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...

Swift 3D is the most versatile tool for creating web-ready 3D animations for use with Macromedia Flash. Through the combination of an easy-to-use interface, the industry standard vector exporter and a full ray tracing rendering engine, Swift 3D enables 3D novices and veterans alike to quickly create...

Animating a walk, where do we begin. Well first we need a character. For today's lesson we're going to use Mr.Stickman. Next we need a clear and simple method of approaching walks in general. I didn't come up with the techn...

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 ...

The early days of Swift 3D sort of remind me of the early days of Flash. People were so excited to finally have a great new tool to create cutting edge Web content, but were often struggling to find the best uses for that content.

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...

The hands, along with the face should recieve careful attention. for one thing, aside from the head, they are usually the only other exposed part of the body. Secondly, they are equally as expressive in gesture, emotion and action. ...

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...

Also known as Float expressions in Max, mathematical expressions are expressions that can be used to control such things as object parameters (length, width, etc.), transform (rotation, position, scale) and modifier values, mapping coordinat...

Anyone serious about having a website needs to know something about HTML, the computer code of websites.
HTML is a simple language - although some native speakers would argue that so is Swahili - it is made up of characters from your keyboard. No fancy heiroglyphics.