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Photography

 ALSO MY CAMERA, LIGHTING AND MOTION CAPTURE POST Some ideas for my venture into photography, not sure where or how to start.  There is so much information available, so many fantastic photographers.  Where do I start, the camera, the shot, technical information?  The story is told through the camera which is used to manipulate the […]

Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Games and such things

  Metaverse: Open for business? Virtual Production Primer  |  A look at the key terms and concepts involved in virtual production XR What Is XR, and How Is It Radically Transforming Industries? Autodesk to Acquire The Wild, Extended Reality (XR) Solutions Provider for Immersive and Collaborative Workspaces for Design and Construction VR VR VIRTUAL REALITY […]

HDR Images

High Dynamic Range Images – HDRI  HDRI (High Dynamic Range Imaging)  is a technology that expands the dynamic range of an image and shows details in both shadows and highlights. Dynamic Range is a range of brightness values that can be recorded on media (film, photographic plate, photographic paper) or on the matrix of a digital […]

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 […]

Drawing, Design and Creativity

DESIGN Composition refers to the layout of the different elements for the overall scene, using suitable sizes and positions of different images and assets. White space is not necessarily a white colour – it is any blank space and can be used effectively to emphasise key parts of the graphic.  Creating a frame and sequence that […]

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 […]

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 […]

Storyboards and Animatics

STORYBOARDS A storyboard is a graphic organizer that consists of illustrations or images displayed in sequence for the purpose of pre-visualizing a motion picture, animation, motion graphic or interactive media sequence. The storyboarding process, in the form it is known today, was developed at Walt Disney Productions during the early 1930s, after several years of similar processes being in use at Walt Disney and other animation studios. Storyboards are used for […]