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Louis is a Technical Specialist in 3D Animation and Visual Effects for Autodesk. He joined Discreet Logic in 1998 and was involved in the real-time 3D broadcast graphics before joining the Digital Content Creation team. On his blog, Louis offers a wide range of video tutorials covering the products he specializes in: 3ds Max, Composite, Mudbox, Motion Builder, Matchmover and more...

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Creative tiling Ideas

In this blog post, you'll see 2 interesting techniques to tile textures. One technique to deal with variable size models and the other technique to use the Viewport Canvas to make bitmap textures tile.

Posted: Jan 25, 2012
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Comments: 5
Views: 1375
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Using Matchmover for Modeling

Matchmover can be used to model objects from real life footage. In this set of video, we’ll see how Matchmover and 3ds Max can be used to take video footage and extract 3D reference points, models and textures from…

Posted: Oct 07, 2011
Category: Autodesk 3ds Max, Autodesk…
Comments: 6
Views: 7438
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NAB 2011 - 3ds Max & Smoke Demo - in depth follow up

Last NAB, i had to create a workflow demo showing 3ds Max and Smoke on the Mac working together. In this post, i revisit this demo in depth to present all the detailed steps of the work i did to prepare the final…

Posted: May 24, 2011
Category: Autodesk Smoke
Comments: 6
Views: 10449
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3ds Max and Motion Builder Workflow (and a bit of Kinect)

In this post, see how to work with 3ds max and Motion Builder in an animation pipeline. See how to deal with Biped, CAT and custom Max Bones rigs when going to Motion Builder. Also, see how to hook a Kinect to Motion…

Posted: Feb 18, 2011
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Comments: 30
Views: 32198
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Substances in 3ds Max 2011 - with Gary Davis

A new material map type has been added in 3ds Max 2011 with the Advantage Pack (for customers on subscription) called "Substance". This post shows the value of Substances and gives a few tips on how to use them…

Posted: Dec 17, 2010
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Comments: 8
Views: 31359
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3ds Max Entertainment Creation Suite - Virtual Launch Recording

This is a 52 minutes presentation that Gary M. Davis and I put together to show the power of the 3ds Max Entertainment Creation Suite 2011 for Autodesk's Virtual Event on October 15th. This is an overview of what you…

Posted: Oct 15, 2010
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Comments: 12
Views: 12631