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Hard Surface Unwrapping and Texturing – 3ds Max, ZBrush, Xnormal and Photoshop – The Venerable Dreadnought
Great 3D-Palace Starter Deal! ATMT, APU, Serenity and 1 Month of PRIME!
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Motorcycles And Bikes Hard Surface Precision SubD Modelling in 3ds Max
The Necron Monolith – A 3ds Max Masterclass
UDK & 3ds Max, Building Simple Assets, Making Levels, Making Things Break and Shooting Things
Hard Surface Unwrapping and Texturing – 3ds Max, ZBrush, Xnormal and Photoshop – The Venerable Dreadnought
Great 3D-Palace Starter Deal! ATMT, APU, Serenity and 1 Month of PRIME!
DRIVE@ – Find Out More!
Sign Up to Prime and get GREAT BENEFITS TODAY!
Motorcycles And Bikes Hard Surface Precision SubD Modelling in 3ds Max
The Necron Monolith – A 3ds Max Masterclass
UDK & 3ds Max, Building Simple Assets, Making Levels, Making Things Break and Shooting Things
  • 3D-Palace

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    What is 3D-Palace?

    3D-Palace is one of the oldest and best training websites in the world, delivering dedicated inhouse created training to students and professionals worldwide. Our training sets are on shelves in studios from Bethesda to CryTech and even the UK Police Force.
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    Our Mission

    3d-Palace exists to educate and inform students worldwide, regardless of your financial postition. Our informed tutors and knowledgeable community are there to support you every step of the way and with our impressive portfolio of training, free and commercial, we WILL make you a better 3d artist!
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    Full Length and Awesome Too!

    Free AND Full Length commercial quality training? YES! At 3d-palace we want to teach you everything you need to know, regardless of budget. That's why we show you everything in our massive and awesome quality training.
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    Stream With No Signup

    3D-Palace is an approved Youtube Partner and that means we can deliver you streaming tutorials in HD for FREE, either via 3d-palace or via our own massively popular youtube channel The3DPalace. Its free, spend some time and learn why we are so damn good at what we do!
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    Massive Technical Sets

    To download or on DVD, our massive technical sets, masterclasses and project based sets are fantastic value, delivering more hours training for your money than any other commercial training place out there, dekivered with max files and references!
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    No Cuts, No Buts

    At 3D-Palace we hate cuts. We hate timelapses. We HATE dragging pre-made assets into your model (unless we show you how to make them too!). Thats why if you buy one of our trainign sets, we show you EVERYTHING from the start to finish to make that project work!
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    Premium Membership

    Premium Membership at 3d-palace means just that! For a monthly or yearly fee you get access to our best newest tutorials, including new ones that are STILL IN DEVELOPMENT (beta programme). Become part of our core community of PRIME members!
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    HD Streaming Sets

    High Definition streaming media delivered directly to your PC at blistering speeds or to your Iphone, Ipad, Mac or Android too! Want to watch it later? Download it to your computer and watch when you want - its PRIME and its STREAMING!
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    Bootcamp Training

    3 Years at college and $150,000 or 6 months intensive online DRIVEN training with 3d-palace for less than 1/20th of the overall cost paid weekly, yearly or monthly. Our courses professionally teach YOU to be a 3d artist and leave you with employable skills.
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    Simulated Real World Work

    We DRIVE you using real world examples. You are put into a simulated work placement and given time driven tasks to do whilst being constantly monitored and mentored by your own team leaders, project directors and allocated managers through the project.
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The Venerable Dreadnought Set

A personal favorite of Olblue (the owner of 3d-palace), this set not only shows you how to make, rig and animate the venerable dreadnought (an upgrade of the standard Warhammer Dreadnought), but also fire effects and more using FumeFX and Afterburn too!

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Warhammer Dreadnought

The Original Dreadnought High Detail Tutorial, this commercial set shows you how to create an entire Warhammer 40,000 dreadnought in detail, including creating a basic walk cycle. Not sure if you want the Venerable Dreadnought? This is a great way to find out!

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The Matrix APU 3ds Max Tutorial (Free)

The APU Set is one of our best tutorials, and its also completely FREE for you to watch the entire first section, covering building and animating the entire APU walker. Want to try it? Dont wait!

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The Advanced 3ds Max Robot Tutorial

The sequel to creating a parts library, this in depth video tutorial demonstrates how to create a full robot warmachine, starting with a simple basic concept and finishing with an amazing deadly looking mech walker.

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3D-Palace Forums

3D-Palace Forum is a massive support forum that exists so that members of the 3d community can get assistance, show their own projects off, ask questions or just chat and read about the latest goings on in the 3d world at large.  Registration is free and our well moderated forum is always friendly. You can register here, alternatively, if you are already registered, click here to view new posts.

Necron Monolith

The Necron Monolith has been re-released.  This great 3d-palace video tutorial set is available as a download or as a DVD set and covers the creation of a restyled Necron Monolith type vehicle, creating the complex shapes and forms and then working on complex materials such as emmissive glow materials. At only £34.99 this would make a great accompaniment to the Venerable Dreadnought tutorial set.  Alternatively if you are on a budget try out the Dreadnought 2 free tutorial set!
Welcome to 3d-Palace! Only PRIME@ and DRIVE@ members can log in via the frontpage - if you want to log in via the forum please go HERE.

You do NOT need to be logged in to use the shop or free tutorials.

At 3D-Palace, we have some great friends at other sites too.  Why not pay them a visit as well?

Youtube - Our own YouTube channel

Eat3D - Masters of Game Development Tutorials

UDK - Home of the FREE UDK Engine

Autodesk - Where most 3d software seems to be

CGTalk - Elitists or Experts?  You decide

Somethingawful - Because you need to unwind sometimes

3d-Palace Blogs

  • May looks nice
    Its nice that May is here at last. The weather is starting to improve and things are nice – birds tweeting etc etc. Anyway, 3d-palace seems to be coming together which is what is important – we have the brand new first ‘proper’ dvd release about to hit the store on monday (Bank holiday…ack). I [...]
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  • Something for the beta area till its done – Max to ZBrush – Making Robots Look Good.
    This is somewhat of an ongoing set – Im enjoying it however I am also slightly out of my usual element as I am using ZBrush as a workflow tool in the process of developing mechs. Not for modelling you understand – the initial modelling is done in 3ds Max where I believe I can [...]
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  • ZBrush
    As some may be aware, ZBrush and I have a history.  Years and years ago I reviewed it when it was first ever released and liked it a great deal however as the years went by I just didnt have time to use that app much. Well anyone that uses ZB knows how complex it [...]
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  • Cris’s new masterclass at Autodesk University – FREE
    We are very proud to announce that for the first time ever, a tutorial developed by famed 3d-palace instructor Cris Robson has been commissioned by Autodesk for use as one of its own Masterclasses.  Needless to say that we are delighted at this and as it gives 3d-palace trainer Cris the status of Approved Autodesk [...]
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  • Scorpion Gun Emplacement – Work Commences
    As a prelude to getting to work on Rodimus Prime – a job I really need to do in order to mark the robot tutorial world with my cat like stink – I have been working on what was (laughably) supposed to be a short set on building a transforming scorpion gun emplacement.  I am [...]
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