Modeling Tips & Tricks for Newbies

Modeling Tips

Author Shaun Keenan of cgtuts+ has a series of short videos aimed at users who are fairly new to modeling or CG in general. He covers a wide range of topics from breaking down facial geometry and cutting holes in meshes, to the importance of reference, and the benefits of creating your own asset library.  This [...]

ICE Shape Driving for facial Rig in Softimage

ICE Shape Driving for facial Rig in Softimage

In this tutorial “Paul Smith” going to show you mixing shapes in ICE using scene parameters such as rotation and translation within ICE rather than expressions. ICE Shape Driving for facial Rig in Softimage From Paul Smith: ICE rigging for this kind of deformation is incredibly useful as the next time you want to do [...]

Rendering After Effects Projects Using Terminal

After Effects Terminal Rendering

In this video “James Zanoni” talks about Terminal rendering, He shows How to Render After effects projects using Terminal. Rendering After Effects Projects Using Terminal From James Zanoni: This tutorial will guide you through using Terminal Rendering in After Effects. This will allow you to : – Render while still working on your After Effects project file. [...]

Using Photofly 2.0 for Visual Effects

Photofly 2.0

As an introduction to the concept of using PhotoFly 2 for Visual Effects, Samuel Conloguelooks at one possible use for PhotoFly in VFX using it to create quick depth maps for the pipeline. Photofly 2.0 The photographs can be shot with any standard digital camera, as long as you follow some shooting guidelines. The Photo Scene Editor for [...]