While this video is aimed at the writer of a crime novel or thriller, you can use this advice to strengthen any fiction writing. Avoid stereotypical characters and create believable conflict between all the characters. And above all - make sure you have a good motive!
Dressing up as a character from the "Harry Potter" series is so appropriate for Halloween because you've got a wide selection of witches, wizards, house elves, fluffy pets, trolls, evildoers, and other miscellaneous wacky characters to choose from.
If you're looking to mix it up at your next cosplay or going out for Halloween and want to dress as a male character and get the look right, one method you can use is closed shirt binding. In this video, you will learn how to use a sports bra, a compression shirt, and more to get the look!
Lord of the Rings Online is now free to play! This tutorial demonstrates how character creation works, so you can design your own dwarven, elven or human hero of Middle Earth. Your appearance is influenced by your origin, which is demonstrated in this video as well.
Make your characters and objects move the way you want them to by mastering these basic animation techniques to display motion. This shows you how you can animate a character walking while also swinging their arms, and maybe even talk, all separate from each other.
Need some help figuring out how to create bones for character rigging within Adobe Flash Professional CS5? It's simple. And this video presents a complete walkthrough of the process. Whether you're new to Adobe Flash or merely unfamiliar with Flash Professional CS5, you're sure to benefit from this free video software tutorial from Lynda. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, take a look.
In this video, we learn how to draw a spiky and mischievous graffiti character. Start off by drawing the face and head, giving spikes for the hair. Make an angry face on the character, then draw him holding a spray paint can out in front of him. Draw the rest of the body, then make another spray paint can in the other hand. Next, draw the legs with baggy pants on them, and a loose t-shirt. After this, add a small pointy goatee to the chin and shade in darker areas on the shirt and face. Finis...
This clip offers instructions on how to do non-character rigging for animation in C4D. Whether you're new to MAXON's popular 3D modeling application or are just looking to get better acquainted with Cinema 4D and its various features and functions, you're sure to enjoy this free video software tutorial. For more information, and to get started creating and rendering your own Space Octopus, watch this 3D modeler's guide.
Using motion capture is one of the easiest and most effective ways to animate the motions of a bipedal character who is proportional to a normal human. When the character is not in proportion, like the World of Warcraft low-poly models in this video, it gets a little more complicated. This video will teach you how to use motion capture in 3DS MAX to animate a goblin WoW character, making them almost ready to use in your hybrid machinima videos.
In this short C4D user's, you'll see how to create a simple 3D character using polygon modeling and hyperNURBS. The end result is a very low poly model. Whether you're new to MAXON's popular 3D modeling application or are just looking to get better acquainted with Cinema 4D and its various features and functions, you're sure to enjoy this free video software tutorial. For more information, and to get started creating and rendering your own 3D characters, watch this 3D modeler's guide.
Uma Thurman's character Mia Wallace from "Pulp Fiction" is one of cinema's most iconic faces. Every single person who has seen Quentin Tarentino's masterpiece remembers Mia's dance scene with John Travolta or the part where she gets the giant needle to the chest. This character is bold, beautiful and perfectly pulp.
This video, assembled for a school project by some art school students, teaches you how to draw comic book superheroes in two parts. They begin by going over the material that you will need, then the basic shapes that make up the majority of comic character's bodies, then goes over examples, including how to draw the popular anti-hero Vegeta from Dragonball Z.
Even if your body doesn't melt at the thought of Edward Cullen and you think the vampire fad is the most malicious prepubescent girl malady since N'Sync, you have to admit the CW drama "The Vampire Diaries" is pretty addicting.
Looking for a primer on how to create and work with array formulas in Microsoft Office Excel? You've come to the right place. In this free video tutorial from everyone's favorite MS Excel guru, YouTube's ExcelIsFun, the 9th installment in his series of Excel array formula series, you'll learn create array formula that counts all the characters in a range of cells.
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 331st installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to extract individual characters without extracting the leading zeroes through use of the MID, VALUE and COLUMNS functions.
Is there any character in the history of cartoons more iconic than Mickey Mouse? You'd be hard pressed to think of one, and in this tutorial, you can become part of the legend by learning to draw him!
Fun tutorial on japanese anime drawing. "Chibi" is a Japanese term for "short person" or "child". All the chibis in this video are based on characters from Miki Falls, a book by Mark Crilley, the creator of this video. The music was created in Garageband 2.0.2. Learn how to draw different emotions for manga characters.
Chinese chess is the world’s most popular board game. Chinese chess, also known as xiangqi, has been played throughout East Asia for over 1000 years. The playing pieces have traditionally been identified using Chinese characters, so only those who could read Chinese characters could play. Now, Chinese chess is available in a set in which the pieces are identified by symbols on one side and Chinese characters on the reverse side so that anyone can enjoy this challenging strategy game.
In the following lessons you will learn some essential tools and techniques for working with muscles in Houdini. In the first lesson, you will learn how to rig up a simple muscle arm using Houdini's Muscle tool. The Muscle tool uses meta-balls to capture your character's skin with realistic muscle/skin interaction.
"Miki Falls" manga creator Mark Crilley presents a tutorial on how to draw manga or anime hair. The first character's hair is drawn entirely in real time, with continuous spoken explanation. Drawing hair is one of the most important components of anime and manga figure drawing, this video will show you how.
