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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!
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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...
Michael
Jan 28, 20183 min read
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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...
Michael
Nov 1, 20163 min read
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DIGITAL COMPOSITING: HDR Lighting
HDR Light mapping is a technique used to get accurate lighting results when putting 3d models or characters into a photo or video scene. ...
Michael
Oct 26, 20165 min read
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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...
Michael
Feb 17, 20165 min read
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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....
Michael
Feb 15, 20166 min read
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Tutorial: Z-Brush Mannequins
Mannequins are a feature built into Zbrush for rapidly creating humanoid character shapes, and posing them in a scene. They function...
Michael
Jan 19, 20162 min read
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Tutorial: ZBrush – Using Dynamesh
Dynamesh is a feature used in ZBrush to instantly regenerate a workable topology over the surface of your currently selected Tool or...
Michael
Jan 19, 20163 min read
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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...
Michael
Jan 18, 20164 min read
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Tutorial: ZBrush – All about Tools, Subtools.
TOOLS Every model you sculpt in Zbrush is considered a ‘tool’. When you first open Zbrush, the only thing visible is the Tool column, as...
Michael
Jan 17, 20162 min read
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CelAction 2D Tutorial Extra: Vid Tutorials by James Butler
James Butler is a CelAction Rigger and Layout Artist who’s past credits include Peppa Pig, Mr. Bean and Little Kingdom. He is currently...
Michael
Aug 26, 20151 min read
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Tutorial – Unity: Scripting Conventions, Terminology and Syntax
Scripting in Unity can take the form of C# or Javascript. The following tutorials are all on C#, and are noted from the videos on Unity’s...
Michael
Aug 20, 20155 min read
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CelAction 2D Tutorial 4: Animating stuff!
Now that we have covered Here are a variety of tips and tutorials more directly related to the actual animation process in Celction....
Michael
Aug 9, 20158 min read
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CelAction 2D Tutorial 3: BUILD MODE – Group Shapes & Shape Links
Continuing on with the Build mode tutorials, we will look at shape groups. When you have a collection of mouths that you want to switch...
Michael
Aug 8, 20152 min read
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CelAction 2D Tutorial 2 – BUILD MODE – Building Actors
Actors are the characters, objects and backgrounds that are used in your animation. They can be complicated with hundreds of moveable...
Michael
Aug 7, 20156 min read
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CelAction2D Tutorial 1: BASICS
Welcome to my tutorial series on CelAction 2d, an industry standard animation package designed for 2d puppet/skeleton based animation....
Michael
Aug 6, 20158 min read
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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...
Michael
Jul 19, 20156 min read
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Tutorial: Unity Basics – UI
A selection of notes from the Unity Website training videos. This is for the Default Canvas system included with Unity 4.6 and above. 1:...
Michael
Jul 16, 20157 min read
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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...
Michael
Feb 9, 20144 min read
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Tutorial: Lighting Tips
The following tips are just little extras I picked up in a recent lecture regarding lighting your scenes. These all apply to rendering in...
Michael
Nov 17, 20132 min read
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DIGITAL COMPOSITING – Green Screening (Keying) in After Effects.
Note – this is an older tutorial. A more recent one with newer information is available here: https://michaelarbuthnot.wordpress.com/2016...
Michael
Oct 25, 20134 min read
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