Discover the VFX of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

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Rogue One: A Star Wars story is about to hit cinemas, so what better way to celebrate than to fill an issue with insights, art and training from the galaxy far, far way. 

If you have a passion for VFX and Star Wars then you will love our exclusive feature with Industrial Light & Magic, as John Knoll explains the challenges faced when updating the iconic look of A New Hope for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.

There’s more great Star Wars content in issue 216 too, as we meet the Obsidian Entertainment art team who recreated Mos Eisley in Unreal Engine 4. They reveal the modelling and texture tricks needed to bring the Millennium Falcon and more to life.

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Plus, we meet two passionate Star Wars artists who love droids and Star Destroyers! Pick up tips on using Autodesk’s ART renderer to create amazing Star Wars droids, as well learn the basics of kit-bashing spaceships in 3ds Max.

Tutorials this issue have a Star Wars theme, as we reveal how to master the basics of the ZBrush concept pipeline to create Darth Vader, and harness Substance Painter to texture a droid; in this case Rogue One’s K-2SO. As a bonus, you can download our artist’s model to texture yourself!

More training includes…

  • Master Cinema 4D’s new Object Tracker
  • Advice for modelling foliage for video games
  • Create tileable textures in Blender
  • Render transparent materials in V-Ray
  • Create a gloss black object in Maya

Learn to create foliage for video games in Unreal Engine

Learn to create foliage for video games in Unreal Engine

Issue 216 also takes a first look at Oculus Medium, the new in-VR sculpting toolkit launching this December. And there’s VFX insights and software news and reviews to get up-to-date with!

Discover Oculus Medium, the in-VR sculpting app

Discover Oculus Medium, the in-VR sculpting app

And, once again, we’ve partnered with Plural Sight to offer a free video course. This issue we offer tips and tricks to create stunning VFX in Maya. The download includes the full video course and project files.

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Ian Dean
Editor, Digital Arts & 3D

Ian Dean is Editor, Digital Arts & 3D at Creativebloq, and the former editor of many leading magazines. These titles included ImagineFX, 3D World and leading video game title Official PlayStation Magazine. In his early career he wrote for music and film magazines including Uncut and SFX. Ian launched Xbox magazine X360 and edited PlayStation World. For Creative Bloq, Ian combines his experiences to bring the latest news on AI, digital art and video game art and tech, and more to Creative Bloq, and in his spare time he doodles in Procreate, ArtRage, and Rebelle while finding time to play Xbox and PS5. He's also a keen Cricut user and laser cutter fan, and is currently crafting on Glowforge and xTools M1.