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Other 3D programs

Sketchup - Here is the link for those of you too lazy to google it :I sketchup.google.com/

3DS Max - Fully functional 3D program that can be used for modeling, animation, games, etc. It comes with Mental ray, a fairly good renderer. It's not specifically designed for making buildings, so it's harder to use than Sketchup in that regard, but it has awesome free plugins like the ones listed below. It is not free, but they offer free versions to students in participating schools (usually most colleges) which means as long as you have an e-mail account registered to your school, you can download it for free. usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/…

Ghost Town - A free 3DS Max plugin that will procedurally generate cities within minutes. It is still in development so expect it to have bugs, but it still works well enough for me. www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scr…

Building Generator - Another free 3DS MAX plugin. It automatically generates buildings within seconds. These buildings are more detailed and customizable than the ones in Ghost Town, but it only generates one building at a time. Also, it does not generate interior furnishing, only the exterior. www.tysonibele.com/Main/Buildi…

Blender - 100% free fully functioning 3D program that can be used for character modeling, animation, games, etc. Best used with the plugin below www.blender.org/

Suicidator city generator - a Blender plugin that comes in both free and pro version. It has ups and downs compared to Ghost Town so it's good to check out both and use them both to best fit your needs. cgchan.com/suicidator/

City Engine - It's a crazy complicated 3D program that generates super realistic and customizable cities. However, it is also crazy expensive and will immediately crash if your computer doesn't have 16-24 gigs of RAM. Not really recommended unless you want to base your entire career on drawing cities www.esri.com/software/cityengi…

CityScape - An amazing and easy to use program that used to come free with 3DS Max but stupid stuff happened and now the program doesn't exist at all; you can't even buy it. However, if you know your google well, and knows the dark corners of the internet, you can still find a student version of it. No link because it technically doesn't exist anymore (or does it? ಠ_ಠ )

Kerkythea - A free external rendering program capable of photo-realistic results. I just found out about it and haven't used it yet but it sounds pretty cool on top of being free.

V-ray - a render plugin for 3DS Max, Sketchup, and other 3D programs. It can render realistic and non-photo-realistic images (i.e. cartoon line art), it also has cool fisheye lens and other effects. It renders directly within the 3D program so you don't have to switch to another render program to use it. It is not free ): www.vray.com/

Other Drawing programs

Paint tool SAI - Love this program. Very easy to draw with compared to Photoshop, which is better for editing than drawing. It's also very cheap. Only around $50 when I bought it www.systemax.jp/en/sai/

Corel Painter - Good for mimicing traditional materials such as oil paint and water color. Ideal for adding that extra hand painted feel to 3D images. Not free and not cheap ): www.corel.com/corel/product/in…

Photoshop - Everyone has heard of it. Like the name, it's best at editing photos (or 3D images). It's also used by many artists to paint, but I prefer SAI. www.photoshop.com/

Too poor to buy any of these?

Most of us are not rich or just too young and mom said "NO"... well, I'm NOT encouraging this, but a standard rule is: If there is a program, a free cracked version of it exists somewhere on the internet. Usually google is enough to find them, if not, try 3D forums.

Good luck!

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Comments: 868

paolinasie [2013-05-08 13:32:14 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much for the tutorial!

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itland-9-13 [2013-05-05 16:36:26 +0000 UTC]

Ah yes. I'll definitely make use of this one. Thanks a bunch!

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Ferronic [2013-05-01 23:03:35 +0000 UTC]

This is an amazing tutorial. Thank you so much. This lets me take some of my 3D models and do some really cool Photoshop things to them. I don't have great by-hand art skills but this might help get my ideas across in an artistic way. This could be really useful for making concept art type things.

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iLSNerd [2013-04-28 22:22:38 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!

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KDCPhoto [2013-04-24 01:51:53 +0000 UTC]

I have Zero digital art skills but this tutorial is awesome! I had no idea you could do this!

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Drimys [2013-04-17 00:38:54 +0000 UTC]

awesome!

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J-Harker [2013-04-07 02:05:12 +0000 UTC]

Okay, I love this but I ain't try it. just yet

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ScarlettVampy [2013-04-05 18:52:10 +0000 UTC]

thank you so much, i gonna try!!!

