create an Explosive Cover with Precise Photo Manipulation Techniques

Design an Epic Fantasy Scene with Photoshop

Creating Medusa With Photo Manipulation

Create a High Flying Snowboard Illustration

Scared Photo manipulation Tutorial

How to turn Tom Cruise into an alien

How to Design a Dramatic Winged Dragon with Photoshop

Photo-Manipulating an Image Into a Realistic Night Scene

Create a Face Shattering Effect

How to Apply Textures to Uneven Surfaces

Creating a Touching Story Scene in Photoshop

The Making of Mystic

Eery Eye Photo Manipulation

Manipulating a WW2 Fighter Aircraft

Making of a Sexy Humanoid

End of the World Photo Manipulation

Hulk Eyes Effect

How to Create a Fantasy Photo Manipulation

Create an Explosive Cover with Precise Photo Manipulation Techniques

How to Design a Dramatic Winged Dragon with Photoshop

Photo Manipulating an Image into a Realistic Night Scene

Transform a Person into an Alien

Photo Manipulations “ Digital Art Training

Bloody Method Photoshop Tutorial

Age Progression

Modern Ruins

Photo Manipulation: Lonely Fairy

Storm Effect

The Garden

Create a Nuclear Explosion Effect

Creating a Smoke Fading Effect

Eye Manipulation

Making of a Mythical Encounter

1. Planet Earth

This beautiful image was originally dubbed ‘The Blue Marble’ by the astronauts aboard the Apollo 17 spacecraft who took it, since at the time, with the sun behind them and the whole of the visible planet illuminated, the Earth took on the appearance of a giant glass marble. The photograph captures Africa and Antarctica in the southern hemisphere, captured by a crewmember on December 7th, 1972.

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2. Orion Nebula

Ever since human beings turned their attention to the heavens they have been aware of the Orion Nebula, a celestial feature situated at the south of Orion’s Belt that is visible to the naked eye. The ancient Mayan culture of Central America had a folk tale that explained this smudgy star-filled part of the night sky. The Hubble Space Telescope captured this wonderful image of the nebula in 2006, offering humanity the most detailed glimpse of Orion yet.

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3. Saturn Eclipse

On September 15th 2006, NASA’s Cassini orbiter drifted into the shadow of Saturn, and spent 12 hours photographing the planet and its rings shielded from the sun. In total 165 photographs were combined into a mosaic to create this amazing image of Saturn eclipsing our solar system’s central star.

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4. Eskimo Nebula

British astronomer William Herschel discovered this nebula in 1787, and it was subsequently named the Eskimo Nebula since its unusual double-shell formation resembles a person’s face inside the padded hood of a winter jacket. The star at the centre is similar to our own Sun, and the strange orange streaks seen in the outer part of the formation stretch for a light-year in all directions.

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5. Valles Marineris, Mars

This image, a collaged mosaic of 102 photographs taken by the Viking 1 Orbiter in 1980, shows Mars and the vast Valles Marineris that cut a deep gash through the planet’s equator. The system of canyons is 4,000 kilometres in length, 200 kilometres wide, 8 kilometres deep at its lowest points, and as such is the biggest known canyon in the solar system.

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6. The Night Lights of Europe

This fascinating image shows the twinkling lights of Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and Western Asia. The density of light reflects the level of urbanisation, with the seaboards and industrial cities of Western Europe particularly brightly illuminated, while large tracts of Africa and the barren lands of northern Russia are shrouded in darkness.

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7. Milky Way

This fabulous image from NASA shows the stars that swirl at the centre of our home galaxy, the Milky Way. Clouds of dust normally block the view from Earth to the galaxy’s centre, but by using an infra red camera the photographer was able to reveal parts of the spectrum that are usually invisible.

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8. Sombrero Galaxy

Galaxy M104 has the rather more attractive alternate name of the Sombrero Galaxy, due to its distinctive shape reminiscent of Mexican headwear. The galaxy’s bright nucleus, bulge of central light and dark ring of dust lend it this unusual shape. In the 1990s scientists discovered that a super massive black hole is located at the centre of this formation.

