How To: Work an Advanced Rig for character animation in Maya
Character rigging is important. Advanced Rigging makes it easier to animate your character. View joints and nerves so that you may easily select parts of the character.
Character rigging is important. Advanced Rigging makes it easier to animate your character. View joints and nerves so that you may easily select parts of the character.
This is a Tinkernut video cast. This video shows you how to control your computer (mainly games and miscellaneous programs such as Google Earth) using your webcam.
Tutorial on one of the hardest tricks in the game. A chest flick is also hard in real life. So it's appropriate that they make it hard on the Playstation 3. FIFA 09 is the best soccer game yet. Check out this chest flick juggling move today! All the controller sequences are spelled out.
Whether your scavenger hunt is for group competition or just fun, add a tech twist and let the games begin.
So you like card games, huh? Don't we all. Well, have you ever heard of Heart Attack? I didn't think so.
Watch this instructional violin video to learn how to play the "Lost Woods" song from the Zelda: Ocarina of Time video game on the violin. This tutorial video is great for violinist enthusiasts who love the video game. Find the sheet music for this song in the Downloads section of this user's personal website.
This video shows how to make a small scale Hobbit's hole. This example is for the Lord of the Rings game, but you can use this in your dioramas too. Use a yogurt container, a piece of board, and then decorate it however you want. Watch this instructional video and learn how to make a miniature hobbit house, like Bag End.
Grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk shows you in this chess video tutorial how to checkmate your opponent in just three simple moves. This mate in three moves problem is by Carlo de Grandi.
Learn how to play the Tigris and Euphrates board game with this how-to video. This how-to video features Tigris and Euphrates designer, Dr. Reiner Knizia. The Tigris and Euphrates are not just rivers in the Middle East, you know.
Check out this instructional video on how to play the German 2007 game of the year, Zooloretto. (No, you don't have to know German to play Zooloretto). You play Zooloretto with coins that come in the box.
Learn to play the board game "Plunder" with tips from this how-to video. To play Plunder, you need six players at the most. It is targeted mostly toward adults but even kids as young as eight like to plunder.
This tutorial details how you can use a program known as FRAPS to record your video games. The second video in the sequence details questions not addressed in the first video.
This chess lesson will show you the most common first moves made by White and Black in Master level games. Not quite a master? Well, that doesn't mean this won't make you better.
Do you know what a "double attack" is in a chess game? Well, the "knight fork" is basically the same thing; a simultaneous attack of one piece against two opponent pieces. Don't let your opponent win! Use this.
Having trouble with your chess game? Well, try this "double attack" method to do a simultaneous attack of one piece against two opponent pieces. This is also referred to as the "fork."
Are you in the endgame of your chess game? Are you chasing that king around with a couple rooks and your king? Just can't get a checkmate? Well, use this basic checkmate pattern to end the game quick.
You know the basics of moving the game pieces on the board and capturing, now you need to know the special moves of the chess pieces, such as Pawn Promotion, Castling, and En Passant.
Hello, my name is Nicole Valentine and on behalf of Expert Village, I'm here to talk to you about how to coordinate birthday games for a birthday party. We're going to now talk about how to play the game think fast. This is a very simple game. Just use a ball that you have at home, go to your kids room, go to the toy box and choose an easy ball and you would like to line the guest of the party in a circle. Choose a theme. If it's a boy's party, you might want to go with Power Rangers, or spor...
How to play your Import Gamecube games on a Nintendo Wii with the use of a Freeloader or any other kind of mod chip or swap disc.
This new video shows you step-by-step on how to make a Warhammer gaming board. Stop by your local hardware store and pick up a sheet of 1/2 inch plywood. They usually come on 8'x4' sections, so you may need them to cut the sheet in half.
Use this exercise game - Around the cone shooting drills - to improve your shooting accuracy when playing soccer. The second video gives ideas for a dribbling variation.
If you want to create a space arcade game, then you won't want to miss this! In this video tutorial you will learn to create your own scrolling game background using Macromedia Flash. By moving the background you can create the feeling of moving forward - just what you'll need for a space arcade game!
Want to get an absurdly high score on the Mindjolt game, Cube Crash? Of course you do, and that's precisely what this video tutorial is going to show you. You will first need the free game hacking program Cheat Engine, as well as a Cheat Engine compatible browser (such as Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox - this won't work if you're using Google Chrome). If you have both programs, open up Cube Crash in your browser, then open up Cheat Engine and just follow the outlined instructions to hac...
If you're looking to expand the storage capacity of your Xbox 360, you should look no further than a USB memory stick. And, this video will show you how to do it. You can store games, profiles, basically anything that's stored on your Xbox 360 game system. Microsoft recently added a patch to the game system to make this process really simple and easy to do. So, get a memory stick and start bulking up today! Oh, all that video game glory!
