Tag Archives: maya
Texturing and Shading
SHADING is a term used for applying renderable colours, surface bumps, transparency, reflection, shine, luminescence, glow or similar attributes. Shading defines the look of your model when it is rendered. Shaders are based on nodes that hold attributes that define the shader. TEXTURES give objects relevance to their surroundings, believability, quality. Textures are applied to shader […]
Modelling Process Diary
MODELLING and SCULPTING Meet the Experts: Pixar Animation Studios, The OpenSubdiv Project Two dimensional is having width and height but no depth. Three dimensional is having width, height and depth like a solid object. Blender is a professional, free and open-source 3D computer graphics softwaretoolset used for creating animated films, visual effects, art, 3D printed […]
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 […]
Tutorials, Magazines, Links and Resources
The information originally posted here can now be found via this link. https://therese3d.com/tutorials-magazines-links-and-resources/
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 […]
Post Production
‘It is so important that we see things that are about us, that talk to us, that make us think about our lives’ Gillian Armstrong, The Age, 18 September 2017 The Biggest Bloopers and Editing Errors That Have Been Caught in Major Films Throughout the Years When it comes to film production, the technology used […]
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 […]
Animation
Earth is screaming through space at 1.3 million mph. A simple animation by a former NASA scientist shows what that looks like. That’s because the Earth is orbiting the sun, which is orbiting the centre of the galaxy, which is barreling through the cosmic wind of radiation released during the Big Bang. A simple animation […]
3d art and animation 