Making fake scars, abrasions, lacerations, and other wounds is one of the most entertaining parts of special effects and makeup work. This video help you get started, teaching you how to make a really gross, festering, fresh-looking fake arm wound that will scare the pants off of your audience (if you use it for a movie) or your fellow revelers (for Halloween or another costumed occasion).
Have a certain someone special you'd like to impress? Show off your balloon twisting skills and make the apple of your eye a super neat balloon teddy bear. Your Balloon Man, Mr. Fudge, is full of balloon tricks! Be sure to find other balloon videos on WonderHowTo from Mr. Fudge teaching everything from animals to planes! In a few twists and a few ties, you'll be an expert balloon maker in no time!
Don't waste time at the store looking for the perfect photo album to put your vacation photos in. If you have iPhoto, you can do everything right from your computer. This Apple iLife tutorial shows you how to choose, organize and edit your photos, add them to a collection and turn them into a full color photo book. You do the work in iPhoto, then send it off to Apple to be professionally printed and bound - no cheesy Hallmark photo album necessary!
The landscape for mobile augmented reality apps is still mostly filled with utility and gaming apps, but a new entrant into the space is looking to pull children into the mix.
During the holidays, usually one of the hardest decisions you'll ever make when decorating your tree is whether you want to top it all off with a star or an angel. If an angel is your tree topper of choice this year, why not make it extra special by making it yourself?
This is one of those hairstyles we remember throwing together at the last moment before grabbing our books and jetting off to school. As simple as they come, this low messy bun basically involves hastily putting together a bun and then adding a headband for chicness.
If you're an arts and crafts fanatic then you probably have more than your fair share of ribbons lying all around the house. You snip off one long piece from the roll and then you have to go and tape it to itself again to keep everything in place, and then eventually you give up and the remaining ribbon ends up in an odds-and-ends jar.
Here's how to zombify your sims in Sims 3 without cheating! Kill off one of your sims, and then give another one a job working with the paranormal. Once they've been promoted high enough, you can find the special resurrection phone... a direct line to the Grim Reaper. Buy back your dead sim, and he'll return as a zombie!
In this video, Dina Prioste shows us how to your booty with a yoga wall-sit chair pose. Start off by sitting flat against the wall with your feet hip width apart. Hold this position for a few breaths. You shouldn't be sitting on an actual chair, just an invisible one. Now, grab a book and place it between your thighs, then squeeze as hard as you can while still breathing and focusing as much as you can. When finished, take a break and get back into the position and do that same move once agai...
Give her a Valentine's Day gift that will last forever by making this romantic red, pink, and white polymer clay Valentine's Day heart shaped cake.
This video teaches the viewer how to make a memo book with a paper bag. For this craft you will need two paper bags, memo paper, adhesive, ribbon, and scissors. To begin, you'll need to cut off the bottom of the bag and discard it. She explains where to make decorative edges on the bags before sewing them together or using hot glue. Fold and crease the open end down about one third of the way. Open and then fold a little farther down to allow room for the spine of your memo book. Repeat this ...
The next time you're at a bar, and you find that special someone that you just can't let go, don't let her slip away to another drunkard, propose to her! But wait, you don't have a ring! Well, make a redneck ring to show her you really care.
In this organic cooking how-to video with the Hippy Gourmet, we visit an off-the-grid solar home where we meet Renee Loux, raw chef to the stars. Renee creates a Vegan Tekka-Maki (or sushi) roll without rice! Watch as she uses a simple blend of sesame seeds, ginger and special seasonings, this awesome veggie roll comes to life! Try making this vegan avocado and asparagus maki roll at home.
First off, a bit of explanation. The hypershade in Maya is a quick way to create and connect rendering nodes, which include textures, materials, lights, and special effects. Hypershade is one of the most important features in Maya to learn and master.
Before you start sculpting in Pixologic's Zbrush 3.1 3D modeling software, you'll want to have references to follow by. So, check out this video to see how to use Andrew Loomis's art books for referencing while sculpting in Zbrush. You'll see where to get Loomis's books on the Internet and what best to work with for your 3D digital animation. Modeling with Zbrush will be a breeze if you have reference to go off of, because you need it.
Watch and learn how to tone your shoulders with four easy exercises. Our host uses weights but you can also use books or cans if you don't have any. Start with military shoulder presses and finish off with lateral raises.
Doodles are fun, but turn them into a flipbook and they spring to life on the page—your flower blooms, your rocketship blasts off, or, if your doodles are a little on the primitive side, sure: your stick figure walks.
See how the Nintendo Wii's Nunchaku and Wiimote controllers make playing Mortal Kombat easier that ever. you can pull off special moves just by flicking your wrist.
New to Photoshop CS3? Very special guest Russell Preston Brown aka Dr. Brown shows off the new Clone Source panel in Photoshop CS3. See how this creative genius takes the Clone Source feature to a whole new level.
In this tutorial, we learn how to make a gift basket of healthy stuff for a pregnant mom. First, go to Whole Foods Market, which carries everything that you need! First, think about what your mommy needs and what she is going to need after she has a baby! First, place in some books that have to do with pregnancy. Then, stock the basket with some supplements, prenatal vitamins, organic teas, a loofa, ginger pills, and bath salts. Once you give this to your expecting mom, she will thank you and...
