One of my presentations at US First Robotics was an introduction to the workflow of creating and animation so I'm posting the image here for anyone to use as a rough outline when planning a project. The animation teams have a short time to produce a presentation and the entire process is new to many of them, so this half hour class focused on helping them start off on the right foot.   more »

I'm posting a couple of images from the US First Robotics competition in Atlanta last week showing Phil Dollan and I hard at work. Actually, it's not hard work at all and it is a real honor to work with such bright kids and their mentors. Autodesk does an amazing job at supporting the teams   more »

I'll be traveling from 11-15 April to Atlanta to attend the US First Robotics Competition to help Autodesk with the visualization competition that is part of the event.   more »

There will be a disruption of the blog on: Saturday April 7th, 2007 On Saturday April 7th (10PM - 4AM EST*) Tucows will be performing a service upgrade on Blogware.   more »

This tutorial is in answer to a question posted recently on the Autodesk Area forum on how to draw a L-shaped line between two shapes that are perpendicular to the sides of the shape (rectangles).   more »

Learn to paint objects over the surface of another object without any plug-ins in 3ds Max. It has its limitations based on computer resources, but can be useful in many cases.   more »

Learn to create flexible materials (in either Max or VIZ) by using multiple levels of masking which can be especially powerful when combined with lofted mapping coordinates. The example here is road striping on a lofted roadway.   more »