http://www.jtbentley.com/ All site news including new 3D Max (and other) tutorials will be listed here. jt@jtbentley.com en-us http://www.jtbentley.com/gallery/strip09.jpg My long absence has finally come to an end. After taking a new role interstate as Technical Director at Nextgen Reality I have finally settled in and have time to continue working away at my site. It might be half a year late, but I'll also finish the Kang and Kodos tutorial. http://www.jtbentley.com/gallery/kang_n_kodos.jpg I have nearly completed a new (user requested) tutorial. How to model Kang and Kodos. The actual modelling component isn't so hard or time consuming, its really just screenshots, instructions and making support material that's taking up so much time. Stay tuned. http://www.jtbentley.com A viral ad I did some time before Christmas is finally around for public viewing. I'm pretty sure they meant to name the fish 'Klaus' (American Dad), but come shoot day totally forgot and resorted to Roger (the name of the alien from American Dad, instead). Here's some quality tube viewage. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxUx4HG52s4 I've finally got around to uploading a newer version of my show reel. It's only commercial-orientated work that was done from mid 2006 to mid 2007. Worth a look if you have exactly 60 seconds to spare. In other news, buy Bender's Big Score on DVD. The more copies they sell, the more likely they'll make even more Futurama. This can't ever be seen as anything but a good thing. http://www.jtbentley.com/prevwork_mazda.htm I've pulled some more images out of the air for the gallery from previous work. Along with this, I've put up another Previous Job run down, namely the Mazda BT50 commercial. http://www.jtbentley.com/tut_randomise.htm Well this is the first of the user-requested tutorials going up. It's a simple one but its very useful. How can you quickly jiggle a hundred (or more) objects around on any axis within a certain range? http://www.jtbentley.com/tut_passcomp.htm A new Photoshop compositing tutorial is available! For the one smartass who picked it, I've also fixed the Pool tutorial for a typo. http://www.jtbentley.com/tut_pool.htm Work with Mental Ray's architectural materials and final gather to make a realistic pool area - very very quickly. http://www.jtbentley.com/texturesb.htm I've been slightly lazy with the site, so to kick-start the new year I'll be putting up new tutorials, new textures, new job run downs and generally adding new content that wasn't there before. Starting with Texture Collection B, and I'll also be putting up an organic texture collection (and for amusement, I'll call it "C").