Image Pack

Here are some references images which you can use for modeling in your 3d application.
I collect these images from various websites. I hope you like it and if you have some images please share with us.

Images may be copyright of others, if you feel your image should not posted here please contact me, I will remove that.

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Nonmanifold geometry is some type of geometry, which cannot be unfold or in other word these object cannot be flattened properly. Hence it create problem in UV editor.
In Maya we have three type of nonmanifold geometry they are

1. More than two faces share an edge
2. Two faces share a single vertex without also sharing an edge
3. Two adjacent faces having opposite normals

These entire problems can be corrected by one command that is Cleanup in Mesh

Ambient occlusion in maya

you can get high res video here

In this video tutorial I try to show how to create ambient occlusion in 3ds max. I use max 9. First change render setting to mental ray then apply mental ray shader to all object this can be done by material override setting in render setting. In mental ray shader apply ambient occlusion texture and adjust its value to get final output, remember to change background color also.

To understand how ambient occlusion work visit this page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambient_occlusion

High res video is here

What is Normal mapping, How it works, where this Normal Mapping is used .... and lot more question about Normal mapping is answerd in this link this is very good article on Normal mapping from Wikipedia.

Their is also very good explaintion of Normal mapping on this site

you will also find some info from this site as well

For maya people how to use Normal Mapping is available here and for 3ds max here is tutorial.

Have fun with normal mapping

This site contains very good modeling tutorial. If you really want to learn good subdivision organic model then you should check out this website and their tutorial section.
In tutorial section you find tutorial for Head, Body, Hand, Leg, Foot, and Ear. There are some other tutorials on unwrap also. You may also check his gallery and links page for more information

“Rigging is the process of preparing a character (or object) for animation. It involves setting up an internal skeleton that affects where your character's joints are and how they move.”

This is what this site teach Rigging, if you want to learn rigging in Maya then this site is good for you, it has some nice tutorial about simple as well as complex rigging. You will find some useful Mel script also.
Very famous rig character Package Man is available for download with others, which actually help you to understand rigging, I also find helpful in practicing my animation skill.

What to say about this great site having more then 18000 blueprints. This site contains blueprints in 12 categories they are Cars, Motorcycles, Trucks, Buses, WW2 planes, modern Planes, Tanks, Ships, Weapons, Trains, Star Trek, Star wars, Humans, Miscellaneous, and Mobile Phones.

In tutorial section you find tutorial on how to setup blueprints in different 3d software

This tutorial covers the basics of generating UV projections, editing UV points, exporting UV maps to Photoshop, and bringing the finished texture map back into Maya. This tutorial assumes that the user has a fundamental understanding of the Maya interface, has some knowledge of polygonal modeling, and has experience with editing raster-based images in Photoshop

This tutorial is written by Brian Immel