Maya is one of the most powerful 3D asset creation programs in the world. It is also fantastically difficult to use. This seven-part video will teach you how to model an interior environment using Maya. All this video covers is modeling, nothing on lighting or any of the other features in Maya, but it is very detailed and should have you modeling like a pro!
If you just purchased an Android enable mobile device with Bluetooth, then one of the main objectives you'll have on your to-do list is to set it up in your vehicle for hands-free dialing and phone calls. Activating Bluetooth inside your car is easy, and all you need to remember is a little number called zero. Actually, you need to remember it 4 times — Best Buy has answers. The Best Buy Mobile team explains how simple it is to activate Bluetooth settings on an Android cell phone.
A Mandala is a sacred part of meditation. Instead of searching everywhere to purchase one, this tutorial will show you how to make your own, and feel spiritually closer to your creation.
Windows 7 is the hot, new operating system replacing the past XP and Vista systems. Windows 7 is the most simplified, user-friendly version that Microsoft has developed - ever. Get acquainted with your new version of Windows straight from Microsoft.
Windows Media Player 12 is ONLY available for Windows 7 (sorry Vista and XP users), but with it's functionality, it may be worth the upgrade (if you haven't already). This video outlines a few of the simple tasks that WMP12 can perform in W7.
Lady GaGa is back, and "Born This Way" is taking the music world by storm like each of her songs does. This video will teach you how to play a nice piano cover of it and impress your friends. It's also pretty easy, so beginners are welcome!
Play remotely with all your friends, stream videos and music from the Internet or even check your Facebook and email - all with your PSP. The PSP has Internet capability, but not every network will be available to you at all times. Here is how you can hack any wifi connection with your PSP.
Britney Spears' new track "Hold It Against Me," with its gyrating bass beats and trace influence, is the logical musical evolution for the greatest pop princess of all time. In the music video, she wears a very simple yet attractive makeup look featuring sculpted features, long lashes, and glossy pink lips. Check out this makeup tutorial by Lauren Luke to learn how to get the look.
P!nk's new music video for "F**kin' Perfect" may veer on the sad, angry side, but her makeup is all feminine and chic.
Learn how to edit videos in this quick and easy tutorial. Use iMovie in this project to make a 5x5, which is a series of 5-second video clips compiled together into a 25-second video project. This tutorial details the various steps of video editing, including importing footage, arranging clips in the timeline, trimming & cutting, editing sound & music, adding text effects and exporting to a video sharing site like Vimeo.
When editing digital footage within Windows Live Movie Maker, it's important that you not forget that you're not working in a strictly visual medium—that is, you should also give some consideration to your movie's soundtrack. This clip from Vimeo's excellent Video 101 covers how to do basic sound editing within Movie Maker.
In this clear how-to video, ukulele master Glen Rose introduces the viewer to a series a jazz chords and then shows how to put them altogether to play a jazzy little number. Get strumming people, your uke awaits new music.
Wondering how to show your family the 26,000 photos of recent trip to Mauritius? Well, it's easy with Apple's iPhoto 11, and this step-by-step tutorial. Select the photos you want, choose your delay time, add music and it's showtime! You won't have the overheating projector lights and the click-clack of the slide carousel, but you WILL have a much happier audience.
Come on! Ukuleles are NOT just for Hawaiian music! Bust out your uke, put on your Santa cap and get those carols rolling. This tutorial by Michael Lynch shows you how to play a sweet solo for Silent Night on your trusty ukulele. From aloha to aloho ho ho!
Relax eco-friendly sisters: No real cigarettes were used in the making of these cigarette glasses craft. Check out this crafting video to learn how to make a striking replica of the smoking cigarette glasses Lady Gaga wears in her "Telephone" music video.
If you're still rocking a 2nd generation iPod Touch, the frozen screen you have no is probably not the first problem you've had with it, Fortunately this one shouldn't be too hard to fix and this video will show you how to unfreeze you screen and get back to music.
Willow Smith, AKA Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith's progeny, is a girl with lots of talent (not to mention crazy style. She wore a leather jacket and faux hawk to a recent red carpet event).
Does traveling between the world's finest nightclubs getting paid to play music sound good to you? Then a career as an international superstar DJ may be for you. But where to start? This video might be a good place. It will teach you the basics of mixing two songs together using Ableton Live, the premier live sequencing and mixing software, to create your very first DJ mix.
Eminem is finally back in the hip-hop game, like we knew he would be, and the words "Slim Shady" are on the lips of music fans everywhere again. In this video you'll learn how to play Marshall's classic song "The Real Slim Shady" on piano.
Naruto Shippuden might be the most popular anime in the world right now (although Bleach might argue) and it's high production values are reflected in it's great music. This video will teach you how to play the song "Nagareboshi" from OST to the show on piano.
