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THIS BLOG MAINLY CONSISTS OF NOTES I MAKE WHEN LEARNING SOFTWARE, ALL COMPILED IN ONE PLACE - HOPEFULLY IT MAY BE HELPFUL TO YOU TOO!

Tutorial: Maya – How to select and manipulate objects.

Michael

Jan 28, 20183 min read

Tutorial: Maya – How to select and manipulate objects.

(Noted from Lynda Tutorial) SELECT, MOVE, ROTATE AND SCALE Selection tool: Q Left Click to select an object. Click empty space or another...

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DIGITAL COMPOSITING: Camera Mapping in 3DS Max

Michael

Nov 1, 20163 min read

DIGITAL COMPOSITING: Camera Mapping in 3DS Max

Camera mapping is a technique whereby a flat photo is projected onto 3d geometry. This gives us a limited ability to turn the flat photo...

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Michael

Oct 18, 20163 min read

DIGITAL COMPOSITING: 3D Camera tracking with After Effects

After effects cs6 has a 3D Camera Tracker effect. Before CS6, Matchmover was the best program to use.Match Mover still has some...

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DIGITAL COMPOSITING: 3d Camera Tracking with Matchmover.

Michael

Oct 18, 20164 min read

DIGITAL COMPOSITING: 3d Camera Tracking with Matchmover.

Matchmover is a free piece of software from autodesk used for tracking footage, to be taken into a 3D package such as 3DS Max or Maya....

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Michael

Apr 2, 20161 min read

Personal Branding and Resume

I recently created a series of branding materials for use when applying for jobs – two business cards and an infographic style resume...

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Michael

Feb 17, 20165 min read

ZBrush Workflow in 2016

ZBrush is a great program but with so many features and it’s constantly being updated and improved upon, its hard to know where to start...

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Tutorial: ZBrush -Hard surface modelling techniques.

Michael

Feb 17, 20164 min read

Tutorial: ZBrush -Hard surface modelling techniques.

ZBrush is great for organic sculpts, but can also be used with a little wizardry to create hard surface objects such as weapons, armour...

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Michael

Feb 15, 20166 min read

Tutorial: ZBrush – Hair and Fur

There are several ways to create hair and fur in ZBrush. Each method has its own advantages and disadvantages, and unique visual style....

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Michael

Jan 18, 20164 min read

Tutorial: ZBrush ZModeller Brush

ZModeller brush is an alternative to low poly modelling in a dedicated package such as 3DS Max, Blender etc. It isn’t designed as a...

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Tutorial: Unity Animation 3: Character Setup

Michael

Jul 23, 20153 min read

Tutorial: Unity Animation 3: Character Setup

These notes are taken from the Unity video series available on their website. This post deals with the tools available for adjusting the...

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Tutorial: Unity Animation 2 – The Animator Component

Michael

Jul 23, 20156 min read

Tutorial: Unity Animation 2 – The Animator Component

This post contains notes on Unity’s tutorial video series, pertaining to the Animator component of the Animation System. 1: THE ANIMATOR...

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Tutorial: Unity Animation 1 – The Animation window

Michael

Jul 23, 20154 min read

Tutorial: Unity Animation 1 – The Animation window

The following notes are taken from the series of animation tutorials available from Unity’s Homepage. 1: THE ANIMATION VIEW – Unity’s...

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Michael

Jul 19, 20156 min read

Tutorial: Unity Basics – Nav Mesh Pathfinding system

The NavMesh system is used to provide rudimentary pathfinding for enemies and NPCs in your games. It generates a NavMesh Grid based on...

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3D Tutorial: Using Topogun to Retopologise a hi-poly model

Michael

Feb 9, 20144 min read

3D Tutorial: Using Topogun to Retopologise a hi-poly model

Topogun is a great little program for retopologising High poly Zbrush meshes into low poly meshes which can then be imported into 3D...

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Michael

Oct 3, 20132 min read

Tutorial – Unity Basics: User Interface

These are notes made from the Tutorial videos supplied on the Unity game engine website. USER INTERFACE There are five display windows in...

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Michael

Nov 2, 20123 min read

ZBrush Tutorial: Basics + Hotkeys

This is a condensed reference guide from the video tutorials available on the Pixologic website. ————-GETTING STARTED——————— Ctrl + N–...

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