Ramblings of a 3D artist

 Here's a weird one... The Problem: When I select a mesh/curve, it selects the shape - not the transform! The Fix: Turn off 'Enable ...

The Problem: My models are grey in the Maya viewport, even though they have a material with colour assigned! The Fix: At the top of the view...

Every so often you come across a portfolio website that absolutely blows your mind, and this is one of them:  https://www.mothman-td.com/ Th...

 I came across a pretty cool new zealander who is hosting a lot of his tools on his own personal website. Thought it was worth a link :)  ht...

So here’s a cool little tool for helping organise reference images on screen – Kuadro. You can open up any image files and arrange them on s...

Meditate on this 🙏 'foo' is 'foo' True 'foo' == 'foo' True 'foo' is 'foo2'[:-1] False ...

So, "it ain't 2005 anymore", and quite rightly so.  Why spend time creating a bespoke tool, if there's something out there...

The Issue: // Error: line 1: The undo queue is turned off. :( The Fix: In script editor, on a python tab, run: cmds.undoInfo(state=True) :)

 I discovered a new time slider preference today that blew my mind slightly; 'Snap to whole frames'. When you turn this off, as you ...

The Issue: Hey! My prune weights aren't working! :( The Fix: Yeah? Have you tried unlocking your weights? 

 Want to know a secret? "*"*100 takes me about 1 second to type. Why not wrap it in a print?   print("*"*100) print(...

The Problem: I need to change all paths in a Houdini scene file due to a drive change - oh no! All my nodes are invalid, my scene is broken...

I needed to install numpy for Maya the other day because its a dependancy of a package that I use. But how? How do you install numpy for May...

 I recently found a great tutorial on created live-collision joints using Mayas in-built muscle system nodes. I thought this was a really cl...

Python generators were something that alluded me for quite a while. A spooky concept that didn't seem necessary. However after using Cor...

Towards the end of last year I took part in Creative Assembly's GameJam, and it just got announced that our team won! Hooray! This year...

 Let's say you have a subnet, with near identical parameters to multiple sub-nodes within. How do we go about linking them all? We could...