Tag Archives: technical
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
Decode Programming with our Beginner’s Guide 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 […]
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 What judges look for in winning student rendering challenge entries 3drender.com – Three D lighting and rendering including challenges The Science of Rendering Photorealistic CGI […]
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
The information originally posted here can now be found via this link, heading Tutorials, Magazines, Links and Resources on the dropdown menu. https://therese3d.com/tutorials-magazines-links-and-resources/
3D and VFX
WORLD VFX DAY 2026 VFX in 2021: What Works, Who Works & What’s Changing Forever Creating a High Quality VFX Sequence on a Budget Tutorial – Creating a Stylized CG Scene In this tutorial, I walk through the process of creating a stylized CG scene from scratch. I cover: The order of steps I […]
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 Cloud editing costs demystified The Biggest Bloopers and Editing Errors That Have Been Caught in Major Films Throughout the Years When it comes to film […]
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 art and animation 