This tutorial takes a look at using normal maps to improve you textures—as well as looking at a quick use of Photoshop to make textures from photos. Whether you're new to MAXON's popular 3D modeling application or are just looking to get better acquainted with Cinema 4D and its various features and functions, you're sure to enjoy this free video software tutorial. For more information, and to get started using this trick in your own Cinema 4D projects, watch this 3D modeler's guide.
Creating beautiful 3D images in Maya is easier than doing so by hand, but not by much! This video will teach you how to use Maya to create a normal map form a high poly geometry easily using the render pass feature that came out in Maya 2009.
This video shows how to make an inside-out French braid across the front of the head. First divide the hair into three pieces like a normal braid at the very front off to one side. Instead of braiding the normal way, make the middle piece go over the top alternately on the left and right. Keep picking up more hair and adding it in, like you would do for a normal French braid. Continue braiding across the top front of the hair. The braids can be done tightly or loosely however you like, and th...
Spicy adidas is a Filipino dish using fried chicken feet and black beans. This video will demonstrate how to cook, combine and season all the ingredients to make some really Filipino cuisine. Chicken feet might seem a little out of the normal ingredient range for some people but just about anything is good fried, so grab some feet and start cooking.
This tutorial shows you how to generate normal maps to add depth to your textures in Maya.
Learn how to do the Charge Normal with this pen spinning tutorial.
Learn how to do the Thumbaround Normal with this pen spinning tutorial.
Learn how to do the Sonic Normal with this pen spinning tutorial.
Learn how to do the Fingerpass Normal with this pen spinning tutorial.
In case you didn't catch the big event in Cupertino, Apple just unveiled two of the most cutting-edge phones ever made — the iPhone 8 and the iPhone X. Out of the many glorious specs that were rattled off on stage, one stands out for being just a little confusing: Both models are rated IP67 under the IEC standard 60529.
In this video, we learn how to save your marriage by doing the opposite of normal. If you are married to someone, chances are you will have lots of things that are opposite of each other. To help out your marriage, you should start doing the opposite of what you normally do. This will help you match your partner so that you understand their likes better than you usually do. Do something that isn't normal and you will both be able to be committed to each other and enjoy each other better. Enjo...
Adjusting the rear derailleur on a bike is an important way to fine-tune your bike's shifting performance, but is complicated and can vary in method and effectiveness depending on the brand of derailleur. This video features instructions on how to adjust a low-normal rear derailleur using the adjustment screws.
Defending proper position in water polo is crucial in improving your water polo game. Establish your defensive position with your hips no lower than 18" in the water. This is so you don't get a penalty. This allows for optimal mobility. Keep a high hip and foot position to accelerate in any direction. Work to keep your hips up for the most time.
Protecting the ball in water polo is key to playing a solid game. This water polo instructional includes many drills designed to improve 1-1 play. It includes tips for both the water polo defense and attacker on how to protect the ball in play. This also refers to TV clips of league and pro games to connect it to actual game play.
Whether you’re the family suck-up or the family, uh, screw-up, there are bound to be complications with your brother or sister. Relax, it's normal to feel resentment. Set your own goals & recognize your own successes and strengths. Find a hobby you can share where there is no competition involved. Sibling rivalry is normal - learn how to deal with it.
Learn from Henry Joseph Hasson, MD., how to tell if your 2-year-old is normal.
Learn how to apply a normal map image onto a plane and tweak the effect in Blender.
After Effects allows you to do all sorts of amazing things to your videos and images, but it cannot do it all alone. This video will show you how to use an After Effects plugin called Normality 3 to make lighting adjustments to 3D assets on the fly, having already rendered out a normal pass using either Cinema 4D or Modo (you can use other 3D software too, but those two are both shown as examples in the video). It will also demonstrate how to render out the normal passes.
A Mastermorphix is sort of like a more intense version of a Rubik's Cube. This tutorial will show you how to solve this triangular puzzle. Basically, once you know how to solve a normal Rubik's Cube, you will be able to master this in no time.
A team of scientists might have just put Jellyfish Art out of business with their new cyborg jellyfish. By arranging the heart cells of a normal rat on a piece of silicone, they've successfully created their own Franken-jellies. When in salt water with a fluctuating electrical field, the rat's heart muscles on the rubbery silicone contract the lobes downward and back up, which mimics the pulsing movement of a young moon jellyfish swimming.
If you want to learn how to do the Water Polo Position Drills this is for you. The water polo swimming position is important because it allows you to quickly and easily change your support in the water with little head movement. When you are swimming make sure that you are high in the water. When swimming make sure that there is a 180 degree parallel cycling. When the entry hand is about to enter the water the exiting hand should be about to exit. When the entry hand enters the water the exit...
