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We’ve been doing tests with 3 popular 3D scanners here at work.

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So here’s a quick way to scale a GameObject with a slider (in C#)
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Here is a brief outline and example of how to create a control panel for animations in Maya 2013. Read the rest of this entry »

Here are a list of basic instructions and tips for creating a particle flow along a path. This works great for a swarm look. Read the rest of this entry »

I gave up on exporting Adobe Flash movies years ago, for two reasons. Because the final movie looked so fuzzy / bad / compressed, and because my movieclips didn’t play at all (I thought i’d have to do every animation as new keyframes, with no repeated clips). I’ve figured out both of these problems (and will include export settings below).
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How to Instance Mesh with Particles – PDF

Above is a PDF guide I created that has step by step screenshot examples of how to instance a mesh and apply it to the particles of a particle emitter.

Below are the easy steps to doing this:

To instance a single object to particles

1. Select source geometry.
2. Shift-select the particle shape.
3. Select Particles > Instancer (Replacement).
4. To hide the source geometry, select the geometry and select Display > Hide > Hide Selection.

(As a reminder make sure you put extra frames in your timeline so the particles have time to emit… I used 300 frames)

The last two pages of the PDF are examples of altering and scaling the mesh, all of the instanced particles will experience the same alterations as your source mesh.

This article discusses how to use in and out points with in the timeline along with the in and out points on the clip.

Three and Four Point Editing in Adobe Premiere Pro

this is a quick and easy tutorial on how to make animated pie charts. these can be easy additions to course content to help visualize data

I know you can snap a camera to a curve, but wondered how you’d handle switching between 2 curves. Here are two solutions:
http://www.creativecrash.com/forums/animation/topics/one-camera-attached-to-two-motion-paths

(a script to decide which motion path drives translation during which frames, or just keying the level of influence from multiple constraints).
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here’s a cool quick tutorial Calvin found:
http://cg.tutsplus.com/tutorials/autodesk-maya/animating-grass-and-flowers-using-paint-effects-in-maya/

Quick example after the break: 
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