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Makerbot Printing Tips

Article written by The Pixil Staff

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Coming up on today's episode, Makerbot Printing Tips! Today it's all about Makerbot. We're going to take a look at some tips and tricks on getting awesome prints. We've seen tons of great 3D prints coming out of makerbots, but most makerbot owners want to know which settings to use. Today we're gonna how to setup your makerbot to get bigger and ...

How to Model a Tron Light Cycle

Article written by Pedro Ruiz

Coming up on today's episode: Pedro is going to show us how to model a low poly, Tron light cycle. In celebration of the new sequel Tron Legacy, I'll show some of the steps you can use in building one of theses iconic bikes!

Animate Text Extrudes in Maya

Article written by Pedro Ruiz

Coming up on today's epsiode: We take a look at how to animate extruding text in Maya. Animating extruded text is a nice effect to get the attention of your audience and it always makes for good screen candy.

Baking Texture Light Maps in Maya 2010

Article written by Pedro Ruiz

Coming up on today's epsiode: Optimize your iPhone games performance by Baking Texture Light Maps using Maya 2010. Today will be using Maya Baked Lightmaps to speed up game performance. The trick is getting fewer texture draw calls by baking your shadows into the texture.

3D in Photoshop

Article written by Pedro Ruiz

Coming up on today's epsiode: Using 3d objects inside Photoshop and Illustrator. When developing graphics for product, using 3D objects can help position graphics on products more easily and is a huge time saver. Before we had to take pictures, or make a 3D objects inside illustrator. Photoshop's 3d abilities get around the limitations of illustrator. By allowing you to more ...

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