Three Point Lighting Tutorial for 3d Animators
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWwt9f8WMAU Three point lighting can transform your remders! Suddenly flat dull pictures take on a 3d quality of their own. The basic principle is this, shine a keylight onto the subject and a fill light to the side, plus a backlight to...
Fast Daytime Lighting for 3d Animation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igaRa7XStoY In this 3d animation tutorial, I uncover a way of emulating indirect lighting and to a lesser extent ambient occlusion to greatly speed up your render times.
Fast Night Time Lighting for 3D Animation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1u1ZpPaCt5s The basic idea is to use moonlight with 4 distant lights each with their own colour shading and intensity, in order to simulate the slow to render indirect lighting that is available under global illumination. I go into how...
Easy 3D Coins Modelling Tutorial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Jtu1zupGBk How to make 3D coins. A beginners tutorial and a gentle introduction to the Vertex Modeler, UV Mapping, and texturing from a photo. Encourage yourself as a 3D modeller with this easy tutorial!
Easy Bullet Physics and Keyframes Tutorial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoLYynEVlKI In this example I show how to toss coins into a cardboard box. The emphasis is on being artistic rather than scientific. In other words I'm going to show you how to "cheat". How to focus on getting a result quickly, using a...
How to fake Random events in 3D Animation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2L6S_aY3Aq4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C91baReRYcg This 3d animation tutorial shows how to make Advertising Hoardings show random images changing over time. I use a single sequence of images resorted to an apparent random order,...
Metaball Modelling Example
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Hbbd4aS0Bc Scififunk opens the Metaball Modeler
How to Light up Windows in a 3D Night Scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVIt6XlX_mo The technique I'm showing here is to isolate the windows you wish to be on by cutting them out (and the immediate surroundings if you want that), and shining a bulb light onto the cut out (and only the cut out). This gives...
When Clothes Go Bad (How to fix for 3D animation)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbE67LFCVoU A fix for Carrara Poser figures if their clothes do not follow the figure they are conformed to anymore. This is one of those bugs in Carrara where if you know it, you are ok. If not you might be perplexed for some time. In...
Morph Targets Tutorial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7akhf5GFMAM Morph targets allow the animator to define an area of an object, move it and then animate (tween) between the two states (un-morphed and morphed). In Carrara the morph targets are keyframe animatable. Therefore you can take...
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