Image Metrics stopped by a few days ago to talk about their amazing facial capture software. They’ve worked with Ubisoft, EA, Rockstar Games, Intel and more on many many amazing products. There tech and software is without a doubt some of the most advanced and innovative I’ve ever seen. In short, their tech allows users [...]
Thats right Auto Rigging. Yes Automatic no hassle skeleton creation, skin weighting mesh animating goodness! Months of hard work, late night, beer and nerf gun shoot outs have come together to reveal our most advanced and ambitious effort yet! And this is only the beginning, in the weeks and months to come you can expect [...]
Not everyone knows how useful or important the pivot point can be. Generally when an object is created it comes with a: Centered Pivot 1. the center point of any rotational system 2. the point at which the location of an object in 3d space is determined The pivot point seems so simple and easy to [...]
Any 3D modeler has probably heard the term “Manifold” but what does this mean? Well if your new to modeling or just never fully looked into it. Let’s add it to you knowledge base a vocabulary. Manifold 1. Something having many different parts or features. In the case of a 3d modeler that’s obviously a polygonal mesh. Lets make this definition [...]
Thomas Pasieka was kind enough to take some time out of his schedule and do and interview with me. Thomas along with his wife Tavy are the creators of Unity Creative Magazine a wonderful magazine with all things Unity! Images and video of his current game Dungeon Legend are scattered throughout, enjoy! Oliver: Thomas, please [...]
Triangles and Quads A polygon or face as they are sometimes known as is a plane created in 3 dimensional space. A plane needs at least 3 points with which to plot edges between and then within those edges a surface can be generated. A computer generates surfaces between every three points. The resulting surface [...]
Solomon currently resides in the US, but hails from a small land locked Paradise tucked away in the interior of the East African Coast – the area known as ZANJ land during colonial times. The name is Uganda. He grew up on the outskirts of the capital city – Kampala, on the slopes of a [...]
In the world of 3d modeling the basics are universal. Lets begin at the beginning. Translation: is how an object is moved in 3D space. Imagine this: your back in those boring math classes looking at a graph based math problem, you need to plot the point between the X and Y axis. (Fig – [...]
Part of our new campaign to start getting people to show off their work. So, we are creating a series of funny videos powered by Mixamo. If you have some interesting work or something you want to show off, please let us know by leaving a comment or e-mailing us! Whether you have a game, [...]
Have you used Mixamo, do you have a product or video you think is really awesome. Are you making a short movie or a game? Do you want people to know more about it? We’d love you see and hear about it! Mixamo wants to help promote and showcase the work our users are creating. [...]
