Category Archives: Tutorials

A functional example of OSC address rewrites: using TouchOSC and OSCulator to add a Recording Light behavior to an iOS device.

Getting an independent Python 2.6.1 version running smoothly on Ubuntu 8.10 ("Intrepid"), without interfering with the system's reliance on Python 2.5 and without breaking the entire package dependency system.

Instead of waiting 27 hours for a Global Illumination render to finish, it's possible to achieve realistic results by faking natural light. There are a zillion techniques for achieving that. Here's one of them.

As an introduction to the basics of using expressions in Maya, this tutorial shows how to make simple wings flap at a controllable speed without setting a single keyframe.

The hidden distanceBetween node - and the more common clamp function - are explained using a simple example: making two spheres glow as they approach each other.

Using soft body dynamics in Maya to animate a flying balloon with a string attached to it. This tutorial introduces the concepts of Goal Curves, Wire Deformers and GoalPP Weights.