I’ve changed the online store system I use to be a much better product search, descriptions and checkout process. I’ve also started adding some new content to the store. A number of stock photos are available for incredibly low pricing. Also, check the 3D objects for some new content and browse the new store. I’d love to [...]
Having recently built Ethereal Render (which is a free community based rendered) I’ve seen and had many requests for other common features in a render management application. While Ethereal Render may offer some general rendering for modo users in a non-secure online distribution it by no means does anything close to what commercial render managers [...]
I spend a lot of time working back and forth with clients to review animations. Many of these 3D animations are minutes long so the thousands of frames can take an enormous time to render without a powerful render farm. In modo, I typically have all my texturing and rendering quality cranked up to provide [...]
This tutorial is for the plugin recoil available now for Modo 501. It is a free tutorial and you can download the free 3D scene for modo at the bottom of the tutorial. Recoil is a new rigid body dynamics plugin and I must say, a fantastic one that is well integrated into modo and [...]
Our new Ethereal Render product is ready for public use. Ethereal Render is a community based render farm that works across the internet to enable many machines to render the same scenes for modo at one time, greatly increasing the speed you can render at, since many machines are distributed frames for an animation render. [...]
Modo has the ability to key frame just about every single parameter under its hood as a channel. Except cameras for creating multiple angle renders and scenes. Sometimes a single scene with a full set and animation requires multiple camera views to be rendered out for later editing the views of your choosing. With my [...]
I’m happy to finally start mentioning a new product here at Ethereal 3D. Its called Ethereal Render and is a community based distributed render engine for modo. I started plans for it about a year ago and while learning more about C# and database programming, I’ve written, rewritten and added more and more to Ethereal [...]
These are a number of not so common tips and concepts for modo‘s item list and item selection modes that this short tutorial outlines. For more tutorials, please check out our training section in our shop. Collapse and Fold When you have a lot of items in your itemlist, you will typically have a large [...]
There are now a couple of new underwater objects in the online store here at Ethereal 3D. There is an object of a Black Tip Reef Shark and another of a Naso Tang Marine Fish.
3D Object – Mountain Unicycle I wanted to outline a few new items in our product list here at Ethereal 3D and a few other changes to the site. I continue to add to the 3D objects that are available and this month I’ve added a detailed mountain unicycle to the list. Unicycles are often [...]
One of the best things I enjoy as a 3D artist is the time I take to explore new software and create my own ideas, not the usual graphics requested by a client with their own ideas and restrictions. This amusement park scene is one of those examples where I was exploring some of the [...]
This tutorials shows how to use a number of simple building mesh objects in modo 401 and use replicators to distribute them into a large city scene with many buildings for variety. This technique works great for backgrounds and city environments for various types of animations and is all available for free using online buildings [...]
This tutorials shows some steps to convert a model from the online Google 3D warehouse into a simple single mesh single texture object. This can be very useful for creating filler content that is not the center of attention but easily good enough for stand in content and backgrounds to 3D scenes. I’ll be taking [...]
A large scale plastics resin processing system was animated to show a completed installation with 3D animation used to highlight specific components and processes within the equipment. This project started with models from the client supplied from solidworks and they were then imported into modo. As with any model import, there is much model cleanup [...]
A tutorial showing the steps to produce a standard wooden canoe.
Visualizations provided for demonstrating underground operation and theory behind cavity pumps for oil and gas
Visualization, simulation and prototypes are frequently needed in 3D to demonstrate what cannot otherwise be done yet or cost effectively.
Single objects, products, prototypes, designs and samples are often needed in 3D.
Logos are always popular in 3D, especially animated with effects to help draw the attention of the viewer!
Characters are important to telling any story and viewers relate to nearly anything that “comes to life” as a character in animation.
This gallery highlights many of our sample animations. These are available at higher resolution (720P HD) for download and viewing.
A new online store is now available here at Ethereal 3D. Many of our products are now available in the store with more being added and many more to come in the future. Everything is available for immediate download and purchasing and the content from the store can be downloaded as soon as it is [...]
A variety of images showing additional 3D graphics, effects, sets and other various graphics.
This gallery contains links to many of our older animations. You can click any items in the gallery to view it larger and for the link to the animation file. Each of these animations are only available in mpg video format.
These images are just a few examples from client work done for DVD and video.
This is a showcase of our work. Our demo reel is about 5 minutes of animation content taken from a variety of our own internal work and client work. You can view the demo reel directly here at our website or download a high quality animation file for viewing.
From sculpting tools within a 3D application to simply building what first comes to mind, abstract shapes and organic forms often are desired in 3D for imagery, backgrounds, cover art and other graphics. This gallery shows a number of samples of abstract 3D graphics possible.
Architectural House Plan Layout This articles was created from my postings on a community forum and was not created as a complete step by step tutorial. It does however, show various stages of progression with some brief outlines as to how it was created in modo. These images and steps should help demonstration one method [...]
Salt and Pepper shakers are now available in the online store.
A new 3D model of a rigged ceiling fan is available in the store. See here for more details…
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