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This series of ZBrush tutorials orientates around speed and efficiency and how to achieve detailed sculpts within a few hours. Each of the ten chapters focuses on a different character topic ranging from mythical creatures such as the Minotaur and Cyclops, to pirates and monsters.

A 3D artist and photographer, Torsten Pflug has created 16 HDRIs, tonemapped images and sIBL sets. Within each panorama are hotspots allowing you take a step-by-step tour through the medieval city, which is perfect for grabbing textures directly from the interface or providing images for matte or concept paintings.

This eBook series takes a simple 3D scene, with a limited number of objects and a low-to-intermediate amount of geometry, and shows you how custom textures can be created from a library of photos in Photoshop. All of the reference images are taken from 3DTotal’s Total Textures collection and form the foundation of the exercise. Rather than using actual geometry, this tutorial covers how you can combine and fuse numerous images into unique templates, which can then be used to describe a variety of materials, creating the illusion of detail and volume.

Have you ever thought about taking up Digital Painting? Or do you think that you could do with improving your basic skills? If this is the case then The Beginners Guide to Digital Painting is the eBook for you.

This five part series will focus on the topic of setting up a variety of lighting rigs that reflect natural lighting at different times of the day and manmade interior lighting. Each of the chapters will use the same base scene as a starting point, and will show a step by step guide to finding a lighting and rendering solution that best reflects the desired lighting situation.

The Matte Painting tutorial is a 39-page guide showing you, over five parts, the basics of Matte Painting, whilst also giving some more advanced techniques in the final chapter. Industry professional Tiberius Viris takes an interesting photograph and creates an easy-to-follow set of tutorials about how to add varying conditions to this – or any other – scene.