This video will show you how to create a 3D cartoon character using a website called Xtranormal. In the program, you should first pick the scene where you want your action to occur as well as the 3D character which you would like to be present in the scene. You can then type a script and choose a voice for the character to speak. The website will be able to read your script and your character will say whatever you have typed. Next, you can add additional sounds and add actions to the cartoons...
Cosplay is a fine art these days, and if you want to get into it, deciding which of the thousands of characters you have to choose from to cosplay as can be tough. Making a good costume is hard work, so you want to make sure you choose the right character for you before you invest your time and money. This video features several regular cosplayers giving you all sorts of tips and advice for picking your character based on body type, personality, and other factors.
If all guitarists did was play chords with a single strum or individually pick notes, the music industry - and guitar music - would be dead as we know it. Some of our favorite songs, both past and present, are so memorable because they vary the articulation of notes on the guitar. This means that rather than boringly stick with the same strumming pattern they include cool sounding tricks like pull-offs and hammer-ons.
A cascading shower of M&M's sounds like a dream come true! Bert Monroy of Pixel Perfect shows you how to illustrate and style M&M's using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. Whether you're new to computer graphics, new to Adobe Photoshop CS4 or a seasoned design professional just looking to pick up a few new tips and tricks, you're certain to like this free video software tutorial. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started making your own chocolate c...
Learn to create an erupting volcano with spewing and falling lava, smoke and highlights! This clip from PixelPerfect will show you how it's done. Whether you're new to computer graphics, new to Adobe Photoshop CS4 or a seasoned design professional just looking to pick up a few new tips and tricks, you're certain to like this free video software tutorial. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started making your own volcanic eruptions in Photoshop, wat...
Bobby pins have been integral tools in a girl's makeup case since the 1920s, when bobby pins were used to secore the fashionable hair bobs of the Jazz Age. They've also recently been used by young boys and hackers to pick open locks. And now you can add one more fun use to the list.
Learn how to use a little bit of Photoshop and little bit of Imageready to add video to a normal graphic file. This is great for all sorts of things like video signatures and short video clips for your site!Whether you're new to Adobe's popular image editing software or simply looking to pick up a few new tips and tricks, you're sure to benefit from this free video tutorial from TutVids. For more information, including step-by-step instructions on how to add video to image files with Photosho...
Into abstract art? Have Photoshop and a little spare time? This video demonstrates how to create a neat motion-streaking effect. Whether you're new to Adobe's popular image editing software or simply looking to pick up a few new tips and tricks, you're sure to benefit from this free video tutorial from TutVids. For more information, including step-by-step instructions on how to recreate this effect for yourself, watch this graphic designer's guide. Download the photo used in this tutorial rig...
There are few features as difficult to touch up as eyes – and, what's worse, most people have two of them! Learn to retouch eyes with this Photoshop how-to. Whether you're new to Adobe's popular image editing software or simply looking to pick up a few new tips and tricks, you're sure to benefit from this free video tutorial from TutVids. For more information, including step-by-step instructions on how to enhance eyes in a digital photograph, watch this graphic designer's guide.
Are your digital photos missing something? Could it be fairy dust? In this tutorial, you'll learn how to create a custom brush to paint randomized sparkles to create a fantasy effect. Want to separate a foreground object from its background? Whether you're new to Adobe's popular image editing software or simply looking to pick up a few new tips and tricks, you're sure to benefit from this free video tutorial from TutVids. For more information, including step-by-step instructions on how to cre...
Sarah East from Grocery School gives a lesson on how to buy fresh asparagus. Look for straight, firm stalks with dark green or purple tips. It is best to choose stalks the same size so they will cook uniformly, though the size does not affect the flavor.
According to Gordon Ramsey there are only a few but very important steps to take when cooking a rib eye steak.The first thing to remember is that the tools and seasonings are almost as important as the main dish.You should pick out ingredients that are as fresh as possible such as rosemary,olive oil,salt,pepper,garlic and butter.You can let god quality tools like a knife and griddle do most of your work for you.And lastly you should choose a quality side dish like artichokes to make your rib ...
