Apr 25, 2010
Finding Inspiration
Written on June 28th, 2010Sometimes we can be walking down the street or driving in our car and then all of the sudden, BAM! An idea comes to you and you know the minute you get home you wanna start drawing it or modeling it or doing whatever creative thing you like to do. Other times, you know you want to express yourself creatively but the ideas just aren't coming to you. How do we solve this? We look for inspiration......Read More
Experimental Tutorial Player
Written on April 25th, 2010I have been working on this for a couple of weeks now, doing a few different things and I have gotten it to the point where I want to show it off to you guys. It doesn't have everything that I wanted it to have, but I think for now this will have to do. Anyways, what I am talking about it an improved video player for tutorials. Rather than just having the video and throwing it into a player I hav...Read More
Slideout Menus: The jQuery
Written on April 3rd, 2010Since we have gotten out menu set up and working for us, we can move on to adding in the jQuery. The jQuery to make this work is very simple and it is quite easy to change the basic animation. All we really need to do is use jQuery to start an animation when we hover over the menu item. There are tons of different things you can do in terms of animation, however I will just show you one. You shoul...Read More
Slideout Menus: The HTML and CSS
Written on March 31st, 2010Many websites make popout menus in their navigation. You know, the ones where you hover over one of the navigation links and you see more options appear. In many cases it just pops up, more rarely you will see the menu slide out or fade in or some animation that makes the appearance of those extra destinations smoother than before. This is what I am writing about in this post. I am going to show y...Read More
Some Updates
Written on March 6th, 2010It's been a while since my last post, haven't been too sure what to write about to be honest. However, I do have some updates for you guys if you are interested. First, I got the smoke tutorial up a couple of days ago. I believe it goes over more that nearly all of the current tutorials that are out there. I've noticed most of them don't even go over how to render the smoke, which is the most...Read More
The DS Livestream
Written on February 13th, 2010So far I have gotten about 30+ votes on the current poll and I guess there is some interest in the livestream idea. In light of that I thought I would move forward and start asking you guys the big questions. 1) When would you want the livestream? (Include the time zone) 2)What do you want the first livestream to be about? It's pretty simple, I would appreciate your answers in the form of a comm...Read More
Save the Models!
Written on February 4th, 2010Lately, I have been asked for the Camaro model I made in the modeling tutorial. Awesome! Someone wants to study my work and learn from it! So I refuse to send it to him. He was unable to learn from my work and I abandoned my duty to help all those who are willing to learn. I am just a sick twisted fiend refusing to help those in need.I'm pretty sure most of you would agree with what I did and kno...Read More
Avoid Embarassment With Your First Web Design
Written on January 29th, 2010Over the last few days I have been thinking about all the design aspects I want to use for Imantu version 2. At some point I starting thinking about when I first got started and thought 'I was an idiot back then' then immediately afterwards 'I'm probably still an idiot now'. In any case my memories of my first site design are not good. I was ignorant and didn't have a clue as to what I was d...Read More
Are your HD animations really HD?
Written on January 18th, 2010Unless you are very new to Blender, you probably know that you can render both images and videos. However, while it seems like there are a limited number of choices for video output, yet there are actually a ton of them. You just have to know where to look. I am sure there are a few of you who know exactly what I am talking about and laughing at my ignorance. Here's the story: I was working with...Read More
Beating Spam
Written on January 16th, 2010Regardless of whether or not your blog is new or old, you are going to have problems with spam. There is no way around it, the bots are always going to be there as long as you want to stay on the internet. While both of us will probably curse those who make those bots, the only way to beat them is to set up some security and hope it blocks them to some degree we are happy with. There really isn't...Read More