Here are a few stop motion animation tips. You will need a digital camcorder, editing software, and clay or Legos. This video lends advice for basic stop motion animation. Avoid common mistakes if you are a beginner animator.
This is a very popular effect in film and television, where the camera switches focus on objects in one shot.
That digital video camera is a delicate piece of equipment, you need to treat it right. Check out this how-to video and learn how to properly operate it to ensure good footage and a long camera lifespan. This video guide covers basic camera handling and maintenance, and these general rules are useful for whatever brand video camera you're using.
In this Windows how-to, Digital Connector Jessica will show you how to change the appearance of your Windows XP desktop. Specifically, she addresses how you can use the classic Windows theme using the XP themes feature. For more on modifying the appearance of your Windows XP desktop, take a look!
Why let all the photos you've taken over the years with your digital camera sit on your computer in loose piles, forsaken? In this video tutorial, you'll learn how to use Roxio's free photoshow application to create impressive photographic slideshows. For more information on photoshow, or to get started creating your own slideshows, watch this Internet how-to!
There are many types of photography tripods for using in different shooting situations. Watch this instructional photography video to test out different tripods from mini to mighty. Make sure to label your tripod with your name and address, because at a large photo shoots, tripods often get lost, stolen, or confused with other tripods. Most of these tripods work well with digital SLR cameras and 35mm film cameras.
This tutorial explains how to import photos from your digital camera into iPhoto '08.
Here is a demonstration of a custom designed brush for the TVPaint software. This pen is sensitive to a realistic method of gestural drawing. Watch this instructional video to use this software brush to make several types of digital drawing strokes.
How do you choose colors for a drawing without it looking like a child's drawing? Watch this instructional drawing video to use a digital color palette effectively. Examine a photograph to choose accurate, subtle colors based on limited perspectives.
Looking for a free way to convert images you took with your digital camera? This tutorial shows you how to use IrfanView 4.10 for Windows to view, optimize and convert images. Learn the very basics of IrfanView 4.10 with this video and get ready to start editing your photos and images.
Watch this instructional photography video on how to shoot Panoramic photographs with What Digital Camera Magazine. Panoramic photography is a format of photography that creates images with exceptionally wide fields of view. You don't have to use a tripod but it's much easier than eye balling it while taking a series of photos of the landscape, and you won't have to crop as much.
Take a look at this instructional video and learn how to install the Twilight hack for you Wii. The twilight hack is an exploit that reads a elf file off the root of your secure digital (SD) card. To start up this hack, you'll need to load the Zelda: Twilight Princess game before you can run any unofficial software.
There are lots of applications you can use to record audio for your podcast. Why use Audacity? It’s free; it’s exactly the same on a Mac or PC; and it’s completely adequate for
Timelapse photography needn't be complicated, for advanced photographers only. This video photography tutorial helps explain how to take a timelapse picture, even if you're a complete beginner. Learn the process of taking a timelapse photo with a web, video, and digital camera. Watch, learn, and start practicing your shutter skills.
If you're baffled about how to get your own photographs into your Microsoft Office Word 2007 documents, watch this instructional video. A Microsoft employee who uses Word himself shows you how to insert your picture or digital photo into a document and format it the way you want. He addresses questions about terms like "inline" and "floating," and explains how easy it is to set up a watermark.
It doesn't matter how great your digital camera is, there are going to be times when you take pictures and your subjects have red eye. So watch this Photoshop tutorial and learn how to use Photoshop to "get the red out". Removing red eye is a basic and easy to learn process in Photoshop.
Watch this piano tutorial video to learn how to effectively teach group piano lessons through the digital piano lab. Piano teachers will find the detailed instructions and tips in this how-to video very helpful. Included is an example of a group piano lesson like the ones you'll be able to teach after you've watched this instructional video.
This heart-shaped chipboard scrapbook is a hybrid album using both digital and traditional scrapbooking methods. This video scrapbooking tutorial shows how to make a heart-shaped scrapbook mixing different scrapbooking techniques. Learn how to make this scrapbook photo album by watching this instructional video.
