Update: 04.02.11 New Tutorial

I just made a new tutorial for Rayfire called
"Ground Smash". The idea was sent to me
from an anon on youtube and i feel it'll answer
some of the questions ive been getting
pertaining to Rayfire like, how to keep objects
still during simulation until you trigger them.

as usual you can check out the tutorial preview
on youtube here >>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pXLaYLKD0A&feature=channel_video_title

or you can download it straight from the sauce
here >>
http://www.mediafire.com/?7d28y0gd8xb8x

Remember guys, never take a bootleg version of my
tutorials, because they never include all of the
extras i provide as helpers/caddies to the main
tutorial.

any questions? just ask. . .

as always its important to have fun while learning, so have fun!!

Update: 02.20.11 New Tutorial

Greetings to all my fellow nerds and video game geeks

i have a new tutorial on how to work with rayfire!!
you can check out a preview on my youtube account
here

>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0KMgIsW8YE

or you can download the full tutorial plus extras
here

>http://www.mediafire.com/?745jwi1y3v7dg

as always the tutorial is in a full 1920x1080
resolution

Remember guys, never take a bootleg version of my
tutorials, they never include all of the extras i
provide as helpers/caddies to the main tutorial.
In this set I've actually included a bonus mission
where you can test your new skills.

any questions?

just ask. . .

as always its important to have fun while learning, so have fun!!

Update: 11.29.10 New Video!

The Fork Video



meh, a fork i had to model for a scene where the new croney bot v4 will face off for the first time against the combot v4.



_gawn

Update: 11.25.10

The new Tutorial is ready to be downloaded!!!

Here is a video overview of the package. Also, dont be scared to go full screen on this video its a full 1080 HD res.


Here are the links for the downloads>>

Rapid Share:
http://rapidshare.com/files/433056460/Tutorial_-_MG_-_Croney_Bot_v4.0.part01.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/433058664/Tutorial_-_MG_-_Croney_Bot_v4.0.part02.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/433061983/Tutorial_-_MG_-_Croney_Bot_v4.0.part03.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/433064670/Tutorial_-_MG_-_Croney_Bot_v4.0.part04.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/433066925/Tutorial_-_MG_-_Croney_Bot_v4.0.part05.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/433066849/Tutorial_-_MG_-_Croney_Bot_v4.0.part06.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/433067006/Tutorial_-_MG_-_Croney_Bot_v4.0.part07.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/433067000/Tutorial_-_MG_-_Croney_Bot_v4.0.part08.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/433067065/Tutorial_-_MG_-_Croney_Bot_v4.0.part09.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/433067163/Tutorial_-_MG_-_Croney_Bot_v4.0.part10.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/433073345/Tutorial_-_MG_-_Croney_Bot_v4.0.part11.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/433067328/Tutorial_-_MG_-_Croney_Bot_v4.0.part12.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/433067994/Tutorial_-_MG_-_Croney_Bot_v4.0.part13.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/433066955/Tutorial_-_MG_-_Croney_Bot_v4.0.part14.rar

File Serve:
http://www.fileserve.com/file/gwf89cQ
http://www.fileserve.com/file/c5Pm5sY
http://www.fileserve.com/file/fsFEpUB
http://www.fileserve.com/file/R5B4d3u
http://www.fileserve.com/file/SUzbh2c
http://www.fileserve.com/file/6pKk3YS
http://www.fileserve.com/file/K6dv3j3
http://www.fileserve.com/file/hybHHT8
http://www.fileserve.com/file/vJbcpV9
http://www.fileserve.com/file/ppx7z7b
http://www.fileserve.com/file/7y4z6tu
http://www.fileserve.com/file/6b3Xtv6
http://www.fileserve.com/file/4P7BaVs
http://www.fileserve.com/file/RAHbtNp