Yu-Gi-Oh! represented the third wave of collectible card gaming, taking the mantel from Pokemon and Magic and bringing the style of game to a new generation of kids. This video will teach you how to build three awesome decks for one of the video game versions of the game, Yu-Gi-Oh-Gx! Tag Force 2! They are called Cyber End, God, and Blue Eyes respectively.
CityVille is the newest Facebook game from Zynga, the same people who make FarmVille and FrontierVille. Starting from scratch, this tutorial shows you how to start and build your own city. Make sure you have the most efficient and profitable city of all your friends!
Everyone is excited for the newest addition to the TRON franchise, Evolution! This tutorial shows you everything that you need to know in order to get through the first level, Reboot, when playing this game. Best of all? You get your own light cycle!
Just buying the main disc-based games for the Nintendo Wii is actually limiting yourself quite a bit! There's a ton of classic arcade titles, Nintendo games, and old Sega games for you to choose from among many other titles all in the Wii Shop Channel! But to play them, you will need to purchase them with Wii Points which is your currency transferred into points. If you're scratching your head as to how to do this, you will get a chance to find out in this video.
Vortex is a puzzle-platformer in the Braid / Limbo vein, except with the somewhat selfish mission of getting yourself into a sauna. This video will show you how to beat all of the game's many levels, ensuring maximum sauna enjoyment.
If you can get past it's somewhat unappetizing name, the you'll find a fun free puzzler in Blockage. This video will show you how to beat levels 1-20 of the game.
Satanorium is a Flash old-school point-and-click horror adventure game (say that three times fast) hosted on PlayHub. This video will walk you through the entire thing, which looks pretty darn cool for a free game.
In this tutorial, we learn how to make a Call of Duty 4 working server. First, go into your game and go to "start new server". Next, name it whatever you want and put internet into the dedicated section. After this, save the information and a console will pop up. Don't close this, minimize it. Next, open up your game and go to "join game" and search for your server. When you find it, click on the information and write down the IP address it has inside of it. Now, go to XFire and type in the I...
If you're a fan of the original Hydro Thunder, that came out for the Playstation and Sega Dreamcast, you'll be happy to hear that it's back! Hydro Thunder Hurricane is a sequel/remake of the original game and is being sold as an Xbox Live Arcade game.
Mirror's Edge was an okay game, but the demo was one of the best ever made. It would have made a worthwhile budget game purchase by itself! If you, like many, got the demo but not the full game, this video will show you how to extend the life of said demo by teaching you how to escape the confines of the map using a glitch. A lot of the fun of this game is exploration, and now you can do more of it!
In this Games video tutorial you will learn how to play the Pente (Pentagon) marble game. It's a game of skill and strategy played on a 14" square hardwood game board. It can be comfortably played by 2 people or two teams. Teams do not have to be balanced (two against one, three against two, any combination). The board is divided into 3/4" squares. The unique feature of this board is the four holding trays for the playing gems. First decide who will start. The starting player places a gem at ...
In one of the most celebrated soccer tournaments, the World Cup is back! And with it comes an assortment of different merchandise, inlcuding its own video game; 2010 FIFA World Cup. This game puts you in the shoes of some of the world's most talented and electric soccer players out there. Teams like Argentina, Spain, U.S.A, and many others are at your disposal. So sit back and find out how to do all the new skills in the game. Enjoy!
In this tutorial, learn how to bypass Nintendo's copyright protection and burn Wii games to share with your friends. This video will show you exactly what you need to know to outsmart the system and copy your games to another disc.
In this how to video, you will learn how to play Borderlands LAN online using Tunngle. You will need Borderlands and Tunngle in order to do this. First, open Tunngle and then log in to Borderlands. Go to LAN game and select your character. From here, join a game. You are now ready to play. If your friend is not showing up, press E to refresh the list and make sure the port 11155 is being forwarded by the host. To get the in game mic to work, you must go to online game and make sure you log in...
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to add custom music in the game, WWE Smack Down vs. Raw 2009. Users will need a blank recordable CD and cannot use MP3s or any other audio format. Begin by recording all the music files into the CD and the insert it into the Xbox360. In the Xbox360 dashboard, go to My Xbox and select Play CD. Click on Rip CD and name the information of the CD. Now select the song that you want and add in into a play-list. Now to select the song in the game, select use...
Backgammon is played on a board with 24 triangles called points, the board it's divided in 4 quadrants and it's separate, 2 for one player and 2 for another player. At the beginning of the game each player have 15 checkers that is placed on the quadrant the player owns, each player have the checkers with different colors. And each player uses two dices to start the game. The objective of the game is to bears all your checkers off before you hold it, you cannot do this until all tour checkers ...