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Lighting with the Rim
 

Part 4 Lighting

The rim light is what helps to seperate the objects from their environment and defines a clean silhouette.

 
Kai Pedersen May 17 2006 02:24 1821
Texturing the Pear
 

Part 2 Texturing

The Pear has a matte surface with occasional bruises and dents, so you need to be able to place dents in a semi random way with both color and indentation.

 
Kai Pedersen May 17 2006 09:23 2304
Texturing the Cherry
 

Part 2 Texturing

Texturing the cherry’s surface is relatively simple using color and specularity to capture its essence.

 
Kai Pedersen May 17 2006 03:56 2450
Modeling the Banana
 

Part 1 Modeling

Modeling the Banana takes a different approach using splines with NURBS and deformers to generate the base polygonal mesh.

 
Kai Pedersen May 17 2006 14:09 3666
Modeling the Cherry
 

Part 1 Modeling

Modeling the cherry covers basic polygonal modeling using a simple starting shape and common tools.

 
Kai Pedersen May 17 2006 09:45 5370
Modeling the Pear
 

Part 1 Modeling

Modeling the Pear covers using simple primitive shapes and connecting them together to make a more complex organic shape using polygon modeling.

 
Kai Pedersen May 17 2006 09:23 3848
Comedy Channel Promo, Part 01
 

Intro to Comedy Channel Promo Project

A quick introduction to the project looking at what will be accomplished and the general focus.

This intro movie also covers to overall process involved in creating a motion graphics promo, including discussion of scripting the sequence, defining render settings, and organizing project files.

 
Rob Garrott May 16 2006 13:10 37783
Basic Xpresso - Adapters
 

Matrix2Vector, Real2Vector, Universal

Adapter nodes allow you to convert one type of data to another very easily.

 
Kai Pedersen Apr 19 2006 06:55 1551
Basic Xpresso - General
 

Bitmap, Object, Result

General nodes are the nodes that allow us to bring in data whether it be from an object, sound file, bitmap, or even a constant value.

 
Kai Pedersen Apr 19 2006 10:45 1729
Basic Xpresso - Calculate
 

Math, C.O.F.F.E.E., Range Mapper

Calculate nodes are the key to making expresso change data. Anytime you want to combine values, change how the range of one value alters another values range, or simply make a value negative.

 
Kai Pedersen Apr 19 2006 17:03 2496
Basic Xpresso - Logic
 

Compare, Condition, Order

The logic nodes allow us to have xpresso consider different values and then choose an action that should be taken depending on the criteria set.

 
Kai Pedersen Apr 19 2006 04:58 1991
Basic Xpresso - Bool
 

Bool, NOT, Switch

Bool nodes allow you to alternate between 1 and 0 easily, typically this is used for turning things on or off.

 
Kai Pedersen Apr 19 2006 04:46 1520
CINEMA 4D / Softimage Integration, Part 3: Tools
 

Shows how to integrate CINEMA 4D into a Softimage Production Pipeline.

Shows how to intergrate CINEMA 4D into a Softimage Production Pipeline. Reviews the different modeling tools and how to set hotkeys for them.

 
DaShawn Hall Apr 17 2006 03:43 1793
CINEMA 4D / Softimage Integration, Part 2: Modules
 

Shows how to integrate CINEMA 4D into a Softimage Production Pipeline.

Shows how to intergrate CINEMA 4D into a Softimage Production Pipeline. Talks about the location of the four basic Softimage modules in CINEMA 4D. Highlights animation, modeling and rendering tools.

 
DaShawn Hall Apr 17 2006 03:43 2163
CINEMA 4D / Softimage Integration, Part 1: Hotkeys
 

Shows how to integrate CINEMA 4D into a Softimage Production Pipeline.

Shows how to intergrate CINEMA 4D into a Softimage Production Pipeline. Reviews how to change Cinema 4D hotkeys to reflect Softimage hotkeys.

 
DaShawn Hall Apr 17 2006 02:13 2956
Using a Wacom Tablet with CINEMA 4D.
 

Shows how to setup a Wacom Tablet to be used in CINEMA 4D.

Shows how to setup a Wacom Tablet to be used in CINEMA 4D. Talks about the different types of Wacom Tablets. Shows how to set hotkeys for the Grip Pen and, if applicable on the tablet itself.

 
DaShawn Hall Apr 17 2006 03:04 15220
HyperNURBS
 

Subdivisions, Weighting, Ngons

HyperNURBS go almost hand in hand with polygonal modeling, especially if you are making anything with organic curves and the like. Unlike other NURBS objects this one uses any polygonal object including polygon generator objects to do its thing.

 
Kai Pedersen Apr 17 2006 14:16 4827
NURBS, Part 5
 

Bezier NURBS

Bezier Nrubs are different in that they don’t use splines to define their shape, but rather a grid built right into the object is used to define a more complex subdivision of geometry.

 
Kai Pedersen Apr 17 2006 03:01 3513
NURBS, Part 4
 

Sweep NURBS

Sweeping one object along another allows us to easily create complex wiry shapes easily.

 
Kai Pedersen Apr 17 2006 07:56 4513
NURBS, Part 2
 

Lathe

The Lathe NURBS object is used for revolving a spline around to make complex rings and springs.

 
Kai Pedersen Apr 17 2006 02:15 4505
NURBS, Part 1
 

Extrude NURBS and Caps

Each NURBS object is pretty unique so make sure to watch all five parts to see the different NURBS objects in action.  This one Covers the ExtrudeNURBS object, and how to use the caps controls found on most NURBS objects.

 
Kai Pedersen Apr 17 2006 07:11 6708
Rim Light Shader
 

Simulating Rim Lighting with a Shader

This tutorial looks at how to be more creative with shaders to actually simulate effects such as lighting on the surface of an object. 

The Layer Shader is key in making this effect possible, so make sure you’ve looked at the Layer Shader video, and familiarized yourself with Effects Shaders as you’ll be mixing a few together to achieve this effect.

 
Kai Pedersen Apr 17 2006 12:05 5334
NURBS, Part 3
 

Loft NURBS

The Loft NURBS is handy for both creating caps on single splines, or connectin several different splines together for very complex transiitions

 
Kai Pedersen Apr 17 2006 05:06 4481
Basic Table Scene
 

Introduction

A quick introduction to the project looking at what will be accomplished and the general focus.

For this project the entire process, modeling, texturing, animating, lighting, and rendering.  Being a basic project, the focus is to keep it simple so no advanced polygon modeling or shader and lighting techniques are needed to do this, only generator objects are used in the modeling of the scene, basic textures and shaders are used, and lights with shadow and visibility.

 
Kai Pedersen Apr 14 2006 00:38 28277
Lighting with the Fill
 

Part 4 Lighting

The Fill Light adds enough illumination that you can see details in areas that would otherwise be black.

 
Kai Pedersen Apr 14 2006 05:32 3003
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