Creating realistic trees in Maya is hard enough without the leaves, but when you add the lively green leaves onto the branches, the difficulty level doubles. An animated leaf needs to mimic a real life, living leaf, which is intricate, to say the least. So, if you've been having problems with making tree leaves in Maya, this two-part video tutorial will show you the tricks to success. But it's only the beginning of what you can accomplish in Maya.
Ben 10 is one of the most popular shows in Cartoon Network's history. This video from Drawing Now will teach you how to draw his iconic older sister Gwen Tennyson. Here are some instructions from the artist:
This video will show you the ins and outs to cooking turtles. No! We're not talking about turtle soup here— these are breakfast turtle flapjacks. These turtle pancakes are perfect for starting off the day right— with a happy and fun breakfast meal. Great for children.
During a time when it's more important than ever to watch what you eat, more and more chefs are creating tasty dishes that are easy on the belt but full of flavor. Out of the many diets, one of the most popular is the Atkins diet. It mainly focuses on the amount of carbs you eat and how to limit them. So in this specific diet tutorial, you'll find out how to make Atkins low carb teriyaki stir fry. Ingredients are listed below, enjoy!
We all know that henna ink can dye your skin, but did you know that you can use it for your hair as well? Henna is an inexpensive and unique way to darken your locks. If you are thinking of going brown, and want to use Henna to do so, follow along with this tutorial. This video will show you step by step how to go about this dye job and look beautiful.
In this Arts & Crafts video tutorial you will learn how to use markers & water to create a watercolor stamp look. You can use rubber and acrylic stamp for this. You will need water based markers, minimister and card stock. Select you stamp and color it with markers as you would do in a painting. For example, you can color the leaves green and flowers red. You can also apply different shades. Then spray water with the minimister and stamp the image. Just stamp and lift, don't keep it too long ...
This video shows how to draw a picture of the Earth. First draw a rough circle in black. Add blue sea areas inside the circle but leave a white space in the shape of Africa and a white space for Europe above it. On the left leave a white space for a part of America. Fill all the land areas in green. Draw an outline in turquoise round all the land areas. Add some lighter blue smudges on the sea and some yellow on the land. Add a few small brown touches at the poles and on some of the land area...
This video illustrate us how to draw a simple strawberry. Here is the procedure for the following: Step 1: First of all take a sheet of paper, pencil color and pencil.
In this how-to video, you will learn how to easily draw a wind mill from scratch. First, start off with the building of the mill. Next, draw the arms of the wind mill. Include the flaps on the arms. Next, fill in the smaller details such as the center of the rotation. Next, you can fill in the color of the building. In this case, brown was used. Next, fill in the arms of the wind mill. Add appropriate shading on top of the building. You can also add shading to the arms. Next, fill in the back...
Donna50242 shows us how to make an amazing looking tag to use on different things. This video is in response to another one posted earlier. This tag is made be crinkling up an ordinary brown paper tag and then flattening it out to create the worn out wrinkle effect. Using a distressing inking tool with a foam pad, we apply the ink in a swirling motion. using different colors from the ink set (Mahogany, Mustard seeds, green etc), we can create amazing effects. And that's it, your done! Try exp...
In this video, Eugene shows us how to make Ramen. You will need Ramen, onion, carrots, green onions, soup powder and an egg. First, take a pan with boiling water and place your three vegetables into it. After this, place your Ramen into the pan and make sure it's completely soaked. Now you can place your soup base and flakes into the soup! Now, stir everything together in the pot until the soup base is well mixed in. Let this boil for around 3 minutes or until the noodles are soft. After 3 mi...
Scott from Spring Hill Nursery with Step by Step Gardening teaches you some basics about hydrangea plants. He talks about how to take care of the plants, how to ensure blooming, and some planting considerations. Hydrangea plants need at least five hours a day in order to bloom so they should not be planted in very shady locations. The blooms can be pink, blue, green, or white, depending on the variety and soil conditions. The blooms can be used in bouquets, or dried for use in crafts. The pla...
This video illustrate us how to make cashew toffee. Here are the following steps: Step 1: First of all take cashew nut and break into pieces,keep aside.
How much air is actually inside a packing peanut? There is a simple experiment to conduct to see what is leftover. To begin, pour 200 ml of acetone into a glass container and add approximately 1800 ml of packing peanuts. Stir with a wooden spoon to dissolve. The video's author starts with the 1800 ml and realizes that that isn't enough. He then keeps adding until he has added an entire large bucket to the original 200 ml of acetone. After all are dissolved, all that is left in the glass conta...
She shows us how to apply the rainbow brite french tip by first applying a white tip. You should let the paint dry. Next you should do you first thin stripe in pink. After you finish pink you should do orange and then yellow. The last thin lines of color to apply is green, blue, and purple. She recomends doing two coats of paint for brighter result. After all the polish has dried you should apply a top coat. When it has dried get your silver polish and draw a thin line under the color lines. ...