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9. Helix Nebula

The Helix Nebula is a large planetary formation in the constellation of Aquarius, and at about 700light-years away is one of the closest nebulae to the Earth. In the recent years the nebula has been given the nickname of ‘The Eye of God’, because of it’s characteristic optical shape.

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10. Nebula Ring

This is the glowing spherical shell and central star of the Ring Nebula, a prominent deep space object in the night sky, situated in the northern constellation of Lyra, 2,300 light-years from the Earth.

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11. Carina Nebula

These ethereal clouds of matter are found in the Carina Nebula, a bright formation that envelops several clusters of stars. Although it is one of the largest and brightest nebulae in the night sky, it is far less well known and observed than more famous formations such as Orion due to its position deep in the Southern Hemisphere. The Carina Nebula is located in part of our own galaxy, approximately 6,500 to 10,000 light-years from the Earth.

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12. Pillars of Creation

This image, entitled ‘The Pillars of Creation’ is one of the most famous photographs taken by the Hubble Telescope, and shows vast interstellar clouds. The picture captures a portion of the Eagle Nebula, and what we are seeing is actually the creation of new stars in this ‘young’ nebula.

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13. Kepler’s Supernova Remnant

This false colour image shows the remnant of Kelper’s Supernova, the structure remaining after the cataclysmic explosion of a star. The supernova is named after Johannes Kepler who observed the star’s explosion in October 1604, which at the time was brighter than any other star or planet in the sky.

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14. Butterfly Nebula

This mind-blowing photograph, taken from the Hubble Telescope, shows the death throes of a star, exploding with two gargantuan lobes of hot gas and debris. The dying star would have once have been fives times the size of our Sun, and the resulting explosion has created one of the hottest places in the galaxy at just under 20,000 degrees Celsius.

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15. Pale Blue Dot

On first impressions this image may look fairly indistinct, but in reality it is perhaps one of the most important photographs ever taken. The tiny blue-white dot, halfway down the brown streak on the right is actually our home planet, the Earth, floating in the dark depths of space, photographed by NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft in 1990 from a record distance of 3.7 billion miles. Astronomer Carl Sagan requested that the picture be taken, and he subsequently reflected that ‘all of human history has happened on that tiny pixel, which is our only home.’

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16. Jupiter’s Great Red Spot

Before Voyager 1 left the inner solar system and photographed the Pale Blue Dot, the spacecraft’s primary mission was to photograph Saturn, Jupiter and the two planets’ moons. This image was taken on February 25th, 1979, and shows the swirling drama of an anticyclonic storm on Jupiter’s southern hemisphere, the planet’s famous Great Red Spot.

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17. Rings Of Saturn

Voyager 1 took this image of Saturn at a distance of 5.3 million kilometres from the planet. Of all the amazing sights in our solar system, the rings of Saturn are one of the most remarkable. Composed of from nothing more than chunks of ice and particles of dust, the rings extend from 7,000 kilometres to 80,000 kilometres from the planet’s equator. While they have a massive circumference of 3,034,689 kilometres, the rings are estimated to be merely 10 metres in thickness.

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18. Aurora Borealis

The aurora borealis is the polar lights that beautifully illuminate the skies in the Earth’s northern regions. Their southern counterparts are called the aurora australis. These lightshows are caused by the interaction of atmospheric molecules and solar wind at the planet’s magnetic poles.

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19. Hubble Deep Field South

In the autumn of 1998, scientists trained the Hubble Space Telescope on the furthest reaches of space in the southern hemisphere. Hundreds of photographs were taken and composed into this final image, an astonishing glimpse into the universe’s past. Since light takes many, many years to reach us from distant stars, the galaxies captured in the picture are at the very early stages of the universe’s evolution.