Replicate the old arcade games like Pac Man or Galaga by downloading the free software Gamemaker 7.0. After you've downloaded the program, create your own sprites in an image editor, use the sounds already provided in the software and finally load your background. Then set up your game script, and you have your own arcade-style video game!
If you're transferring from Guitar to Ukulele or if you're just starting with Ukulele and kind of want to understand how the notes on the fretboard, the music theory behind everything and also some techniques for remembering each of the fret letters and how to build chords.
If you already own a copy of a song, it's silly to pay again for rights to use it as a cell phone. Especially in light of how easy it is to create custom, free ringtones with the latest iteration of Apple's digital music jukebox, iTunes 10. Take a look.
Logic can be a powerful tool for tracking, and even mixing! If you're curious about Logic Pro 9's capabilities as a mixing tool, check this out! In this video you will learn how to create a dynamic mix for your music by using automation controls to allow you to raise and edit fader positions as well as points where the fader goes up and down on top of many other great things!
Funk, R&B, Blues, these are the styles of music that grooves the hardest and are the most about feel and less about technicality. Not only that, but the various inversions and triad groupings used in those styles can easily be transferred into Rock, Pop, Jazz, Metal and so many other styles. In this fantastic video lesson you will learn the basics to playing rhythm guitar in these styles.
On mission 7 in Halo: Reach, there is an awesome hidden easter egg for the highly perceptive person. If you're a fan of house music, or if you're looking to have a good time with some grunts, check out this hidden rave easter egg! In this video you'll get the location of two switches that will activate this easter egg hidden in mission 7!
One of the features of new music-editing software Reason 5 is the ability to 'block' your song. You can label each segment of the song as intro, chorus, verse, break or solo to make your song easier for both musicians and non-musicians to navigate.
The time stretch feature on Reason's music-editing software can create some very interesting sounds when you push the program to the limits of what it can do. Slow down or speed up your clips dramatically and get an entirely different sound.
Before you endeavor to make these stylish sunglasses, you should note that they're intended more for decor and play (think Lady Gaga's memorable smokey cigarette glasses in her music video for "Telephone") than for actual wear.
In this tutorial, learn all about your new Sony Dash and discover how to use it as a music player by accessing Pandora. In this clip, presented by Sony, you will receive a speedy walk-through so that you can set up Internet radio on your Dash and take it with you whereever you go! Who needs an iPad, when you have Dash?
In this tutorial, learn how to get Katy Perry's blue haired punky style from her new music video, "California Gurls". This video (featuring Snoop Dogg) is one of her most anticipated clips yet and is definitely a popcorn and bubblegum trip down Candy Land Lane. So, if you are looking for a cute, girly look to go out in, follow along. And don't forget to complete the look with daisy dukes with a bikini on top!
The beauty of the iPod Touch is that it is not only for music. With the iTouch, you can access the Internet as well. You can use this Internet capability to download from iTunes, get e-mail, surf the web and many more options. In this tutorial, learn exactly how to turn your iPod on to a WiFi network so that you can take advantage of all the features your new device has to offer.
Not since Lady Gaga's "Telephone" Coke Cans and Madge brow'n'lips has a music video makeup look been so universally dissected and copied by YouTube makeup savant.
Popularized by artists like Son House and Skip James, Delta blues is not only one of the oldest forms of blues music, it is among the most stylistically distinct and technically rewarding to play. In this video guitar lesson from YouTube user deltabluestips, you'll learn how to play Tommy Johnson's "Canned Heat Blues" on the guitar.
Lady Gaga's Coke can curls may have stolen the spotlight in the telephone call scene in her music video for "Telephone," but her Madonna-inspired brows and sexy lined eyes were just as bold and daring.
Beautiful chanteuse Beyoncé is gorgeous without makeup and thus keeps her red carpet looks pretty basic. But when she collaborated with the famously riotous performer Lady Gaga for Lady Gaga's music video for "Telephone," she stepped up her avante-garde game.
Bono is such an avid and compassionate activist that we often forget that he makes good music, too. Learn how to rock his classic alternative rock anthem "One" by checking out this tutorial.
In this video, learn how to create Avril Lavigne's look from her "Alice Underground" music video on your own! Avril made this song for the new "Alice in Wonderland" movie by Tim Burton and you can definitely see the Alice inspiration behind the look.
Knowing just the basic steps in any form of dance can get you by if you are going out to a dance club/event that plays music you have never danced to before. In any form of dance you can apply a count to as to how many steps there are to perform a basic move. To perform a basic step in salsa dancing, there is a 7 step count. Practice and you will look like a natural
The Sony PSP is one of the most useful little pieces of video game technology to hit the market in some time. It has pretty sweet graphics, can play music, and store some of your favorite videos. In this tutorial, the people from cnet will show you how to convert videos from your computer to play in your Sony PSP. Good luck and enjoy!