This video illustrate us how to make Jamaican style jerk chicken at home. Here are the following steps:
Shelley Lovett explains that reindeer food is, and demonstrates how it is made. Reindeer food is something you can make and then sprinkle on the snow or grass in your yard in order to help Santa's reindeer find your house. All have to do is mix some quick oats with a little red and green colored sugar to make it sparkle. Then you put in in a bag and tie with a ribbon. She has a little tag she ties onto the ribbon that explains what reindeer food is and how to use it. You can print the tag fro...
In this video, Karen shows us how to decorate cupcakes in different ways. You can use McCormick frosting in a bowl, add neon green food coloring and mix this together. Put some frosting on the cupcake and smooth it out onto the cupcake. Another great thing is to put frosting into a small plastic sandwich bag, cut the corner of the bag and you now have your own icing bag! You can use this to make any design you'd like on your cupcakes. Make the clip on the corner bigger or smaller, depending o...
With rainfall comes unwanted plant growth in the form of weeds. Here's how to identify and control them. First is Nutsage which has a glossy green leaf, triangular stem and the rhizome sends up new plants whenever you cut away at it. Next is jungle rice which is an aquatic weed, from areas where there is a lot of moisture. It can be identified by it red/purple chevrons. Use herbicide to take them out before they get too large. Next is pigweeds, to get rid of it you can use weed killer or a ho...
In this how-to video, you will learn how to make a four leaf clover pendant. Start off with contact paper and place it on a smooth flat surface, such as a large plate. Trace a four leaf clover shape onto the paper using a pencil or pen. Fill the entire shape in with glue. Once it dries, you can color the pendant with a green marker. Finally, you can peel off the contact paper. The four leaf clover shape will come right off with it. Viewing this video will show you the fastest and easiest way ...
Kat demonstrates how to make spicy Thai red curry chicken. First, chop two bell peppers, potatoes and a carrot. Place a pan over medium high heat. Add coconut milk to red curry paste in the pan. Once the curry paste has dissolved, add minced garlic, one tablespoon of fish sauce and one tablespoon of brown sugar. Add a half a cup of water. Then, add the chicken and the chopped potatoes, carrots and bell peppers. Cook for five minutes. Then, add softer vegetables like mushrooms, onions, green o...
Under the instruction of Dawit Asmelash, cook a delicious Ethiopian Lamb dish called Ye Fem Tibs. This dish should only take 5 minutes to make. Before cooking, cut the lamb into bite sized pieces and marinate with garlic and a little bit of ginger. After marinating, put some oil in a large frying pan, add onion, and sauté for two to three minutes until brown. Put the marinated lamb into the pan, stir while adding a little bit of salt. To add flavor, add fresh diced tomatoes and mild green chi...
This video demonstrates how to make Italian pasta salad for over 100 people. Start with sun dried tomatoes. Reconstitute them in hot water. Slice and dice up mozzarella and provolone cheeses. Then slice and dice Genoa salami into small pieces. Repeat with sopressata. Chop up marinated artichoke hearts. Add canned black olives, Kalamata olives and green olives. Next, fill a large bowl with tricolored Rotelli pasta. Drain the tomatoes and add them to the pasta. Mix in all the other ingredients....
In this Food video tutorial you will learn how to make chicken curry or butter chicken using Kashmiri meat masala. Masala means spices. Ingredients are 1-2 tablespoons regular sour cream or plain yoghurt, 11/2 tablespoons Kashmiri Meat Masala, 1-2 tablespoons tomato paste, little bit of ground ginger and chilly, one pound of chicken boneless, curry leaves, cooking oil and one green chilly. Add oil in a pan and heat over low heat, add spice, tomato paste, yoghurt and stir and make a thick past...
Jen Spencer teaches how to save money by making a Ribbon Tree at home. You can create this by using some of your ribbon scraps. Cut them into two inch strips, you'll need scissors, a hot glue gun, and a green floral tree. They come in a variety of sizes and also white. Fold the strip in half making a loop. Add a dab of glue on the end and close it. Jen warns be careful with the glue gun. Do that with all the ribbon strips. Place a little glue on the tree and glue the strips on. On top you can...
Chef Stephen Gibbs shows you a good cooking technique: blanching and shocking vegetables. Blanching is letting vegetables in hot, boiling water for a short period of time. Shocking is putting hot vegetables in ice cold water. These methods are used together in order to precook certain vegetables or even take the skin off.
In this Computers & Programming video tutorial you will learn how to use Mac's zoom button. Most of the new users of Mac think the small green button on top left corner of a window is to maximize the window to the full screen. But, in Mac there is no maximize button. This button is called the zoom button. What this button does is to maximize the window to fit the content rather than the full screen. If you go full screen, what you will get is extra white space. There is no short cut key for t...
This simple tutorial teaches you how to create a classic 8-bit Luigi from the Nintendo franchise Super Mario Brothers in the Microsoft paint program. To start, open Paint. Select Image-> Attributes and change the image width to 12 pixels and the height to 16 pixels. Use the zoom tool to zoom in 8x and select the paint bucket tool to make the background gray, because a large portion of Luigi is white. Then use the pencil tool (set to 1 pixel) to begin drawing Luigi starting with his black shoe...