This video is a demonstration of how to play a drinking game called flip cup. You'll need a stack of 16 oz. plastic beer cups, a long table, and beer. First pick two teams of four to ten players. Teams stand on opposite sides of the table and fill the cups with beer. The lead players drink, then set the cup down so that part of it is off the edge of the table. Then they flip the cups so that they land upside down on the table. The next player on each team has to wait until their teammate has ...
When sitting down to eat a Japanese meal, you will often be offered a warm towel. This is to be used to wash your hands. You should accept the towel and wash your hands with it. Fold the towel back up to look the way it was when it was given to you.
Fresh veggies are the tastiest way to eat right. They are delicious, as fresh as can be, nutritious and best of all.. free! In addition to all of that, you get the satisfaction of growing your dinner all by yourself. In this tutorial, learn how to plant four vegetables that are so easy anyone can grow them. Even the most inexperienced gardener will be able to make these four veggies grow.
Racquetball is a very fun way to keep active, and is not very difficult to play. In this tutorial, the Texas Tech Racquetball Club will take you from beginner to professional in just a few minutes.
This video shows you how to excavate a pond using hand tools and a jackhammer.First of all, you must organize your digging in shelves. A pond should have some parts deeper than others. You start by leveling the pond at the part where it will be more shallow (thus creating the first shelf). Then go to a deeper part and level that out. In this way you create shelves with different elevations.Your tools for excavating are the spade, the flat shovel, the pick, the wheelbarrow and the jackhammer. ...
Ming Tsai with Simply Ming explains some shrimp basics. When you prep shrimp, you have to de-vein it, and you have to take the shell off. First cut off the head. Take a knife and slice sideways through the shell. Take out the vein, then get 3 bowls of water and add salt to 2 of them. After de-veining, put the shrimp in the first bowl of water. Keep adding shrimp until you get about a half pound of shrimp, or however much you wish to cook. Then peel the shrimp, and put it into the second bowl....
This card trick is called Serenade of the Kings. Make two piles of four cards. The first pile contains all kings, and we set these face down (except for the leader king in front) on the table in a star shape. The other pile contains four black spot cards that help us do our magic. Burying the kings into the black spot cards, one by one, shows that they disappear into the pile with a little twist and shake. Now we place the kings and black cards in four different piles of two, but once we pick...
Andy Field performs the top shot card trick in this video. To begin this card trick, first a spectator is needed to name a card, not pick a card (this instruction is repeated several times throughout the video to emphasize importance). The card chosen is the five of clubs. He asks if the viewer would like it done fast or very fast, and opts to do it "very fast but in slow motion." Next the deck is shuffled, and held in one hand. He snaps his fingers with the available hand, and the correct ca...
Garden of Imagination demonstrates very simple method of how to make miniature doughnuts from polymer clay. There are three varieties of doughnuts made sprinkled, glace and chocolate covered. These are very simple round doughnut. For this we need a plastic clay measure which has balls of different size. We have to start off with a little piece of clay, put in size E of the clay measure. Always put some extra and slice it off. Take it out. Make it into the size of a ball with your hands. Now m...
The Lynda Podcast teaches viewers how to composite a video using Autodesk Toxik program. First, you need to import your footage so go to file and import. Import the files that you would like to composite together. Now that you have your files, you should arrange them in the order that you want to composite them. What you want to be first, should be on top. To composite, add in a rendering not by right clicking and click add to pick list. You can pick 'Blend and comp' to composite the files to...
Achievement Hunter presents how to do power drift in Sonic & Sega All-Stars Cart Racing Part 1. To pick up the drifting achievement, all you have to do is drift for 15 seconds continuously. In order to drift, you hold down the left trigger. The narrator informs us that you can switch from drifting to the left to drifting to the right if you bounce off the wall, so it does not have to be all one direction. He said that the first time he did it, he drifted on the last few turns of the race. Tha...
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to perform a sumo squat. It is the same as a regular squat, except the legs are extended more wider. The bar should be setup a little bit below your shoulder level. Go into a split stance when picking up the bar. Keep your core muscles tight and keep the bar stabilized. Spread the legs wide, pass the shoulder width. This exercise target the leg muscles and helps strengthen them. Inhale when going up and exhale when going down. This video will benefit ...
