Maya Animation with After Effects Compositing
Here, we take a 3d animation in Maya, add enhancements such as light and shadows, and. use After Effects to adjust the lightness and darkness of the piece to create a single cohesive composite.
Applying Textures in Maya: Brick Wall
The tutorial covers the basics of creating materials in Maya. Procedures covered in this tutorial include: The Hypershade, The UV Texture Editor, Planar Mapping and scale adjustments.
Ambient Occlusion Pass
Ambient Occlusion Pass This is a simple way to create an ambient occlusion pass in Maya 2012. Ambient occlusion is best described as the dark subtle shaded regions where two or more forms meet. Its used to create realistic shadow detail in our models. Duplicate your model. Give your model a new Lambert …
Mech Winter: Digital Painting Part I
This is part 1 of 2 video tutorial that covers various methods for digitally painting a background on a rendered CG image. It covers atmospheric perspective, mountains and placing and adjusting textures, and lighting effects. Part 2 will take the existing image and will turn it into a winter scene. Feel free to download the …
A Quick Homepage Design
This tutorial, shows you how to create custom homepages from screen snapshots of websites that you already like. I usually stick with the large companies homepages because of their design and simplicity. In the examples here, I’ll be using the Jaguar site and the Mini Cooper site. I usually show this technique to people who …
Mech Winter: Digital Painting Part II
This tutorial is part 2 of a video tutorial that features a digital painting technique over a Maya Mental Ray Render. In this tutorial, we will cover how to create snow texture, shadow, atmospheric perspective and color adjustments.
Level 2 Page Design: Dreamweaver
This tutorial shows you how to design a Level 2 page that is similar in design to your homepage. It is very important that these second level pages match or look similar to the homepage. This tutorial will show you how to use common elements such as your logo, layout, color, and various design …
Gallery Page Design Video Tutorial
This video tutorial shows you how to create a gallery using hotspots in Dreamweaver. Very easy, but quite effective. I apologize in advance, there is not dialogue, just screen instructions. It was one of my first tutorials, and I thought it would be cool to exclude the voice over. Knowing what I know now, I …
Installing Lightbox Gallery into your HTML Website
Click image to view tutorial. Or Click Here >> This tutorial shows you how to install the Lightbox Gallery into your HTML website. The method we use is simple and is made for someone who doesn’t have much experience with code. You do however need to know basic information, like 1) you need to know …
Adding an Embed Video Code to an HTML Webpage Image
Many people wonder how to insert the “embed” video code on to a static image in HTML. This tutorial shows you how to place an embed video code from sites like Youtube and Vimeo, and shows how to place the code on to an HTML image. The method is pretty easy, so hopefully it helps …
Connecting to GoDaddy Server – Using Adobe Dreamweaver CS3
This video tutorial shows you how to logon to a server using Dreamweaver CS3. It was created to help support my website class where students set up website portfolios, many of them have little or no web experience. Since many of them are new to HTML and the web, it was important to make this …
Creating a Storyboard Animatic: Flash CS3
This tutorial covers how to create a storybaord animating in Flash CS3. It will cover proper file set up, keyframing and publishing. You will need Flash to watch the video. View the tutorial here >>
Custom Brick Wall Textures in Maya
This video tutorial shows you how to create a brick wall in Maya using premade textures, and it also discusses the basics of the UV Texture Editor and Maya’s Hypershade.
Importing Sound to the Maya Timeline
This tutorial shows you how to add a WAV sound file to the Maya timeline so you can animate dialogue . It talks about file format and how some WAV files might not work when you first use them and it also instructs you on how to import the file on to the Maya timeline. …
Rendering in Maya & Making Quicktime Movies in After Effects
This video tutorial shows you how to render an image sequence in Maya and how to create Quicktime Movies in After Effects.
Lifedrawing Demonstration: The Gesture
A gesture drawing is the foundation of lifedrawing. Done quickly, we use this type of drawing to capture the essence of a pose, while at the same time capturing proportion, exaggeration, flow and movement. This video shows the basic process I use to create gesture drawings from the model. It will also cover line of …
