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Easy Bullet Physics Keyframes. 3D Animation Tutorial

Learn an easy way of animating with physics keyframes in 3D animation. This tutorial was created in Carrara but the principles can be used in any 3D Animation.

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Walking up stairs from a BVH or Mocap walk loop Tutorial

How to animate walking up stairs from a BVH mocap walk loop using Carrara but works with any 3D Application. In this short (2 part) series I look at how to take any walk loop and edit it quickly so that the character walks up stairs.

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IES Lighting and easy editing for 3D apps

How to use IES Lighting in your 3D app and how to edit IES lights. (Use them for volumetric lighting). More info and examples at facebook.com/scififunk IES lighting (Illuminating Engineering Society file type to describe lighting volume, fall off and shape) can be used to add realism to your renders. After describing what IES is [...]

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Animated Textures onto Uv Mapped models Tutorial

How to animate your textures around UV Mapped models. Using the Blade Runner inspired Dirigible with an animated advert.

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Low Poly People Mass Walk Loops Tutorial

How to create walk loops for lots of low poly people, with separate walk loops so that they DON’T look like an army of robots.

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BVH Carnegie Mocap for DAZ Carrara Tutorial

How to effectively use the BVH mocap data from the Carnegie collection, with Poser Figures (DAZ, Carrara). Here I will show you how to cut down the large BVH files from the carnegie collection into fractions of their original size using BVH Hacker, and how to prep them for low poly (daz based) figures.

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