Media Fire:
http://www.mediafire.com/?c1ogd4h64a14zo3
http://www.mediafire.com/?wtr4i41vf22mxd3
http://www.mediafire.com/?79bvjrzja9sj5lj
http://www.mediafire.com/?e7clj3mc7r1klh8
http://www.mediafire.com/?8vyaq3un2reqfk3
http://www.mediafire.com/?fysy418od1841ga
http://www.mediafire.com/?ovn4tovyabjjonv
http://www.mediafire.com/?fl8nvr2gy1awa4z
http://www.mediafire.com/?yk6re2bf8171z3f
http://www.mediafire.com/?ac04ya0ptamvtsx
http://www.mediafire.com/?r5wawuo53pises4
http://www.mediafire.com/?li56j1xtw6u63ds
http://www.mediafire.com/?dljas4yz9j9gzd4
http://www.mediafire.com/?brx2ozp1uv66yvi

as always guys have a good day/night and i hope you can learn something from this. . .



_gawn

Update: 11.23.10 + Tutorial News

Hey guys,

I know its been a while life has been kinda hectic for me recently, so I've been behind. As you may or may not know I left my position at the Emmy Award Winning Bluecadet Interactive and I've been beefing up ye ol' resume, hitting the pavement and weighing the options in front of me. It now looks as if I'll be working for the worlds premiere defense contractor Lockheed Martin. So with some stability back into my life I can start to ease back into helping you, the viewer.

With all that being said, the most common request I hear I should do a tutorial on is modeling, rigging and animating my transforming robotic parts. The problem is there there is no real way to make a tutorial on modeling unless you're speaking of specific tools. That sounds boring to me and I'd rather have a project to show you how I do it rather then go over the "basics" of modeling. So, the other night I was on the [3/ board and we were talking wallpapers and I posted my new "4 screen" wallpaper featuring some of the robots you see in my videos. Somebody mentioned that I should add some kind of weapon to the *Croney Bot's* head.

Aha!! Now I have a project I can show you, the viewer, on the exact process I go through to make this happen. So for my next "tutorial/making of" I show you how I go from concept to modeling to rigging/linking to animating.

It should be awesome for you guys to see how I achieve theses effects. It should be available with-in the next couple of days as I am already in the final stages of getting this to you. . .

ps: the 4 screen wallpaper can be found here, on my DA account.

Quad Screen Wallpaper by ~MrGAWN on deviantART
Press the "download" button for the full res image to open up. Full res size is 7680 x 1080


_gawn

Update: 07-24-10

Hello everybody. . . (all 3 of you)

I just posted my new tutorial, "Spring Rig"

Spring Rig:
In this tutorial I will show you how to rig bones using a IK Spline solver. Doing this can allow you to easily rig up capes, wires, hair, antennas and more!

Plus:
In the Rapid Share file I also included a custom UI for your quad roll-outs, as well as a custom color scheme. Both of which is help you become more familiar and comfortable while working in the *Expert Mode* in 3DS Max.

Fear Not:
I hear all the cries for full character rigging. It will be done though history tells me that my longer tutorials don't have many people that follow them. Make no mistake, that tutorial would take a very longtime to finish. I will have to break it up over a series of tutorial sets.

So until then, here is the "Spring Rig Tutorial". It's fast, fun and very easy to do. I will take a load of your shoulders with this easy trick!!!

Youtube:
Pt. 1 of 3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhHg0ZD1ULQ
Pt. 2 of 3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36583YqcgF4
Pt. 3 of 3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0clEfFH2T8

Be sure to download the Rapid Share files for all of the videos in 1920x1080 HD and the *.max* project files. There are great extras with this package too. I'm sure you will enjoy them.

Rapid Share:
http://rapidshare.com/files/408876737/Spring_Rig_Tutorial.rar.html

no password this time

Stay tuned for more cg goodness. . .

_gawn

Update: 07-16-10

Hey guys, Mr. Gawn here. Just letting you know I made a new wallpaper. I designed it for a project I'm working on with a couple of engineer buddies of mine.

Click the image for full size view.

Gamma 3 Wallpaper 001 by ~MrGAWN on deviantART

The full sized image is 1780x1142

As always I'm still working to create new and exciting tutorials for you, the viewers to learn and enjoy.

_gawn