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hermiko [2013-03-18 09:49:20 +0000 UTC]

Love you, you are the best!
*Hermi-kô***

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wuwufurubakp2 [2013-03-06 03:38:35 +0000 UTC]

This tutorial was so thorough! Your backgrounds are always so amazing. I've just started digital art, so I don't know much, but this was a great help.

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XxSceneyBabayxX [2013-02-28 06:51:58 +0000 UTC]

Awesomeeee!

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Cromysonsis In reply to ??? [2013-02-27 21:25:57 +0000 UTC]

I bet this is what background artists for anime do.

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InYuJi In reply to ??? [2013-02-23 22:59:06 +0000 UTC]

hahahaha, I laughed cuz I had thoughts of "how can people get away with "cheating" with backgrounds"?
Course, I did it once, but I'm a very conservative stickler to "all by you" person. Again, thanks.

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Riemea In reply to ??? [2013-02-14 18:45:26 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for making this absolutley awesome tutorial! I featured it here

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artistof12years In reply to ??? [2013-02-13 05:45:56 +0000 UTC]

Wow! Thank you so much, this was super helpful!!!

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aleiah-art In reply to ??? [2013-02-05 13:24:40 +0000 UTC]

omg i love this tutorial i love make background in traditional drawing but i don't have time to make it in digital this is a good tutorial i will use it !!!!
fav + watch <3 XD

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XxlittlemexX [2013-01-31 12:10:57 +0000 UTC]

This is perfect ;-; Thank you!
I've always tried drawing backgrounds but it fails every time ._. So i usually leave it white >.<
But with this I can do tons! : D

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ge-oh [2013-01-28 19:06:16 +0000 UTC]

Omg yuumei, I love you so much ;-;

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Zugoldragon [2013-01-21 04:11:15 +0000 UTC]

this will help me a lot
BUT...... unfortunaly im too young to get a job (not really, but my parents dont want me to get one ), but im good at downloading ANY program/game i want/need that's how i got SAI, sony vegas, the latest version of adobe flash and 100+ games on my wii muahahahah :3

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AdamsVoid [2013-01-20 01:30:24 +0000 UTC]

Pretty helpful!
Thank you very much, too

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Tsuyaya [2013-01-15 19:42:50 +0000 UTC]

OMFG, thank you so much! ;A;

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Rern [2013-01-15 04:25:34 +0000 UTC]

This... is amazing. I've used 3D programs to help get the blocking for environments down before, but NEVER LIKE THIS. Thank you for sharing!

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shadow-hobo07 [2013-01-05 00:57:09 +0000 UTC]

omg I gotta try this!

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kiku-atama [2013-01-03 11:33:00 +0000 UTC]

Holy tutorial

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MidnightGlade94 [2012-12-24 20:43:30 +0000 UTC]

Hello yuumei! I like your artwork and thanks a lot for that tutorial, I´ve recently beginned watching the videotutorials, however Thank you and Merry Christmas!

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lilyarrow [2012-12-22 23:42:43 +0000 UTC]

hey, can this be used for forest-type scenery?

please say yes!

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froeken-ert In reply to lilyarrow [2013-03-18 22:48:48 +0000 UTC]

I remember when I was working with Sketchup at school like 4 years ago, we did trees. So there should be forest sceneries in the database, just look it up!

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MaryTyndale In reply to ??? [2012-12-21 09:04:07 +0000 UTC]

you know it's really useful!!! This tutorial is something sooo perfect X333

P.S. can I ask U one thing? Is it true that many artists (manga artists, anime creators...) use this kind of programs to save time on their projects?

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aoiitsuki In reply to MaryTyndale [2013-06-26 15:21:58 +0000 UTC]

Yes, it's true. Manga Studio has a 3D engine built in also.

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MaryTyndale In reply to aoiitsuki [2013-06-26 18:03:09 +0000 UTC]

thank U for answering!!! That's a pretty useful thing to be aware of X3

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kemodji In reply to ??? [2012-12-18 00:11:08 +0000 UTC]

Thank you; I appreciate it.

