Here lies the ramblings of a technical artist.
Occasionally I find the time to write about things I find interesting, lessons I’ve learned, or challenges I’ve worked through along the way. My hope is that sharing them might help someone else solve a problem a little faster than I did. Have a look around and see if anything’s useful to you.
Scripting Layer Visibility With A Controller In 3D Studio Max
Here’s a quick Pro-Tip for users who want to use wire parameters to connect layer attributes in 3D Max. If you found this page, it is probably because your frustrated…
3D Max 2021 Finally Removed Mental Ray, Here’s How To Avoid Scene Errors When Opening Older Scenes
Finally, those Mental Ray legacy assets are outta Max. The only issue is that Max and MR may have written some nodes and custom attributes into your older scenes….
Using Your Computer To Help Find A Solution For COVID-19
The COVID19 situation had me thinking, isn’t there something I can do to help that doesn’t involve human to human contact? Turns out there is… and it’s really interesting…
Combining Actions and Scripts in Adobe Photoshop for Automation
Photoshop actions are pretty awesome. They have limitations though, and I ran into this when trying to do a fairly simple task… automatically renaming a Photoshop group layer to…
Tutorial: How To Make Autodesk Maya Automatically Execute a Script When an Attribute Changes with scriptJob and scriptNode.
Making Maya automatically execute a script when an attribute changes is not as straightforward as it would seem. Getting a scriptJob to work when referenced was even more difficult…
Different Ways to Extract a 3D Model From a 3D PDF File
If you found this page, it is likely because you are frustrated that Adobe took away the direct ability to export a 3D model from inside a 3D PDF. …
6 Common Marketing Scenarios That Benefit From Computer Graphics
Most understand Computer Graphics (CG) as a Hollywood tool, but not for corporations. I thought it may be helpful to explain some simple real-world scenarios of CG usage in…
Delivering CAD for Visualization
Projects often begin with the delivery of a clients working engineering files. This brief guide will help you know what works best for us and what will help with…
Using the 3D Studio Max Morpher to Blend Textures
While producing a realistically growing soy plant for a client, I ran into an interesting and unexpected snag with the 3D Studio max Morpher. Here’s what it is and…