The old frame of the wreath of a previous year containing only two old ornaments is used. Placed on the frame are plastic bags from the grocery store . The bags were green in color however colored bags may be used for creativity . Fluff and fold the bags and wrap them around the frame. Nearly a dozen bags are used. A boy is made using two pieces of the same cloth of a complimenting color to that of the wreath, to form a bow. The bow is attached to wreath and placed on the outside part of a do...
Ken Alston shows how to germinate Japanese maple tree seeds. The most important thing is to always buy fresh seeds. Seeds that are bought on eBay or other unreliable sellers are dry and lifeless and the chances of germination are not very good. The video shows the huge difference between the dry seeds and the fresh seeds. On the fresh seeds you can see that the roots are already out and in some cases the leaves are out, so from this point the rest is easy. Have little seed pots ready, make sm...
This video tutorial from JdudeTutorials presents how to download a torrent for the first time.To start, open your Internet browser. Browse to utorrent web page.Download and install uTorrent client version, suitable for your operating system (MacOS or Windows).Once you've installed application, browse to The Pirate Bay.This is the largest torrent source in the world.Check Video option under the search bar and type family guy (as an example).Click Enter. A list of torrents connected to family g...
In this how-to video, you will learn how to draw Ned Flanders from The Simpsons. First, start off with the basic outline of the body. Use simple shapes for this. Next, fill in the eyes, hair, nose, mustache, ears, and mouth of the figure. From there, you can move on to the details of the clothing such as the collar and cuffs of the sweater. Finish with the shoes and the fingers on the hand. The basic outline is finished. Now, go in and erase the simple shapes from the drawing and fill in more...
This video illustrate us how to draw the incredible hulk. Here are the following steps:Step 1: First of all take a sheet of paper, pencil and pencil color.Step 2: Now draw a square with round edges representing the face of the hulk. Within the face draw eyes and a big mouth and hairy eyebrows.Step 3: Now from the bottom of the circle draw an oval with wavy structure on it showing the six-pack abs of the hulk.Step 4: Now from the down side of the abdomen extend two legs with muscular legs and ...
This video shows how to find the equation of the line perpendicular and parallel to a given line. The video starts off with an example, given the lines and the slopes (m). When 2 lines are parallel to each other, they have the same slope. When 2 lines are perpendicular to each other, the slopes multiplied together will give -1. Knowing these rules, the tutorial maker provides an example with numbers. He then leads each step of the process. Each step is written out in either black, red, blue o...
This short one-minute tutorial shows you how to record an audio file using Skype and Pamela software. This feature may be convenient for those who would like to have a recorded audio of their conference call or an interview conversation to be able to go back to it at a later time. In order to be able to record a call via Skype, you need to install Pamela Call Recorder software. After the software is installed and ready to be used, hit the green button in Skype to call and click Record button ...
Danielle Proud shows and discusses her version of how to reinvent the Christmas wreath. She uses black spray paint to highlight the leaves that she uses. After she sprays the leaves with the black spray paint she sprinkles glitter on to the painted areas of the leaves. Using a circular wreath frame she creates her vivid modern Christmas wreath. She makes sure to give you step by step instructions on her vision. When it is all said and done she shows you a finished wreath she has made using he...
In this how-to video, you will learn how to create a lucky charm. It is a symbol of good luck among the Irish. You will need a baking sheet, green polymer clay, a paper clip, pencil, and a key ring. Roll three one inch balls from the clay. Shape them into the clover leaves. Next, put them on a baking sheet and stick the pointed ends together. Set a paper clip in the center and flatten a piece of clay to seal the paper clip in. Draw lines in the center of the leaves with the pencil. Bake it ac...
Terry of Daily Eats shares an easy and delicious baked salmon recipe for a delightful meal. Ingredients: fresh salmon, squeezed lemon juice, white pepper, sea salt, garlic salt, chopped parsley, oregano, paprika, melted butter, dry sherry, rice - Whole Grain Blends (roasted pecan and garlic flavor made by Near East) 1. Put salmon in a baking pan and add chopped parsley, white pepper, salt, lemon juice, garlic salt, oregano, melted butter and dry sherry. 2. Place pan in the oven and bake dish ...
This video shows how to make a mini salad out of clay. The first thing you do is get a very thin large green oval shaped piece of clay. Then add details to make it look like real lettuce. You can put some holes in it and tear it up a but. Then put it in a pan and with a blow dryer heat it up until it hardens up. After you heated it tear it up in very small pieces. Then get small pieces of orange clay and cut it up small to. This will be the carrots. Mix it all together and but some tls which ...
This video is pretty clear in describing how to make slime using glue, water, and fabric starch. I don't recommend children watch this because Sean Shameless (the host) adds unnecessary cursing into the instructions. The most important thing to remember in this video is that this slime stains. Sean Shameless also advises the children to not tell their parents about using the fabric starch which tells me that they really should not be doing it. Sean than explains what the possible uses of slim...
