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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 […]

Programming

w3schools.com: The language for building web pages Women Who Code:  Sydney and Meetup Sydney Python User Group (SyPy) Monthly Meetup EAT 3D Autodesk Maya Scripting – An introduction and Applications Luiz Kruel LEARN COED the HARD WAY  THE NEW BOSTON LESTER BANKS:  LEARN ARTIST FRIENDLY PYTHON FOR MAYA FROM DHRUV GOVIL Quality Coding, Inc.  YouTube STACK […]

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 […]

Lighting and Rendering

This post is made up of information that I have collected and continually adding to along my journey about lighting, shaders, rendering. Top 10 reasons to take part in student rendering challenges 3drender.com – Three D lighting and rendering including challenges The Science of Rendering Photorealistic CGI Disney’s Practical Guide to Path Tracing CG Channel.com MAXDEPTH Resolution Revolution Redux: […]

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 […]

Animation Process Diary

What is Animation? Animation is not necessarily the re-creation of living things; it can be the exaggeration of living things to create more vivid forms. Animation shows us change over time, which could be the position, size, colour or shape. It uses the principle of persistence of vision, such as the Zoetrope to create the illusion […]

Tutorials, Magazines, Links and Resources

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3D and VFX

VFX in 2021: What Works, Who Works & What’s Changing Forever Tutorial – Creating a Stylized CG Scene n this tutorial, I walk through the process of creating a stylized CG scene from scratch. I cover: The order of steps I took to create the image The most important phases in each step The techniques and […]

Camera, Lighting and Motion Capture

ALSO   PHOTOGRAPHY LIGHTING and RENDERING The story is told through the camera, being used to manipulate the elements while letting the viewer know what they need to focus on and how they might feel. Get out there and have a go. The camera is used to manipulate the elements of the scene, focusing viewers on what […]

3D printing

A San Francisco startup is 3D-printing entire houses in just one day TedX promo CNN Explains: 3-D printing How MakerBot’s 3D scanner works The Powers of 3D Printing from iiNet Newsletter Posted on July 20, 2016 People are talking a lot about 3D printing these days, even though it’s far from a new idea since the first […]