[5 Jan 2012 | No Comment | 2,835 views]
Building A Car Rig

This tutorial was written for the November 2008 of 3D World magazine (issue 109). It shows how to create a rig for a 4 wheeled vehicle that uses spring dynamics to simulate suspension movement.

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3D, Featured, Houdini »

[28 Aug 2011 | 7 Comments | 2,642 views]
Houdini Cheat Sheet

A cheat sheet for Houdini showing the most commonly used SOP operators, expressions, and variables.

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Featured, Photography, Video »

[7 Aug 2011 | 3 Comments | 3,420 views]
CineStyle for Canon EOS DSLRs

All about Cinestyle. Technicolor’s new picture style for the Canon 5D MkII.

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Featured, ICE, XSI »

[19 Mar 2011 | No Comment | 2,508 views]
AT&T Spring

A question and answer session discussing the techniques used for the AT&T Spring commercial. This was a job I jointly led in our Mill New York office earlier this year.

Written for 132nd edition of Digital Media World Magazine.

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Featured, Video »

[1 Jan 2011 | 7 Comments | 5,419 views]
Shooting on the GoPro Hero HD

If you’re thinking of shooting video for any sort of extreme sport, then the GoPro Hero HD camera is a great choice. I used one for filming a windsurfing holiday in Egypt last year and got some great footage.

Here’s 10 practical tips for shooting on the GoPro Hero HD camera.

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3D, Download, Featured, ICE, XSI »

[17 Oct 2010 | No Comment | 3,577 views]
Replace ICE String

The Replace ICE String tool lets you effortlessly change attribute names in your ICE trees.

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Featured, Python, XSI »

[13 Jul 2010 | 3 Comments | 4,289 views]
Solutions for Python in XSI (Part 2)

This is the second article of two that show solutions to common problems faced when using Python in XSI.

It discusses a useful way of importing your own Python modules into your plugins.

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Featured, Python, XSI »

[8 Jul 2010 | 2 Comments | 3,414 views]
Solutions for Python in XSI (Part 1)

This article is the first of two that will show you solutions to a couple of common problems you’ll face when using Python in XSI.

Here we look at passing functions to PPGs to be used as PPG logic. Something simple in other scripting languages, but harder in Python.

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3D, Featured, ICE, XSI »

[4 Jul 2010 | 3 Comments | 3,004 views]
Nested ICE compound hell

Exporting ICE compounds. What could be simpler?

Well, as it turns out, quite a lot. Especially if you forget to tick a certain checkbox…

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