Digital Tutors – Transferring Animation with MEL
In this Maya tutorial, we’ll learn how to create a tool that lets us transfer animation to selected objects, all with the help of MEL. We’ll start by creating a user-friendly UI. We’ll then learn how...
View ArticleDigital Tutors – Creative Development: Painting a Fantasy Environment in...
In this Photoshop tutorial we will learn how to paint a fantasy landscape. We’ll start from a basic sketch and slowly work our way to the final painting. We’ll be looking at different techniques...
View ArticleDigital Tutors – Lighting Your Illustration with Blending Modes in Photoshop CC
Throughout this Photoshop tutorial we’ll explore a handful of blending modes that artists use on a daily basis to light illustrations. You’ll begin to see the flexibility and range that both layer and...
View ArticleDigital Tutors – Creating Fire and Smoke using Maya Fluid Effects
In this Maya tutorial, we will learn how to create fire and smoke with Maya 3D Fluids – Fire and Smoke. To make our effect more powerful and realistic we will first understand the science behind these...
View ArticleDigital Tutors – Principles of Composition for Motion Designers
In this series of tutorials, we will learn how the principles of composition can help us to become better communicators as motion designers. Often times, motion designers can overlook the importance of...
View ArticleDigital Tutors – Keys to Amazing Graphic Design Layouts
When a designer sits down to create any type of project, they have one goal in mind. Communicate a message to my target audience. But if you’ve ever wondered why design elements end up where they do,...
View ArticleDigital Tutors – Discovering the Use of Weldments and Sheet Metal Design in...
Throughout this SolidWorks tutorial we’ll dive into the creation of a prairie windmill vane. This tutorial is not only the virtual construction of a vintage windmill vane assembly but a demonstration...
View ArticleDigital Tutors – Simulating a Volcano Blast in Maya 2014
In this Maya tutorial we are going to simulate a pyroclastic volcanic eruption using Maya Fluids and nParticles. Throughout these lessons you’ll explore the important attributes of fluids to simulate...
View ArticleDigital Tutors – Learning to Work Quickly and Efficiently in Rhino 5
Throughout this Rhino tutorial we’ll explore valuable techniques to working more efficiently in Rhino 5. We’ll utilize a combination of keyboard shortcuts and pop-up menus to work quickly to create a...
View ArticleDigital Tutors – Designing Custom Sites Using Child Themes in WordPress and CSS
In this WordPress tutorial, we’ll create a child theme for the WordPress website platform. We’ll take an existing theme as a starting point and use Firefox Web Developer tools and its live preview to...
View ArticleDigital Tutors – The Anatomy of Email Design in HTML
Throughout these lessons we’ll learn the anatomy of great email creative and how to design, develop and test a highly engaging campaign across both desktop and mobile viewing environments. You’ll gain...
View ArticleDigital Tutors – Creating a Kitchen Visualization in 3ds Max and V-Ray
Throughout this 3ds Max and V-Ray tutorial we’ll be creating a kitchen visualization. We’ll start by breaking down CAD plans and creating kitchen blocks. Next, we’ll add final details our kitchen model...
View ArticleDigital Tutors – Creating an Animated Paper Folding Effect in Maya
Throughout this Maya tutorial, we’ll learn the process of how to create a paper folding animation. Utilizing Maya’s Geometry cache we’ll run a dynamic deformer, nCloth simulations and vertex animation...
View ArticleDigital Tutors – Designing Futuristic Menus in Illustrator
In this series of tutorials we will follow a step by step process for creating futuristic menus in Illustrator. We begin by watching a clip that the menus will eventually be composited into and get an...
View ArticleDigital Tutors – Your First Day with WordPress CMS
In this WordPress CMS tutorial we’ll learn how to download and install WordPress on your computer to start creating WordPress sites locally. WordPress is one of the most popular Content Management...
View ArticleDigital Tutors – CSS Positioning
Understanding CSS positioning can be tricky, especially for beginners to CSS. It is also essential to understand if you want to be able to build complex layouts. In this CSS tutorial we’ll learn about...
View ArticleDigital Tutors – Typography for the Web
Typography is one of the most important elements of designing a website. Taking care to set good type on a website can increase not only readability, but comprehension and retention of information. If...
View ArticleDigital Tutors – Applying Responsive Retrofitting Techniques to a Fixed-Width...
Throughout these CSS tutorials, we’ll explore responsive retrofitting strategies and techniques to control the appearance and behavior of fixed-width sites across multiple screen sizes and devices...
View ArticleDigital Tutors – Introduction to Particle Systems in Unreal Engine
In this series of Unreal Engine tutorials we’ll learn about how to create particle effects and discuss some good practices to using each type of particle effect in Unreal Engine 4. To begin we’ll...
View ArticleDigital Tutors – Quick Start to JavaScript: Volume 1
Throughout this series of Javascript tutorials we’ll learn how to write the programming language from scratch, so you can start creating code of your own. Quick Starts are a series of specially...
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