When creating a texture for your 3D object, photoshop might be your biggest help and this blog post will go over the basics of how to create seamless tiles. #1 Image size / resolution. Simple but important, the size of a texture is almost always ^2 (to the power of 2). Whilst I'm not knowledgeable … Continue reading Tile texturing in photoshop →

Ramsay Musallam is a chemistry teacher that through a life threatening situation learned three methods that when combined can spark and inspire learning. #1 Curiosity comes first: There's a popular saying that states "there are no stupid questions" which sometimes can seem really false. I believe that this statement doesn't come the topic of the … Continue reading 3 Rules to spark learning →

Hello There! To preface this blog post, I would definitely consider myself a procrastinator - in fact I'm typing this the day before a deadline. Granted some excuses could be legitimate such as injuries or illnesses; yet this idea specifically was given to me in a time of ease, where I was in a position … Continue reading “Inside the mind of a master procrastinator” – Tim Urban. My thoughts and review. →

This blog post will the first in a series of 3 posts analysing and reviewing a 3 part rigging tutorial. The tutorial in question is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOokoFED7QE Created by a youtube channel known as " k3dEx." My initial impressions of this aren't great. While it's basic rigging and the demonstration is clear, there's little to no … Continue reading Simple Character Rigging – Review. (1/3) →

The video that is linked is a demonstrative video on how to create a cup. I would like to add emphasis on demonstrative instead of tutorial as there are no verbal explanations as to what the tools do (just repetitive rock music), this is simply showcasing their ability. I will contrast that statement though by saying there's definitely a lot … Continue reading Reviewing a Maya tutorial. →

  This tutorial Miles and I made show how to bevel certain sections of a polygon (as opposed to the whole object), being useful for changing the curvature and smoothing out polygons. Bevel:  Creating a slope from a straight edge, the bevel tool is very useful for giving your objects rounded edges. However if you … Continue reading (Maya tutorial) Bevel, and how to bevel certain edges with the edge loop tool →

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjIxfVjsXuM This simple Maya video goes over the process of creating a well, demonstrating the effect of Bevel, Duplicate, Combine along with a whole array of others (Move tool is fairly prominent) in a way that doesn't feel complicated. I personally find these quite helpful as I'm able to watch and re-watch the video at … Continue reading 3D Modeling tutorial evaluation. →