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IronMeow In reply to ??? [2012-12-12 12:22:27 +0000 UTC]

Nice, i never thought about using sketchUP like this.
Seeing we only use sketchUP as a helping tool for exhibition i think i'm going t try this out when i have time to site down and try around

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Fucoc In reply to ??? [2012-12-11 10:52:18 +0000 UTC]

Thnak you for this! When i opened it, I though: WAAAY too hard for me! But it wasn't! Thanks thanks thanks ^_^

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munkiemee In reply to ??? [2012-12-10 00:40:35 +0000 UTC]

Words can't describe how much I love you for sharing this magnificent tutorial~ I've seen it before, but wanted to look it over again. It makes me want to start doing more backgrounds ^-^ This is a real quality tutorial. Thank you

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MidnightGlade94 In reply to ??? [2012-12-09 02:09:07 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for that tutorial! That will help me a lot!

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Dulluhan In reply to ??? [2012-11-29 14:41:30 +0000 UTC]

This is awesome but would you by any chance know how to paint-over photographs as line art from real life photos are hard to make

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McKnackus In reply to ??? [2012-11-19 16:23:54 +0000 UTC]

Very cool! I might try this out sometime, since backgrounds are the bane of my existance.

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odduckoasis In reply to ??? [2012-11-11 09:29:49 +0000 UTC]

I so need this! I have sketchup, but I had no idea how to utilize it like this. Very very helpful! Thanks!

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TheBadRomantic In reply to ??? [2012-11-11 04:01:25 +0000 UTC]

Okay so this is far from finished as I still need to paint the subject in, add more lighting effects, and add texture, but this is what I have so far thanks to your tutorial. Thank you, bee!

[link]

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o0IceCream0o In reply to ??? [2012-11-11 02:46:41 +0000 UTC]

thank you very much!

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TheBadRomantic In reply to ??? [2012-11-11 00:13:54 +0000 UTC]

I've been working for hours on my very first digital painting and have so far found this tutorial and your head perspective tutorial very useful.

But perhaps "useful" is an understatement. You REALLY helped me out here and I thank you so much for taking the time to do this.

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Chicanda [2012-11-09 16:00:46 +0000 UTC]

thankyou I rrly didnt know anything about huge and amazing backgrounds that can be generated like this, I hope tro try it sooner or later n n thankyou again!!

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Yoruva-Kotenox In reply to ??? [2012-11-07 12:36:15 +0000 UTC]

Excelent! Despite, the best part of your works is not the perspective, but the feeling you put in your drawings.

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tamaraR In reply to ??? [2012-11-05 09:45:09 +0000 UTC]

This is such an amazing tutorial. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with the community.

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Amzypop1 In reply to ??? [2012-10-31 15:48:16 +0000 UTC]

HOLY COW THIS IS AMAZING! THANKS!

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EizenHower In reply to ??? [2012-10-29 17:58:43 +0000 UTC]

This is a really masterpiece background tutorial for me, looks exactly what i want!! Great artist, great art! Thank you!!

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LennyThynn In reply to ??? [2012-10-27 22:18:03 +0000 UTC]

This is awesome, thank you so much for this! For one-person-teams this is a lifesaver, especially for someone like myself who tends to focus on the characters, and finds the backgrounds rather inconsequential. When I do do my backgrounds, the perspective is always that little bit off >.> Plus I tend to slack off when I've finished the sketch, which makes the whole fiasco very messy, ha. It'll help make it all more professional-looking, which is always a good thing :3

I'm just afraid I'll have to procure a totally new computer in order to make use of this >.>

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Raithe In reply to ??? [2012-10-22 14:52:36 +0000 UTC]

I should've thought of this idea ages ago! Amazing!

Lemme explain. I have a background in both character illustration and 3D, but I hate hate hate HATE drawing backgrounds because they either 1) don't set up like I want them to 2) don't get a lot of depth out of them 3) don't end up looking as well adjusted as the characters. I've been slacking on 3D to try to pick up on this but...I think this is a great way to blend the two skills. (I've already started modeling a piece to use for the next background idea.)

I think if you're designing the background, you're being creative too. Regardless, it's a wonderful tool and concept and I'm glad you made a tutorial about this and I wish you best of luck with your comic endeavors (which is where I think I'll be using it too....)

Cheers!~

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omgsars In reply to ??? [2012-10-13 04:01:13 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for the great resource

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chasiki In reply to ??? [2012-10-13 03:08:45 +0000 UTC]

What a beautiful way to "cheat!" And I mean that in a good way.

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