Category Digital

Photography
COVID-19 Resources for Photographers The world as we knew it has paused for the moment, perhaps changed forever. As for many in the arts, the global pandemic is posing huge and unfolding challenges for the entire photography community, from individual practitioners, to collectives and agencies, as well as global institutions and organizations. The COVID-19 situation impacts […]

Colour
Colour is how we perceive the difference in the wavelengths of light. There are three primary colours of light, red, green and blue. At the heart of colour theory is the colour wheel, which was created in the late 17th century by Sir Isaac Newton. Best known for his physics breakthroughs, Newton mapped the colour spectrum […]

Dynamics
MY REFERENCE FOR LEARNING and SOME RESOURCES I’M COLLECTING ALONG THE WAY Maya’s node based architecture, nodes with attributes that are connected gives Maya its flexible procedural qualities. Each node performs some operation on the data that is passing through it with each node having attributes to accomplish a specific task. Dynamics is the complex […]

Rendering Process Diary
Lighting my first project. A Mechanical Arm which must be fixed to a stationary position. The phong shader I chose for the walls, when adding lights there was an unnatural reflection. Changing the shader to a Lambert in the Attribute Editor solved this problem, not realise how different the shader textures would look with the […]

Texture Process Diary
3D TEXTURING PROCESS DIARY Texturing is the process of applying the surface qualities to objects such as colours and texture, assigning 2D images to 3D objects. Notes from Lanier, L., 2011. Maya studio projects. Texturing and lighting. Sybex, Indianapolis, Ind. p123 UV snapshot and bitmap texture resolutions of 512, 1024, 2048 are resolutions commonly used in […]

Tutorials, Magazines, Links and Resources
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