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to receive the "Hunter Special" and "Alchemist Special" achievements in the video game, Prince of Persia. To receive the Hunter Special achievement, users will need to deflect the Hunter's attack 5 times in one battle. To deflect an attack, press the Right Trigger as the same time the Hunter attacks you. To receive the Alchemist Special achievement, users will need to defeat the Alchemist without using the acrobatic button. Only use the X button to fi...
Preserve the modesty of your fresh batch of Devil's food cupcakes by sheathing them in layers of icing and shaping them into fun animal shapes! While we love plain cupcakes, decorating cupcakes for special events like holidays and parties helps get your food in line with the theme and decor and will make guests smile.
Cool tips and tricks on Facebook give you some extra edge on others. This trick will demonstrate that how to talk to your special loved ones that no one else can understand.
Don't know if that special girl across the room is interested in you? Follow these proven body language tips and you'll read her body language like a pro and know when she's interested, when's she's flirting, and when flirting isn't all that's on her mind.
After you finish Super Scribblenauts, there's still so much to do! That's where the special constellations come in! In this two-part video series you will get a full walkthrough of the second special constellation in Super Scribblenauts with all the solutions!
In this tutorial, we learn how to make a scrapbook about all of the books you've read. First, you will want to take a part from the pages that meant the most to you. Type out the text that was written, then glue it onto a similar sized piece of card stock. Adhere this to the top of a picture that has the same theme as the text that you just wrote out. After you do this, decorate your page even more until it's completely finished. You can also take pictures of the books that you have read and ...
Childcareland demonstrates how to make a Thanksgiving book of thanks with kids in this video. A book of thanks can be done by a group or an individual. It begins a title page which can be labeled to reflect whether it is an individual book called "My Book of Thanks" or an group book called "Our Book of Thanks" or a general book called "Book of Thanks". The back page is a blank match of the cover page. In the middle are five pages labeled "I'm thankful for" with a line for older children to wr...
If you're like me, you probably have a wishlist of Android games you'd love to buy, except the high price tags keep you away. A few bucks can feel like a fortune in the Google Play Store — you just can't bring yourself to pay that much. Well, lucky for you, Google Play has some serious discounts this Cyber Monday. There won't be a better time to buy these games, until next year, of course.
Maybe you're heading back to school, or maybe you just want to make sure that your book doesn't get damaged. In either case, this guide will teach you how to cover your book using a piece of paper as a bookcover so that your textbook is well protected.
Are you a fan of the wonderous creations of Tim Holtz? Would you like to make your own Holtz inspired see through book? This video is your guide to making a beautiful see through book full of the kind of magical decoration Tim Holtz is famous for.
Want to learn how to make your own comic book? This instructional video will teach you how to take your created character and their powers and enter them into a comic book world. The first step, is to decide whether your character will be acting as a hero or villain. Next, you must create the setting. This is followed by the conflict of the story. Finally, the resolution. The hero must defeat the villain and everything is back to normal. The video then takes you through a sample comic book an...
When working on the dashboard of any vehicle, make sure you disable the vehicle's airbag system first. Your service manual should tell you how to do that. In this video, the heater core is plugged up in a 2001 Ford Taurus, which means it needs to be taken out. The book states it will take 5 hours to complete, mostly because of the dash. But this trick will cut the time down to 1.5 hours. First, get you heater hoses off in the engine area. Then proceed to watch a mysterious bracket being cut o...
In this how-to video, you will learn how to make a paper snowflake. This is great for the winter. The best way to make a good snowflake is with the way you fold it. Start off with a square piece of paper. Fold the paper into a triangle. Now, fold the triangle along the height into another triangle. Take one of the lower corners and fold it 60 degrees. Fold the other side the remaining 30 degrees. Snip off the trails with scissors. Now, cut patterns into the sides of the paper. Unfold and then...
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to cite reference books in MLA formats. Citation is a reference to a published or unpublished source. Viewers will learn how to cite an article in an online reference book and an article in a print reference book. The format for the online reference book is:
This fantastic Halloween special effect makeup tutorial teaches you how to create a bloody bolt look using mostly MAC products. The artists teaches you how to create texture and create a distressed look with the base and color makeup. He applies the adhesive and attached the scar effects and adds the "bolt props" with the adhesive. He uses a purple and yellow pigments to distress the skin further. He then takes fire red to create the blood. He also shows you how to make realistic blood with s...
Duct tape is versatile and can be used for anything. But did you ever imagine that it can be used for making a book cover? Protect your books with sturdy duct tape. This tutorial shows you how to make a general book cover for a paperback using duct tape, but the process can be extended to cover any type of book. Protect all your books from damage with duct tape.
Lawrence Perez, from Saddleback College, and his assistant Charlie, give this two-part calculus lesson on integrating with special substitutions; rational functions with sine and cosines: Karl Weistrass method.
Keep your cookbook open to a recipe. Learn how to build a simple book stand in this free wood project video from a woodworking teacher.
There are a lot of videos out there that offer instructions for creating all sorts of fake wounds. Most of them, however, focus on cuts and gashes rather than that other devious and action-packed type of wound: the burn. This three-part video features detailed instructions for making a burn wound on your face or other body part using makeup and other household products. Now your characters get lit on fire and you can render the results accurately.
Through Thursday, January 20th, Borders is offering the Kobo Wireless eReader for $99 with coupon—that's $40 off its typical retail price of $139! Though the Kobo comes preloaded with 100 out-of-copyright classics, new users will nevertheless be interested in filling their new eReaders with their own books.
