The Right Way to Set Keys in Maya

The Right Way to Set Keys in Maya

The right way to set keys in Maya, will make your life much easier later on. Either in the refine timing stage/interpolation or if you plan to key bake simulation in order to export to a game engine such as Unity. Settings keys in Maya is fundamental skill for animators. You can apply the same […]

Deleting Unnecessary Keyframes in Maya After Bake Simulation

Deleting Unnecessary Keyframes in Maya After Bake Simulation

Deleting unecessary keyframes in Maya after key baking simulation, is a great way to reduce file size from your final FBX(s) format. Which is very important when you are dealing with a lot of animation clips, performance-oriented. And that’s the right approach we have to take, if we were careless in the first place. The […]

A Step-by-Step Guide to Create a Simple GIF in Photoshop

A Step-by-Step Guide to Create a Simple GIF in Photoshop

In this step-by-step guide, we are going to explore how we can create and export a simple GIF file format in Adobe Photoshop in an old style. By old style I mean, we are going to create a frame animation, instead of the new method of video timeline. The new method is more advanced and […]

How to create a turntable in Maya

How to create and export a turntable in Maya

How to create a turntable in Maya for a 3D character for presentation purposes. simple steps you can follow through. Since this article is more from a technical perspective, for how you basically create a turntable in Maya, I won’t go into much detail about the renderer and the lighting I have used for exporting […]

How to create a simple progress bar – infographics element in After Effects

How to create a simple progress bar – infographic element in After Effects

Progress bar infographics in After Effects can be a very interesting way and basically can unfold some fundamental thoughts regardless of infographics in general. The progress bar infographics are quite simple as a process inside After Effects. Infographics are a really powerful way to transmit another way boring information. Infographics make the whole experience much […]

How to control wiggle with slider control in After effects

How to control wiggle with slider control in After effects

Control wiggle with slider in After Effects is a very easy process with so much potential although. You could adjust the two paraments that wiggle has (frequency, magnitude) with expression slider control. We can also use this technic to have more control over our wiggle effect. If you like to know more about simple expressions […]