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To Cel Shade or Not Cel Shade - that is the question!
July 10, 2022Anime style animation (and cartoons in general) normally use cel shading 3D computer animation shading, but made to look more flat. So before you start ...
Emotional Impact in Scriptwriting
July 3, 2022This is my summary of a podcast I found on YouTube (its available on multiple platforms) from "Bulletproof Screenwriting", an interview with Karl Iglesias (author, ...
The use of camera movements
June 20, 2022There are many great resources out there on how to move the camera for a great camera shot. Here I share a few videos introducing ...
Unity Built in Render Pipeline to HDRP Upgrade Instructions
June 18, 2022The following is how I upgrade my 2021.2.0b5 projects to 2022.1.1f1 (my new baseline version). I am doing this as there have been a number ...
HDRP Depth of Field with moving targets
June 13, 2022Depth of field is a Unity camera effect in allows you to blur the background and foreground, creating greater focus on your character. I recently ...
Artistic considerations when designing a location
June 12, 2022In this blog I talk about the artistic side of deciding what to include in a location design. I am using Unity to do my ...
My Stages of Animation Production using VRoid Studio and Unity
June 10, 2022What are the normal stages in creating an 3D animated video? There are variations depending on whether you are doing a full length movie, a ...
HDRP Camera Depth of Field Effects (blur)
June 9, 2022I am in the process of upgrading my Unity project from the Built in Render Pipeline to the High Definition Render Pipeline (HDRP). HDRP does ...
Why I Stopped using Scene Activation in Unity
May 22, 2022The Unity Sequences package support has a number of features to make it easier to create movies, game cutscenes, or in my case short animated ...
Animation Hair and Cloth Physics Bounces
May 15, 2022One common problem with animating characters is when you instantly cut from one pose to another for characters with physics on hair or cloth. Physics ...
Content Creation from Lilly Singh (podcast episode summary)
April 25, 2022I came across "The Upload: The Rise of the Creator Economy" as a podcast, discovering later it’s the audio track of a YouTube series, backed ...
Unity Sequences and Animation Rigging Versions (April 2022 update)
April 23, 2022There was an Animation Rigging incompatibility with Sequences in Unity which has been fixed in version 1.2.0 of Animation Rigging. (It results in lots of ...
Find your own best practices for efficient content creation
April 6, 2022As a content creator, how can you efficiently turn your creativity into something you can share with others to enjoy? I ask this question of ...
ARKit Blend Shape Capture for OpenUSD
January 20, 2022Ever wanted to quickly capture ARKit facial blend shapes for a OpenUSD project? There a number of free tools around, but I wanted to share ...
Lighting for Cartoon Animation in Unity
January 14, 2022I am using Unity with VRoid Studio characters to create a series of cartoon episodes. Unity supports "real time" and "baked" lighting. So which to ...
BVH to Humanoid Animation Clips for Unity
December 5, 2021I subscribed to @MuRo\ CG's "PlayAnimaker" on Pixiv. He is doing some cool work with using VR headsets for Anime style output. You can use ...
Hosting your video rich web stories
August 24, 2021I have been exploring creating an animated comic using Google web stories, a HTML format designed for vertically oriented video and images. One of the ...
Pixar's Universal Scene Description
August 15, 2021I just came across Pixar's Universal Scene Description language. It’s a file format they use for all of their movies. It was interesting to see ...
Using Deepmotion.com to create custom walk cycles
July 6, 2021I am have been working on a lightly animated comic (pages, with speech bubbles, but where there is a short video clip on each page ...
Prefabs vs Prefab Variants in Unity
July 3, 2021I have been exploring the new Sequences package beta for Unity for animation and one of the things it makes heavy use of was Prefab ...
The New Unity Sequences Support for Cinemachine
June 25, 2021(UPDATED Jun 28, 2021 to reflect my greater understanding.) Just a quick blog of my initial experiences and understanding of the new sequences support. I ...
Designing Scene Shots with Lens Settings in Unity
June 19, 2021I subscribe to MasterClass.com and a new lesson series from James Cameron was just released (yes \ the\ James Cameron) where one of the lessons ...
Anime Scene Analysis (Fruits Basket)
June 14, 2021I still dream of creating a lightly animated anime styled comic, using VRoid Studio characters in Unity (an engine for creating games). Even if I ...
What is the fastest way to create an animation clip or pose on a budget?
April 11, 2021I am trying to create a comic series using 3D VRoid characters. So far it has been more learning than creating content. I have slowly ...