In this Magic & Parlor Tricks video tutorial you will see the "dyslexic queens" card trick. The 4 queens are laid out on the table face down; three in one line and the 4th below the top line. To each queen 3 red cards are added. These cards are between 1 to 10; no jacks or kings. Now the top 3 stacks are picked up one by one shuffled and when turned over, the queen has vanished. All the 4 queens are found in the 4th stack. Then the 4 stacks are put face down with 4 queens in the 4th stack. On...
This is an old time blues great by Mississippi Fred McDowell. So pick up your blues guitar and join along in recreating this classic. Watch this video to see how to play "You've Got to Move" by Fred McDowell.
Well, say this three times fast! "Double-handed, hand holds". That should be a salsa tongue twister. Watch this video to go over a couple of slick ways of getting out of two-handed holds in combos.
James, also known as Tbone Wilson, shows you how to play Street Spirit by Radiohead. With an acoustic guitar you begin the intro on A minor, then pick 5, 3, 1, 3, 2, half finger up. On your picking hand you need to hold your pinkie down to contact the hardboard deck of your guitar's face, this makes it easier. Repeat the sequence four times for the intro. Move to the E minor repeating the number sequence twice, then the E minor 7 (repeat sequence twice), first finger is on the second string, ...
If you're not one to trust you digital SLR camera's automatic focus options, then the only thing you have to do is go to manual mode. With the Canon EOS 7D, select the Manual AF Point Selection and take control. It allows you to pick the area you want to focus on.
Need help with Satellite Uplinks in Battlefield: Bad Company 2 on the Xbox 360? Jack and Geoff from Achievement Hunter give you this two-part video guide on finding all 24 M-Com Stations. In the first video, see the locations of the first 12 M-COM Stations that you must explode for great glory! Part two of this tutorial reveals the last 12 locations, along with the location of the Holy Grail. They also finally break that barrier and hug each other. And they also pick up the Complete Blackout ...
In this video from theXBox360GameReview we learn how start and join an Xbox Live party. Once signed into Xbox live, scroll to the friends channel, and select the friend you want to have your party with and press Y. Now that you have a party going, you can play some Halo wars. If you want more friends to join the party go to your friends list using the guide button and tap X to select who you want to invite. If you want everyone in the party join in, select Party and choose Invite Party to gam...
Changing your car's cabin filter and air filter is a really important part of its regular maintenance. Doing this simple maintenance task does not require a professional mechanic, so save your money and watch this video to start saving money today and changing your own cabin and air filters. This video specifically covers changing the cabin and air filter in a Honda Element. You can pick up the parts from your local Honda dealer. Typically, you should change your filters every two years.
Find out the solution to the 5th puzzle in Assassin's Creed 2. For set one, the hint here is “cut,” so pick the five paintings that feature swords. For set two, what do the people in these paintings lean on? That’s right – pick out the images that feature staffs. For more info, watch the whole gameplay.
Try your hands at one of the first puzzles in Assassin's Creed 2. “Core?” “Pick?” That’s a dead giveaway right there. Just pick out all the paintings that contain apples. For more info, watch the whole gameplay.
Can't stand all that pesky change jingling around in your pockets? DuctTapeStuff shows us how to take care of that problem by building an inventive, origami-style coin pouch out of duct tape. Silver not your color? Pick up duct tape in different colors to build one that suits your own personal style.
Watch this video tutorial to learn how to do polyphasic sleeping. How often have you said, “If only there were more than 24 hours in a day!” By learning to polyphasic sleep—meaning breaking up a night’s sleep into a series of shorter naps—you can squeeze an extra whole day out of the week.
Learn how to crack open a coconut. Release this tropical treat from its hard-as-a-rock shell without needing a machete.
See how to build a weatherproof compact high gain WiFi antenna for under fifteen dollars! This homemade WiFi antenna should be enough for most applications, since it's three times more powerful than a standard antenna.
Check out this episode of Brian Brushwood's Scam School from Revision3 to find out how to pull the best cons, bar scams and magic tricks. It's rare to find a trick that you can actually fool yourself with...and that's exactly what you get with this episode!
Check out Systm's calibration lesson to make your HDTV a great as it was intended. PCMag's HDTV expert, Robert Heron, teaches us top notch HDTV calibration tricks using tools anybody can afford!