This is basic lesson and moving diagram showing the start of a water polo game, known as the sprint.
Three time US water polo Olympian, Wolf Wigo, demonstrates some tricks he used over the years to improve his game. In this video he demonstrates head and foot juggling, picking up the ball with his head, around the world and the helicopter backhand. These are fun things players can do on their own to improve their game and have some fun. This is an excellent way to get conditioned for water polo. This also looks cool and might make you look like a water polo show off.
This is the classic water polo body position. You are in a seated chair position, sculling your hands while eggbeater with both legs. This is the position optimal for moving to and from the ball. This is also called the center forward position in water polo.
In this video Dr. Carlson does several experiments to illustrate how a vacuum works. A vacuum is created when all the air is removed from an object.
This swimming with the ball tutorial is a great lesson in moving with the ball in water polo. The idea is to keep it in front of you as you swim with your head up. Note the high leg kick to keep the drag low and create lots of white water to blind pursuing defenders.
Faking shots in water polo is a great way to keep defense off balance. Fake shots will often send defenders off to one or the other side. Losing the defenders during the fake allows you to get the open shot on goal. Water polo offensive techniques are designed to create more space between you and the defender.
In this video tutorial, Greg Fraser demonstrates a few tactical pressure points that might be useful in competitive water polo. This video is a must-watch for all water polo players who want to improve their grappling skills and overall defense.
Water polo is a tough contact sport that entails good grappling techniques. Watch this video tutorial to improve your underwater combat grappling skills that will definitely help you become a better water polo player.
The new HTC One M8 has only been out for a few hours, but it's apparent that some people had their hands on the device before the announcement. And well, one them decided to drop the thing in water.
Single coil pick ups are notorious for being noisy and for having a lot of buzz. One way that you can get rid of the buzz and save yourself from sounding annoying and unprofessional on stage without messing with your volume knob or buying expensive noise gates is putting in copper shielding in your pick up cavities and on the pick guard! In this video you will get a complete walkthrough of how to install the shielding and rewire your guitar back to normal!
This water bottle prank is really ingenious. You split two water bottles and recombine them to form a new, weaker frankenwwaterbottle. You fill this with water and superglue the cap on. Now, when your victim tries to open the water bottle they'll push so hard on the unopenable cap that the weak bottle will break in two, soaking them and their friends. Brilliant, devious, and hilarious.
Mr. O shows his audience in this video how to make oobleck, a slime-like substance which has a variety of unique properties. For this project, you will need a mixing bowl, food coloring, corn starch, a measuring cup, and water. First, color the water with food coloring to a color which is much darker than the color you would like. You will need the correct ratio of water to cornstarch, in a 1 to 2 ratio. Add some water to the bowl and add the cornstarch, then add the rest of the water. Finall...
In this episode of Pixel Perfect, Bert shows us how to create flowing water and a photo-realistic splash effect in Photoshop. Perfect for a water fall or other water features, you'll be able to use these flowing water and splash effects in many Photoshop works of art.
We've all heard that death comes in threes. In our tireless hours of prank research here at Wonderhowto, we've observed that pranks often do as well. By stringing three simple pranks together, you can achieve all of the annoyance and laughter of a much more elaborate / expensive / dangerous prank. In this video, you will learn how to set up one combination prank that requires only simple things:
Sometimes we need to load our computers in safe mode to see if we can fix major computer failure and discover other major problems. But if you're stuck in safe mode and not sure how to load up in normal mode again check out this video. In it, you will learn how to get your computer to boot in normal mode again. Good for Windows XP, Vista or 7.
Did you know there are two ways to complete the French braid? There is the normal way, in which the braid comes out on top of your hair, and there is the inside out way, in which you braid your hair underneath the surface of your hair to create a less voluminous look.
One of the tougher achievements to get in Halo: Reach is the "Banshees, Fast and Low" achievement. To earn this one, you don't have to be "hero" or a "legend", but you can't be vapid either (easy mode), so stick with normal difficulty and you'll be fine. This video will show you the best way to hijack the banshee in the campaign mode on Halo Reach (Xbox 360) for those 25 Gamerscore points.
This clip offers instruction on how to export a model from Blender to Unity 3D and import it into a game. The tutorial also demonstrates how to bake a normal map and a color map from a highpoly model to the lowpoly counterpart, real-time display of the color/normal maps in the Blender viewport with GLSL shading, and real-time updating of assets in Unity. Whether you're new to the Blender Foundation's popular open-source 3D computer graphics application or are a seasoned digital artist merely ...
This video will show you how to watch YouTube video in slow motion as compared to normal speed. You could reduce the speed of a YouTube video to .25, .50. You could also make a video run faster than normal speed. So please watch the video and employ it in your computer.