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20. Microwave Milky Way

This amazing false-colour, all-sky view shows the Milky Way from the Earth’s side-on perspective. The picture was constructed with data recorded by the Planck spacecraft over the period of one year, and represents the microwave activity of the galaxy. The bright central strip contains formations that are hundreds or thousands of light-years distant from the Earth. The darker patches are an awesome 13.7 billion light-years away, and contain the ‘echo’ of the Big Bang. This picture and all of the images in this list represent some of humanity’s greatest achievements, and have helped develop our understanding of the universe, and or place within it.

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Lake Michigan

author: Adam Ludvigson

Ice Storm

author: Chelsea Nye

Winter Day in the Park

author: Mark Geistweite

Silent Serenity

author: Mark Geistweite

Hut Amidst a Storm

author: Tonio Di Stefano

Raven in Snow Storm

author: Doug Keech

Mother Nature is Confused

author: Michael Whittaker

Optimism

author: Jernej Lasic

I Am the Most Beautiful

author: Franz Schumacher

Heavy Winter

author: Mikael Sundberg

Karkonosze Mountains

author: Pawel Murczak

Bench

author: Marei

Frozen Fox

author: Roeselien Raimond

Playing

author: Bernadette Heemskerk

Cold Morning Flight

author: Doug Roane

Spirit of Adventure

author: Vadim Balakin

Frozen Trees

author: Davynessie

Frozen

author: Kenny Mui

Storm Coming

author: Kent Furnes

Winter and Cold Below Lost Rocks 4

author: Sasa Suchy

Winter Landscape

author: Bessula

Even the Sun is Frozen

author: Eystein Matheussen

White and Cold

author: Eystein Matheussen

Winter Wonderland

author: Ulrich J

Heavy Snow By River

author: J.D._needs_no_ID

Heavy Snow

author: r a r a and m e

Winter KAMAZ test-drive

author: Denis KLERO

Toppen Av Heisen Revisited

author: Ketil Skogen

Winter Tram

author: Just Dfour

Winter Snow

author: Óscar Gallego

Farmhouse in the Snow

author: Dick Verton

Patience – Moraine Lake

author: LukeAustin

Winter Fairytale

author: taurus13

Golden Blizzard

author: Arild Heitmann

Silence

author: Andreas Wonisch

Winter on Dovre

author: Geir Jartveit

Apples Orchard In Snow

author: Marcel Lemieux

Winter Morning

author: yuriyko

Winter’s Breath

author: Tom McCabe

Winter Moon

author: krissa85

Snow Storm

author: Five5times18

School Bus Approaching

author: David Chu

Winter Silence

author: Latyrx

Winter Light

author: Latyrx

Winter

author: P1nc

Ice Storm at the Mer Bleu Bog

author: Daniel Cadieux

Winter Story

author: Radu Carp

Blizard

author: martinhenson1

Snow in Tunbridge Wells

author: ankehuber

Heavy Snow Falling

author: RoyJr

Hurry up by Donchris

The Puma and The Castle by Tristan P Barratt

Light painting by Rafoto

Liquid Gloss by Owen

Orb 31 by Andrew Hall

Creature of the Light by Shubat

Bild 055 by FDU4

Luminous by XxShadoexX

Brian & Ben Silhouette by tackyshack

Light Painting Autoretrato by Rafoto

Fiona AllFM interview hello? by Weclight

Defecit spinning by Sceletium

Kitchen by Ella Harrington

Johnny Cash by Sa Jamil Hogan

EL Wire Portrait by ozzersharp

Mark’s Wool Spinning with the Rubber Ducky by tackyshack

Particle Acceleration by octopus777fish

Lightpainting – tesoro by Rafoto

Light persons by Superaguacate

Blurry by whymore

Painting with Light – Laptop by Neon280

Fabia Light by JogiART

Robo1 by Cygnus Rick

Grrr…. by MADINKDEPENDENT

Painting with light by Nardsketch