Michael
TUTORIAL: UNREAL - Blend rocks into landscape
The transition from a rock mesh to the landscape can look very artificial and fake at the seam where they intersect. We can adjust our...
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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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Michael
- Jul 31
- 1 min
TUTORIAL: UNREAL - Procedural Moss/Snow on Rocks
This will show how to make rocks which when placed randomly, will have moss on top. Import your rock fbx files. Create a new material and...
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Michael
- Jul 31
- 3 min
TUTORIAL: UNREAL - Vertex Painting
Vertex Painting allows us to paint a secondary texture over parts of a static mesh, on top of the base texture. This is useful for adding...
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Michael
- Jul 16
- 2 min
TUTORIAL: Maya - UV Unwrapping
OPEN UV EDITOR 1. With Model selected, In the top toolbar go to UV > Open UV Editor. 2. This will open the UV Editor window and...
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Michael
- Jul 16
- 4 min
TUTORIAL: Maya - Rendering Animations
Rendering is the process by which we process the snapshot of a scene to its highest quality. This can take a long time, as lighting,...
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Michael
- Jul 16
- 4 min
Tutorial: MAYA - Playblasts
(Noted from Wade Neistadt’s video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=890_yXk7NZg) In Maya, you can do full renders of your scenes. These...
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Michael
- Jul 15
- 2 min
ZBrush: All about Polygroups
Polygroups are a useful way of grouping certain areas of a single subtool, to make selecting and working on them easier. You can...
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Michael
- Jul 15
- 2 min
ZBrush: All about Masks
Masking is a way of selecting part of a tool, so that you can isolate it. It can then be hidden, used to create polygroups, or sculpt on...
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Michael
- May 4
- 2 min
TUTORIAL - Create a Water Caustic Map in Photoshop.
Water Caustics are those bright, streaky highlights that appear in water, especially visible in swimming pools and beaches. The photo...
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Michael
- Feb 18, 2021
- 1 min
ARMAGEDDON! (Well, just a poster of it...
Creating lessons for my students, and this semester we are looking at creating posters in Photoshop. I created this poster tutorial as a...
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Michael
- Dec 19, 2020
- 1 min
New Blog!
Hi and welcome to the new blog. The old blog was getting a bit clunky and wordpress is a bit pish these days to be honest, so I thought...
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Michael
- Mar 11, 2018
- 4 min
Tutorial: Maya – Creating Polygon Models
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN NURBS AND POLYGONS Polygon models are made up of a large number of flat planes with straight line edges – the more...
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Michael
- Mar 1, 2018
- 3 min
Tutorial: Maya – Organising Scenes
Noted from Lynda Video Tutorial THE OUTLINER Either select Window > Outliner or in a multiple viewport view, click Panels > Panel >...
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Michael
- Jan 28, 2018
- 3 min
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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Michael
- Jan 18, 2018
- 2 min
Tutorial: Maya Basics and keys.
Interface and screen layout. Maya has a standard menu bar like many other programs. But there are soo many tabs that they cant all be...
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Michael
- Nov 9, 2016
- 4 min
DIGITAL COMPOSITING: Matte Painting Basics
Matte Painting is a broad discipline. It involves creating replacement backdrops for film footage, as a cheap alternative to creating...
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Michael
- Nov 2, 2016
- 4 min
DIGITAL COMPOSITING: Camera mapping in After Effects
Camera Mapping, as discussed in a previous tutorial is a method for creating a rudimentary 3D scene from a 2D photograph. We already...
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Michael
- Nov 1, 2016
- 3 min
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 26, 2016
- 5 min
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. ...
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Michael
- Oct 18, 2016
- 3 min
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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