Jan 30, 2007

Tentacle Animation using IK splines

Hello all,

This is Keshan Harris. For the person who was doing the squid that moves fluidly until it is walking on to the hard surface, I thought it might help to take a look at this tutorial. It's a tentacle tutorial using IK Splines thats quite easy to follow and produces some really very realisitic tentacle effects which I've used before in a previous animation. See if it suits you. This covers joints, IK Splines, Smooth Binding, and some other topics we haven't looked at in class yet but follow along and you can produce the results of it quite easily

IK Splines are Great!

Jan 21, 2007

How to make an HDR image in CS2


Check out this link to get a sample of what downtown Tokyo looks like using HDR: http://flickr.com/photos/altus/322152193/

To learn more about HDR (which you can use for light generating texture maps), check out
http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/high-dynamic-range.htm