See how to quickly add watermarks, date stamps, and time stamps to digital photos using Mark IT Now! software with Bill Myers.
Check out this how-to video to make a phylogenetic tree that helps you understand how species are related in biology. Discover biology in a digital world.
This instructional video shows how to vote on the eScan precinct digital paper ballot scanner, from Hart InterCivic. You'll see how to start the voting process for when you first walk in the door to cast your vote, to using the eScan electronic vote scanner, and to choosing your next political party. So vote eScan!
Never heard of Screen Goo by Goo Systems? Well, it's a projector screen paint that is perfect for the DIY (do-it-yourself) home theater guru. So, check out this video tutorial on how to apply Screen Goo for the perfect projector screen around. Movie watching has never been better with your digital projector. Who needs a TV when you have Screen Goo?
Watch this 3ds Max video for an introduction to a complete series of tutorials for modeling and texturing a human head sponsored by Ego Farms. This is the very start of learning how to use this digital animating software. You'll also get insight on Adobe Photoshop, since you'll be working with that, too.
Breath some life into your animated scene by watching this 3ds Max video tutorial to see how to use keyframes for basic digital character animation modeling.
Watch this 3ds Max video tutorial to see how to get an object to follow a path with constraints to get procedurally control over your object with those constraints. Perfect for you digital animators/modelers.
Hey all you 3D digital animators out there, check out this 3ds Max video tutorial on how to precisely align the texture/image on your object using projection UV coordinates.
Attention: Digital 3D animators and modelers, watch this 3ds Max video tutorial to see how to add sound as reference to your scene for lip synch or animating to key events.
Become a director by creating cameras and moving them through your scene for that perfect shot with the help of this 3ds Max video tutorial. Especially helpful to digital animators and modelers who don't know how to create a scene.
If you're a digital 3D modeler or animator, you should check out this 3ds Max video tutorial to see how to use real world lighting calculations to get soft, beautiful lighting in your scene with radiosity.
All you 3D modelers and digital animators out there, watch this video to see how to take any photo image and wrap it onto the surface of an object in 3ds Max 8.
Yes, this 3ds Max video tutorial will show you modelers and digital animators how to add more believability to your lighting with physically accurate lights, as in photometric lights, so enjoy.
This 3ds Max video tutorial will show you how to modify an object at the lowest level, giving complete control over your objects appearance with EditPoly. So, if you don't know what a vertex is you digital modelers/animators, then you're missing something.
Look here at this 3ds Max video tutorial to see how to get the most control over your textures by unwrapping your UV's. Yes, you need help you digital 3D modelers/sculptors/animators. Doesn't everybody?
See how to influence an objects motion animation with controllers in this 3ds Max video tutorial. So if you're a digital 3D modeler/sculptor/animator, then this is the video for you.
This 3ds Max video tutorial will show you how lighting, like omnilights, mental ray rendered lights, skylights, and many more, can make the difference between amateur and pro. Take some time to learn the standard lights as digital modelers/sculptors/animators.
Check out this 3ds Max video tutorial on how to create complex shapes easily with lofts and sweeps. A great tool for all of you digital 3D modelers/sculptors/animators.
Check out this 3ds Max video tutorial to see how to beautify your objects with materials, change their shininess, reflectivity, opacity, etc. A valuable tool for any digital 3D modeler/animator/sculptor.
Check out this 3ds Max video tutorial on how to turn those objects into an image or movie you can share with others by rendering your modeled 3D scene. This is helpful to all digital animators/modelers/sculptors.
This 3ds Max video tutorial will show you how to create procedural objects from your 2D shapes, extrusions, and bevels. This is a must for all you graphic digital animators/modelers.
Check out this 3ds Max video tutorial on a detailed look at creating shapes and lines. Autodesk's 3D Studio Max is a customizable and scalable 3D modeling and rendering solution for games, film, and television, so don't miss out you digital animators.
