May 11, 2013

This video covers some of the functionality, workflow and quirks of LightWave 11.5's Compositing Buffer Export. It's not a comprehensive video about the tool, or the concept of multi-pass rendering, but it does show the basics of how to use the tool and warns about a fairly big gotcha with it.

May 1, 2013

Procedural Fire I stumbled upon a pretty nifty way to make a rolling fire procedural texture last week and polished it up a bit for this week’s video. This is all done as a Textured Environment backdrop and uses two Procedural Layers (their positions are animated) and two Gradient Layers The video shows me recreating the effect from scratch. I go through...

Apr 19, 2013

Rob Powers and Lino Grandi give a brief demo of a Kinect driving a character. I wonder when we’ll get this “out of the box” feature in our hands. I’m looking forward to playing with it. NAB Show 2013 – Rob Powers Demonstrates New Motion Capture Robot Demo There’s a different Kinect demo shown at the end of Rob’s...

Apr 12, 2013

Sometimes you’ll find yourself doing the same things over and over and over again. One great way to simplify your life is by coding all of those repetitive tasks into a script (either LScript or Python), but what if you don’t know how to program? In this video dwburman shows how some simple can be semi-automated very simply with LScript Commander. No...

Apr 9, 2013

Now Streaming from NAB 2013 What would a major broadcasting convention be without streaming video? Here’s a short list of live streams available to people who were unable to attend this year’s show. FXGuide.com is streaming from the Foundry Booth. The Foundry is, of course, the new home of Modo, so you might be able to catch some Modo demos on...