This tutorial shows how to setup the character order in which you want to fight in Arcade mode in Mugen - the custom PC game engine.
How to create a character for Mugen - the custom PC game engine - using Fighter Factory.
In this video, we learn how to draw the manga character Vash. Start by drawing the outline of the character from the head to the toe. After this, draw in the details of the body and the face. Next, use a paintbrush in black to start to draw over the outline to make a 3D version of it. From here, draw on the details of the body as well as the colors for the skin. After this, draw in the details for the hair and then color in the clothing. Add in shading and lines on the clothing to make it loo...
This guide shows you how to powerlevel your character early on in Dragon Age: Origins. When Duncan sends you out to find vials of darkspawn blood and the old Grey Warden treaties, bring back the blood but not the treaties. Rinse and repeat and continue accruing xp!
This tutorial shows you how to use your favorite drawing or art program (like Photoshop or GIMP) to create your own digital painting of Raiden, a character from the popular video game Metal Gear Solid. After creating the basic sketch, this video shows you how to create your own painting.
In this video, we learn how to draw a game character in motion. First draw the outline of the game character and make the body more prominent with details. After this, start to add in darker lines around the outside, then start to shade in the drawing and make the different parts pop out of the page. Next, add in colors throughout the sketch and add in white marks to show the glare on the picture. You will want to keep adding in all the small details to make this picture look even better. Whe...
Who is Chavo del Ocho? Well, Chavo del Ocho was a hit Mexican sitcom that gained popularity in Mexico as well as Brazil, Spain, and the United States in the 1970s. Chavo del Ocho was also a character in this show, an orphan who is kind but also gullible.
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to draw the animated character, Edward Elric. Begin by drawing the guidelines of the character in 30% black pencil lines. The head is drawn as an oval shape. The shoulder is guided by a large circle and the elbow by a smaller circle. Connect the shoulder and elbow together with a stick line. Add details with the opaque pencil and erase the guidelines. To color, start with a mid-tone and add shading. Use some transparent tones on the mechanical arm. Hi...
If you want to have your character punch a very hard object, or punch a person very hard, then it will help if you can show their damaged, bloodied knuckles afterwards. Now you can with help from this video. It will teach you how to create a very gory fake knuckle wound out of basic prop and makeup materials. Now your characters can punch with authority.
Gambit is one of the most popular and underutilized characters in the X-Men pantheon. Now, you can show you appreciation of this iconic anti-hero by making his likeness out of Legos. This video walks you through the process of making a Lego figure look like Gambit. The only non-Lego thing that you will need is paint, and the effect at the end is very cool.
Take your favorite cartoon characters from the television to your very own bedroom walls! Learn how to draw Pon and Zi, the two cute little emo cartoon characters created by Azuzephre with help from Drawing Now. Search WonderHowTo for more videos from Drawing Now to learn how to draw a variety of characters and cartoons!
Legend of Zelda fans unite! Learn how to draw Zelda toon characters with help from Drawing Now. Search WonderHowTo for more videos from Drawing Now to learn how to draw a variety of characters and cartoons!
Take your favorite Looney Tunes characters from the TV screen to your very own bedroom walls! Learn how to draw the famous Roadrunner (you know... "Beep! Beep!") from the Looney Tunes series with help from Drawing Now. Search WonderHowTo for more videos from Drawing Now to learn how to draw a variety of characters and cartoons!
For all you Naruto fans, this tutorial is for you. If you've been looking for a video on how to draw Kisame Hoshigaki, then look no further. This video shows you how to draw the anime/manga character from the popular anime/manga Naruto! The character is very sinister and has an outfit that might be a tad difficult to draw, but with enough pracitce you're sure to get it. Enjoy!
In this "how to" video, we learn how to draw a "chibi" form of an angel. Chibi is a Japanese term meaning "short person" or "small child". It has become a style of art in which Japanese Anime and Manga artists attempt to make all of their characters into "cute", childlike characters (with small bodies, large heads, and large eyes). The artist in this video shows his/her step by step process of drawing a small "chibi" angel holding tightly onto a heart. The artist starts with the eyes, then wo...
A video from Helpvids.com that shows how to insert special characters in MS Word 2007. A seldom used function in MS Word is the Insert Symbol function. Symbols like the copyright, infinity, registered trademark, Yen, Pound, Euro etc can be of use in some documents. Word provides an easy way to insert these and many other such symbols into your documents without much hassle (For example, using the Character Map utility provided with Windows).
We can't all be King of England, but we can all be cartoonists. Thanks to this helpful step-by-step guide to creating a character in Adobe Flash, you'll be on your way to some animation domination of your own in no time.
In this video, "Miki Falls" manga cartoonist Mark Crilley shows how to draw body proportions for manga comics. Characters in manga proportions are often proportioned differently than characters in American comics, with larger heads and more childlike bodies. This video show you how to get manga bodies right.
Whenever you see a website that has some weird fonts or characters displayed on the web page, like a website containing Arabic fonts, but which are not displayed properly, then InshaAllaah, check this tutorial and you'll have the problems rectified.
This tutorial uploaded from Stage6 shows you how to model a low polygon character in Blender 3D. Low poly characters may have less details than higher poly count characters but they will move faster in video game engines and are easier to work with. So watch and learn how to model a low poly character in Blender 3D from image plane references.
