Character Animation Theories And Principles

Light & Dark

I know you are all looking at this image and wondering, uh you lost it or something? I see no fancy colors, no stylized brushwork ugh argh why waste my time with this? Well, I think you'll all be surprised in where this goes. So here ...

What is Gimbal Lock and why Does it Occur?

What is gimbal lock? Gimbal lock is the phenomenon of two rotational axis of an object pointing in the same direction. Simply put, it means your object won't rotate how you think it ought to rotate. Gimbal lock is frus...

Human Head

It's important that you take the time to walk through and complete the Understanding 3D Form tutorial before you're ready to take this next step. Anyone who thinks they are beyond the basics presented there is kidding themselves, myself included. No mat...

Puppets

Having spent several years building and animating both stop-motion and CG puppets I can honestly say that not all characters are created equally. With today's software the same character model can be set up many different ways but, only a few will be useful to the a...

Texture

Start off by making a new Document, I used 200x200 Pixels... but it doesnt matter. 1. Start off by Going to Filter > render > Clouds, And then Filter > render > Difference Clouds. 2. Then goto Filter > Distort > Ocean Ripple, And then Filter > Distort > Wave, And use the S...