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tutorialS Practical tips and tutorials from pro artists to improve your CG skills tutorialS
Practical tips and tutorials from pro artists to improve your CG skills
44 grow proCedural plants
in houdini
Achieve natural plant growth
for games or animation

58 master destruCtion
effeCts with gnomon
Set up robust simulations in
Maya and Houdini

74 basiCs: extrude
This month we take a close
look at the extrude tool

artiSt Q&a

68 3d Creature sCulpting 50 simulate a ghost rider transformation 76 your Cg problems solved
How to use ZBrush and Photoshop to transform The tricks needed to make skin peel off a face to This month, using Redshift
reference photos into sci-fi creatures reveal a burning skeleton underneath proxies, moving between
DAZ Studio and ZBrush,
making bubbles, a jellyfish and
speeding up arch-vis renders

reviewS

92 lw Cad lite 5.2
How will this LW CAD plug-in
behave with Cinema 4D?

94 zbrush 4r8
We test all the new features to
see how they perform

97 armari v25r-ra760g2
The Ryzen 7 CPU promises
great things – does it deliver?

64 Create a dr strange-style portal effeCt regularS
Call upon particles to conjure up a magical portal, like the one used in Dr Strange
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84 valerian and the City of a thousand planets 90 47 meters down
When Luc Besson had a vision for bringing a comic-book world to life, Outpost VFX discuss creating its
he called upon multiple studios to make it happen first creature feature

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