This is the first video in a new playlist which previews my full course, 3ds Max + Forest Pack You can get the full preview HERE: https://bit.ly/2S5aWyd or Continue watching on youTube Here is some of the course description for the full course: COURSE OVERVIEW Photorealism is often hard to achieve because the amount of the amount of detail you need to add to your scene in order to achieve it. It doesn't have to be this way, though. With the proper professional tools, it is relatively fast and easy to add enormous amount of photorealistic details to your 3ds Max scene. In this course, we will explore those tools, including: V-Ray Forest Pack PRO Quixel Suite (Megascans, Bridge and Mixer) Students will use these tools specifically to quickly create a 3d environment that is fully photorealistic, complete with photoscanned models, scatters, photoscanned materials, professional models and atmospherics. Students will also go over a professional post-processing workflow for environment scenes. Below is a basic outline of what to expect: Basic modeling of terrain in 3ds Max Forest Pack PRO - all the settings you need to know to have complete control over your scene Quixel Bridge - use Bridge to quickly and seamlessly import photoscanned content into your scene Importing professionally made models into your scene to add realism (i.e. Evermotion models) Quixel Mixer (coming soon) - Use Mixer to create photorealistic materials for your environment scene with photoscanned content Atmospherics with both 3ds Max and V-Ray techniques V-Ray Render Settings Professional post-processing in Photoshop - add more atmosphere with V-Ray Zdepth channel, use Camera Raw filter, etc.

If you want to actually get this model, and also continue previewing the course, you can go HERE: https://bit.ly/2S5aWyd In this video we start from the very beginning, using our inspiration sketch as a guide. I simply start creating the polygons from scratch, then pushing and pulling a little bit in order to get the right look to match our sketch. This is very basic, but will become the building blocks for a very realistic and complex scene eventually. Continue watching for more about developing this realistic 3d environment. You can watch the next video in the series on youTube, or just go direct to the full preview by clicking the link above.

To Continue Watching This Course, You Can Go HERE: https://bit.ly/2S5aWyd In this portion of the course we are still doing preliminary setup of the scene by sculpting a large plan to have some modeling to it and look more like terrain. This is an easy way to be introduced to the very simple sculpting tools in 3ds Max, and to generate something more interesting for your terrain than a simple plane. If you continue in the course you will see how we will add all sorts of photo scanned elements, tree / plant models, all sorts of scatters, etc. to make this a much more exciting 3d environment. Of course we will also learn to create dynamic environment lighting, atmospherics, etc.

To Continue Watching This Course, You Can Go HERE: https://bit.ly/2S5aWyd This is the end of the free preview portion of this course on youTube. Of course, you can continue to watch more of it for free by following the link above, or you can pay a small price for the full course in the same location. In this portion of the course, I am using basic camera navigation tools in 3ds Max to place the V-Ray camera just how I want it, and also continuing to refine the terrain. I am also setting up the proper aspect ratio, seen with safe frames in 3ds max, and finding the proper zoom angle. Click the link to get more preview of this course.