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How To: Create a motion blur camera effect with Mental Ray

Learn how to create a motion blur effect with Mental Ray in 3ds Max 2010 or 2011. See how to control the camera's shutter speed, the quality of motion blur, and how to decide if a single mesh has motion blur or the entire scene. You'll also take a look at fast motion blur option using Scanline Fast Rasterizer option. Whether you're new to Autodesk's popular modeling software or a seasoned 3D artist just looking to better acquaint yourself with the application, you're sure to be well served by...

How To: Use mobile hotspots on smartphones to access the internet on your Nintendo 3DS

There are many different applications and games on the Nintendo 3DS that can take advantage of an active internet connection over Wi-Fi such as Netflix or the eStore. Unfortunately, since the 3DS is a mobile device, you won't always have access to the internet. If you have a mobile hotspot on a smartphone or tablet, you can share the internet connection over wireless with the gaming handheld.

How To: Play Augmented Reality Games on Your Nintendo 3DS with Android & WP7 Phones

The Nintendo 3DS comes with six AR cards that allow you to play the augmented reality games packaged with the device. Of course, if you were to lose the fragile paper cards or damage them in some way, you would be unable to continue playing them. It's easier and safer to carry constant access to the AR games by installing apps on your Android and Windows Phone 7 smartphones. Both apps are free and available through the smartphone app markets.

How To: Motion track using a variety of software programs

Most of the 3D modeling tutorial videos out there work within one program or at most two, often Photoshop in conjunction with a 3D modeling program like Maya. This video will walk you through a complete project using four program: 3DS MAX for modeling, Boujou for 3D tracking, Photoshop for texture editing, and finally After Effects for compositing. If you have all of those programs and want to create a seriously good-looking image, look no further.

How To: Create a Terminator eye visual effect

Create stunning visual graphics with this Terminator eye tutorial. If you've ever wanted to work with James Cameron, here's your chance to prove your stuff. Vfxworld shows you how to use visual effects software from beginning to end to create a realistic-looking Terminator. Be sure to watch all of the 9 part series to get the whole picture! Learn to use SynthEyes, 3ds Max, compositing, color correction and more.

News: The Best Black Friday 2019 Deals on iPhone Cases

While some people might like Thanksgiving because of the food, seeing family, or another wholesome reason, many of us also enjoy saving big on the items we've been eyeing all year. Take iPhone cases, for example. Speck, Insignia, even Apple all make cases that can put a dent in your wallet. A good Black Friday deal can mean a shiny new case for your iPhone and some extra dollars in your pocket.

News: 3D Modeling Comes to Mixed Reality on the HoloLens with Verto Studio 3D

3D modeling is usually a very long and complicated process. Manipulating the thousands to millions of vertices, faces, and triangles to the correct shape you want is just the first part of the process, and can take a good while depending on the level of detail needed. From there, you need to texture the model by applying the UV coordinates and placing the textures in the correct places. And all of this isn't even including the process of creating normal maps.

How To: Tie the Plasti Dip Fry

Flashback Max from Alaskaflyfish.net demonstrates how to tie an odd-looking little thing called the Plasti Dip fry. Plasti Dip is a product that can be used to make a rubbery surface. It doesn't run like epoxy, and sets up quickly. As Max puts it, "Dead-drift that puppy, and see what ya get!"

How To: Import models into Bryce

Sometimes you build the perfect scene in Bryce, but you want to include a model you built in Rhino or 3DS or Poser -- or whatever. Or you may decide to insert a pre-made model that you downloaded. This is a basic tutorial in doing that with Bryce.

How To: Use Microsoft Excel's MAX IF & RANK functions

New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 344th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to find the max value given more than one critereon (i.e., multiple criteria).

How To: Tie the Aztec fly

Alaskaflyfish.net's Flashback Max demonstrates how to tie an interesting and unusual fly. Max uses foxtail in the video, but artificial fibers can also be used. It's an experimental model - untried at the time the video was posted - but you're invited to give it a try in the field and see what sort of results you get.

How To: Tie a conehead zuddler

In this tutorial, Flashback Max teaches you how to tie the Conehead Zuddler. Created by the late Andy Sorensen, it's a colorful and versatile tie. It's particularly handy for fly fishing. Flashback Max demonstrates it here as a kind of tribute to Sorensen, who died suddenly. It only takes a few minutes to make, and the results are impressive.

How To: Determine your VO2 maximum

Backpacker magazine associate editors Jason Stevenson and Shannon Davis demonstrate how to estimate your VO2 Max in this April 2007 SkillsCast. Find out how a simple running test can determine your VO2 Max, and why raising your score can make you a better backpacker, increase your endurance and fitness level.

How To: Install Talismoon Whisper Max fan upgrade in XBox 360

If you've owned an XBox 360 for very long, chances are you've run into a cooling problem. The stock fans in the console case just aren't powerful enough to cool the processors. This video will show you how to alleviate the cooling problems by installing a Talismoon Whisper Max, a third-party fan upgrade that allow you to cool you XBox at either the default 5 volts or crank it up to 12 volts with a nitro switch when you're playing a 3D game or doing something else that demands a lot of the XBo...

How To: Play a beginner's game of pool

Leah D'Emilio, from Mahalo, becomes a hustler for a day: a pool player, that is! Leah takes a lesson on how to play pool with 3-time national champion Max Eberle. From how to pick the right cue to the various forms of hand bridges, Max takes us through some helpful hints as well as how to pull of a few trick shots. Even learn how to put chalk on your cue tip and rack the pool balls. If you thought you couldn't play billiards, you're wrong, you can.

How To: Create visually stunning compositions from 3D renders in After Effects

Compositing and color correction are important and integral steps in processing a 3D render after it is generated in Cinema 4D, 3D Studio Max or any other 3D package. Compositing transforms simple renders and provides them with life, vibrancy and atmosphere. In this demonstration, Greyscale Gorilla breaks down a 5 second project from Rich Hinchcliffe and demonstrates how Rich uses Adobe After Effects, color correction, blurs, ReelSmart Motion BLur, Frischluft Lens Care and Lens Flares to tran...