How To: Rig a character in Maya for beginners
Here we build a skeleton for the character and bind the skeleton to the geometry in Maya. This is also known as rigging a character.
Here we build a skeleton for the character and bind the skeleton to the geometry in Maya. This is also known as rigging a character.
All of us know how hard it is to remove gum stuck on our clothes. Luckily, you do not have to throw that garment away just yet. Watch this video on how to remove gum from clothes using some ice, a knife and a small plastic bag.
Clocks in the house are not bad feng shui if you know where to display them. Find out the best and the worst feng shui areas to display a clock in your home.
Did you know that you can add parental controls and change font sizes in iTunes? Learn how to customize the various settings in iTunes to fit your needs.
Japanese cuisine is a favorite of many rail-thin celebs for a reason: It's both delicious (luxurious may be a better word) and really, really healthy. That's because true Japanese cuisine is made mostly of raw ingredients - fish and a lot of vegetables.
Don't know what to make for dinner tonight? This simple, homemade chicken puff recipe calls for chicken, mushrooms, and cream cheese with herbs.
This does not teach you how to solve a Rubik's Cube, only how to twist the cube with one hand. Which means you're going to need one loose Cube to do this. You should already know how to solve the 3x3, otherwise you should stick to two hands.
Knowing how to tie a classy tie will have you looking your best when it counts. Follow this easy step-by-step guide to tying Windsor and Half-Windsor knots.
This tutorial shows you how to edit primitives, also known as box modeling, to create objects in Maya. This video is geared towards younger students new to Maya.
This video focuses on improving your video's general color thanks to the feature known as white balancing.
Oded Preis MD FAAP Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics SUNY Downstate Brooklyn . He talks about the important milestone of transferring objects in an infants hand and discusses at what age should they be doing that.
Learn from Henry Joseph Hasson, MD., how to tell if your 2-year-old is normal.
Basic installation of Drupal on a web server from start to finish with good explanations of Drupal's framework. Tutorial assumes viewer knows basic FTP and database configuration.
A fancy flourish known as the thumb fan. A basic flourish to
This is known as the Triforce flourish invented by this guy. Pretty neat and easy to do, while still looking fancy.
820,000 teenagers become pregnant each year in America alone. If you’re one of them, you’ll need to figure out how to tell your parents. Watch this video to learn a few pointers on letting your parents know the truth.
This video will teach you everything you need to know about dribbling the ball. From between the legs dribbling to behind the back dribbling to spin dribbling, these skills will dramatically improve your game.
Tim Carter, of Ask the Builder, demonstrates tips you should know before installing ceramic tile over plywood or OSB. Following these tips will make your looking sharp and beautiful, and practical.
You can't always wait for the right conditions. So it's important to learn how to use and alter the available resources to create the atmosphere you want.
Do you need to have some sort of bionic vagina in your next film? Do you want to scare the hell out of your parents during Halloween with this costume of the female muscular tube? Maybe you just want to be a vagina? Who knows. But you can see how to do it right here.
Watch this video to learn how to fold fitted sheets without any puffy wads. Unitl I saw this video, I didn't know it could be done
This is a clip from the seven hour session in which David I. Herman, known as "Doz", tattoo's his own upper right thigh with a Tiger and Flame tattoo design. Warning: Please do not try this unless you are professional tattoo artist. Do not try this at home
Another origami by Jeremy Shafer, this one is known as the venus flytrap or space monster. It’s a complicated action model paper design, and when pulled from the “leafs” or tentacles, it opens its mouth! Learn how to fold this design by watching the video!
Casino Jackpot Winner Stanley Zarakov instructs the novice player on which cards to hold and which to discard.
In this Zbrush tutorial Jason goes over everything you need to know about painting textures and more.
This is the ultimate realistic combat simulation paintball markers, and is a replication of the famous M4-style military paint gun. See how to use it, and leaarn everything else there is to know about it.
Solve the 4x4 Rubik's Cube, finally! Part one demonstrates how to solve the centers and pair the edges.
Play the top-ranked strategy board game Puerto Rico (yes, Puerto Rico), with Scott. Who knew games could be so fun, or hard to explain. But try it out, cause maybe you're just getting tired of Monopoly.
You know what they say, when you have straight hair, you want curly and vice-versa. I have wavy hair, so I crave curly AND straight. Here's a simple and inexpensive way to curl your hair. No curling iron or hot rollers needed. Your hair is less damaged and more healthy looking.
This video is to show how to replace a flint in your Zippo lighter. It's really simple. Most people already know how to do this, so if you're watching this, you should feel sorry for yourself.
This video will tell you all you need to know to get that fire of yours started using an aluminum fire piston. Never leave home without this, that is, if you live in the woods.
Not only does this salad look and taste great, but it's also great for you too! Each serving has: 351 calories, 30 grams of protein, 29 grams of carbohydrates, 12 grams of fat. No one will know this one is actually good for you!
This screencast shows you how to add a shake effect to your video in Sony Vegas. It is also known as Quake, Jitter, tremor etc. It can have an interesting impact on your productions.
In this soldering tip video brought to you by BEST, Inc. Norman Mier certified master instructor for Soldering Skills demonstrates multi-plated through-hole tweezer method, also known as SOIC tweezer method.
Here, you'll hear all about the materials needed to teach English as a foreign language. This guy knows. Trust me.
If you're a heavy gmail user here's a handy way to sort your incoming emails from spam with a little known trick from Tekzilla.
If you're a Win XP user you know frustrating it can be using the command prompt... especially if you need to type a long string of commands, or worse, a subdirectory. Tekzilla shows you how to do this easily
Learn how to shuffle a deck of cards. I will be teaching you how to do a hindu shuffle, an overhand shuffle, and a riffle shuffle.
These two math sixth-graders show us how to find the surface area of a rectangular prism. They used a tablet PC and the screen-capturing software, Camtasia Studio. If you always wanted to know how to calculate the area of a prism, then...
You're either part of a Scrabble family, or you're not. If you're looking to transform your family, then before you can play Scrabble, you need to know all about it, the history and everything. Just don't be stuck being the Scrabble jackass.