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Creating a simple model of a 3d building block. This tutorial was originally written to encourage the use of additional tools when 3d modelling and to push beginners into the simplest methods of box modelling.  Namely selections, extrude, shapemerge. First step is to make a cube with 3 segments for Height, Width and, Length. When making ... Read More

Sometimes a client comes to you wanting something impossible. Sometimes they have their head so far in the future you don't know what to think. Redesigning for Garth Male Grooming wasn't the case. The original spec was to add back end functionality. Pricing and specials were hard coded and required hours and dollars to update. Which simply isn't acceptable. You need to be able to move and adapt with the times. While looking over the content to see what could be database driven I noticed ... Read More

We'll start this post with a warning. And several key points. I am not a lawyer and don't profess to be one, I suggest contacting a lawyer before making any decisions based on this information. I am in Australia. I have no idea how this will affect designers in the US, UK or anywhere else in the world. With that out of the way..... As a webmaster(and in many cases) a web designer, you have a responsibility to your site users. In regards to their privacy ... Read More

This is an article I wrote several years ago that I plan to revise soon, so in the interests of posterity, here it is again before I work on it. Photorealism : ( Fo-to-reel-isum) the art of making an image look like a photograph. That should be all the definition we need, and it’s how we’re going to work with the term. It’s entirely possible to render surreal items or bizarre ... Read More

When writing code in MySQL, you don't need to write inner joins. Well you do, but you don't need to say "INNER JOIN" MySQL uses a dot syntax which makes our code so much easier. Our example uses 3 tables with several columns each. A table of users, a table of DVD's and a table showing who has borrowed what and when. Users: id,Name DVD: id, Title, genre loans: id,owner,Title,Date So we have entries in all of these tables. And we want to retrieve a list of all ... Read More

So, Let's talk photography. What are the basics you need to know. I think there's 5 things you need to know. Shutter Speed Aperture Iso Depth of Field Framing 1. Shutter Speed: Pretty self explanatory here. Shutter speed is about how long the shutter stays open for. The longer it is open the more light comes in. Most photos are taken with a shutter speed measured in tenths or hundredths of a second. The shutters are inside your camera, directly in front of the sensor. Shutter speed controls how much of ... Read More

I was contracted to update the web presence for Totally Hot, a swimwear company based here in Brisbane, Australia. Now this is no small fish, they have an enormous range of products (all designed and made locally) and the owner was One of the 10 young people to watch for 2008 (Courier Mail) and an RAQ fashion award winner. So this seemed a mighty challenge. First step in the project was to change the site away from it's standard template style. The ... Read More