Position on SOPA

Hey everyone! It's been a while since the last time that anything has been posted.  I just wanted to briefly let you know that, as you have seen with much of the content that I have posted, I am a very big proponent of open-source content.  That being said, I have been seeing a few of my favorite sites posting messages about legislation known as SOPA, or the Stop Online Piracy Act.  I would like everyone to know forthright that I am against online piracy.  However, I am also against people monitoring online content in a way that stifles individuality, cretivity, or other forms of  expression.  I believe that this act, though noble in its purposes, is also unnecessarily restrictive, and I am therefore expressing my opposition to this legislation, and I would also encourage anyone else that feels this way to do the same.

Blender Tutorial: Creating a Fantasy World Part 1

This is the first part in a two-part video tutorial about creating a fantasy world.  Although the first part does not deal with Blender, the second part will, so that is why this video has been given a Blender title.  In this first part, we will actually be making a terrain in a program called L3DT, a free terrain generation program.  Then, in the second part of the tutorial, we will be applying the map that we made in L3DT to our world that we will be creating in Blender.

Blender Tutorial: Green Screen

Hi everyone! It's been a while since my last post, and I know that my posts have been a little less frequent lately.  Anyway, I felt that this tutorial would be useful, albeit simple.  Nonetheless, I wanted to share with you how I have learned to do green screen animations in Blender, so who's ready for today's exciting episode?

Maya Tutorial: Adding a Texture for a UV Set

This is my first Maya tutorial.  It's a beginner level tutorial intended for Maya 2009 users.  I'm going to start putting Maya tutorials into the blog.  This tutorial talks about the process of adding an existing texture to an object in a Maya scene.  Honestly, this is a tutorial that I wished that I had before I attempted to add a material to a UV set.