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These are assignments that my students are working on this year in various computer programs.  Feel free to follow along.  You will find that brushes, textures and jpgs are included on the page; simply right click and save to your computer.

Stasiuk

 
 

Flash Animation

Maya Animation

The Snowman vrs. the Spaceship

bullet 1 - Maya Interface for Beginners
bullet2 - Setting up a New Project in Maya
bullet3 - Make the Two Steps of your Temple
bullet4 - Making the Temple Columns
bullet5 - Outliner Panel and Duplicating
bullet6 - Make the Temple Roof
bullet7 - Add colour and texture to your temple
bullet8 - Adding a checker pattern to the stairs
bullet9 - Add a cloud texture to a flat surface

clouds jpg::

bullet10 - Make a Snowman in Maya
bullet11 - finishing touches to the Snowman
bullet12 - Create a Polygonal Spaceship
bullet13 - Use Lattice to tweak the Polygonal spaceship and delete History
bullet14 - Use Photoshop to personalize the Spaceship Texture

Texture for Space ship:

bullet15 - Add the Texture to the Spaceship with Planar Mapping
bullet16 - Add Frames and change the Frame Rate in Maya
bullet17 - very basic concepts of animating in Maya
bullet18 - create a motion path in Maya for your Spaceship
bullet19 - Use the EP Curve tool and Revolve to make a bomb
bullet20 - Attach the bomb to the Spaceship and duplicate to drop bomb
bullet21 - Use a polygonal sphere for the sky and sculpt geometry tool for ground

wintery clouds jpg:

bullet22 - Add Lights and Cast Shadows in Maya
bullet23 - set up a static camera in Maya
bullet24 - make smoke in Maya with a particle emmiter and ramp
bullet25 - How to create a cartoon bounce in Maya
bullet 26 - Make anything with Polygons in Maya
bullet 27 - Part 1 Explode the Bomb
bullet 27 - Part 2 Explode the Bomb
bullet 28 - How to Software Render in Maya
bullet 29 - How to Hardware Render in Maya
bullet 30 - Compositing Maya with Adobe Premiere Pro
bullet31 - (Part 1) Forward Kinematics vrs Inverse Kinematics and Parenting
bullet31 - (Part 2) Basic concepts working with joints and bones
bullet31 - (Part 3) Create a skeleton for your character using joints and mirror
bullet31 -(Part 4) Joint Orientation and Reverse foot skeleton

 

 

Photoshop

The CD Cover Project

Use the following videos to create this effects packed CD design for your favorite band.

bullet Lesson 1 - assignment explained, adjust with levels and resize image
bullet Lesson 2 - tear a hole through the paper
bullet Lesson 3 - use warp to reshape your photo
bullet Lesson 4 - create a curled over corner
bullet Lesson 5 - Nicks and Tears in paper
bullet Lesson 6 - Burnt paper effect
bullet Lesson 7 - create realistic fire - Download Fire Brushes Here
bullet Lesson 8 - create flame shaped like an animal, person or object
bullet Lesson 9 - making smoke
bullet Lesson 10 - reflected fire light
bullet Lesson 11 - how to find free fonts, brushes, and textures and how to install.

Find the font for the lesson here: Boris Black Boxx font

Find the crack brush here: Free crack brush from Hawksmont.com

The texture I used here: Free texture from grungetextures.com

bullet Lesson 12a - Create a title cut in half with lightning
bullet Lesson 12b - cutting text with lightning
bullet Lesson 13 - final video turns text into a ribbon