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  • The new way to create 3D text

    3D text needs the right depth, lighting and texture. Nik Ainley tells you how to do this without re-rendering nightmares.

  • Adding perspective to maps

    Mark Mayers shows you how to give flat maps a third dimension by using the Free Transform tool and a custom perspective grid.

  • Visualising objects in 3D

    3D modelling is no longer a painful and awkward process, thanks to a free application from Google. Jerome Turner introduces the main features of Photoshop, Flash and Illustrator.

  • The art of robotics

    The Embassy's original -style Citroën C4 spot became a worldwide cult hit. With the studio just having finished work on a sequel, we asked its CG team to reveal some of the ad's technical secrets.

  • Cut a showreel

    Use Adobe to create a dynamic showreel. J.J. Johnstone shows you how to prepare, produce and publish your own reel...

  • Sound and vision

    Synching animation to a soundtrack doesn't have to mean fiddling around with endless keyframes. Here's how to create a procedural animation of a stereo speaker driven automatically by a WAV audio sample.

  • The secrets of illustration

    This month, Our panel of experts provides tips to help you produce 3D illustrations quicker and more flexibly: from the use of stock assets to vital tricks.

  • Introduction to Papervision3D

    In the second part of our tutorial, Paul Wyatt further explores the interactive options of the real-time 3D component and shows you how to produce a COLLADA file.

  • Introduction to Papervision

    Flash gets flashier with the introduction of Papervision3D, a real-time 3D engine component. Paul Wyatt gets you up and running with it and shows you how to incorporate 3D models into.
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