Renting is only half the battle – setting up an artist’s studio demands patience and preparation. Learn how to set up an artist's studio with this how to video. You Will Need * Fans for ventilation * Art supplies * A stool * A desk * Lights * A portable stereo * White paint * ...more
Need some help figuring out how to set up lights when working in Autodesk 3ds Max? This clip will show you how it's done. Whether you're new to Autodesk's popular modeling software or a seasoned 3D artist just looking to better acquaint yourself with the application, you're su ...more
Learn how to setup an art studio and make it your space for your creative needs with expert advice on how to set up an art studio from a professional artist in this free online instructional video series. Part 1 of 15 - How to Set up an art studio. Set up an art studio - Part ...more
Use inexpensive materials to create your own photographic studio equipment for product photography. The DIY set up is simple and useful.
Snap is turning to some light bribery to boost adoption of its new Lens Studio software. The January Jumpstart Challenge encourages artists to create and share a Lens that celebrates the New Year. One selected winner will take home a Lens Studio Swag Bag that includes an iPad ...more
You can easily set up your devices in studio one. Run the studio one. You should now on the start page of the studio one. There you can see the recent files, news feed etc. Now studio one automatically select an audio device that are connected to the computer and that is disp ...more
Need help getting started with Camtasia Studio on a Windows PC? It's easy! So easy, in fact, that this home-computing how-to from the folks at Britec can present a complete overview of the process in just over nine minutes. For more information, including detailed, step-by-ste ...more
Whether you want to record a demo or simply indulge your inner rock star, a home studio has certain requirements.
Jesus Cardoso shows us how to set up a home recording studio in this series of videos. Part 1 of 27 - How to Set up a home recording studio. Set up a home recording studio - Part 2 of 27. Click through to watch this video on expertvillage.com Set up a home recording studio - P ...more
Setting up a home recording studio is daunting, but these tips on software, costs, and equipment are great; learn to build and manage your home recording studio in this free video on recording music. Set up a home recording studio - Part 1 of 15. Click through to watch this vi ...more
Start with a large room when setting up a photography studio and add a background and studio lighting with umbrellas to reflect the lights. Set up a photo studio with the tips in this free video on photography tips from a professional photographer.
Hey guys. Here's a guide to making the best green screen studio without paying too much cash! Not cheap like our first one, Today we're balancing price AND quality. Can't use green poster board forever. Where we got our studio setup: http://www.tubetape.com Household Hacker ...more
Learn how to set up a basic home recording studio. Teaches about different types of microphones and other equipment.
The company augmented reality that Rony Abovitz was trying to build at Magic Leap apparently wasn't working out the way he hoped it would. That company, built on dreams, music, and future-looking entertainment, rather than truly new technology, came with a $2,300 price tag for ...more
Bill Myers shows you an easy way to quickly set project properties so the video displays better and smoother in Sony Vegas and Sony Movie Studio. This is great for when using different video formats.
In this video tutorial, we learn how to set up VST plug-ins and virtual instruments within Studio One. Whether you're new to PreSonus' DAW or new to digital recording more generally, you're sure to find much to take away from this free video software tutorial. Take a look.
This instructional photography video shows how to setup large white infinity backgrounds in the photo studio. The key components to this setup is include this six foot octobox softbox light, which requires quite a bit of power; a framed aluminum reflector; the background itsel ...more
Recording professional-sounding music at home is cheaper and easier than ever before, but still neither cheap nor easy compared to, say, grilled-cheese-sandwich-making. If you need some help getting started watch this video, which will teach you all about mics, cables, digital ...more
This tutorial is for photographers who may not have the interest or resources to invest heavily in lights. You can make a homemade ring light right at home, and this tutorial shows you how you can make your own with a soft box.
NFX shows you how to connect the MOD wheel on the MIDI controller to a channel plugin in FL Studio. Fruity Loops doesn't do this for you automatically so it's a good skill to learn.
What better band than Pink Floyd, the pioneers of psychedelic and progressive rock, to show the music industry how to reinvent album art for the augmented reality age? All rhetorical questions aside, Sony Records saw the opportunity to promote The Later Years, an 18-disc boxe ...more
This tutorial presents a general guide on how to model a book within modo, setting up the UVs, assigning some basic textures and materials to different poly groups. In the end, you will set up a studio shot for the book and create some more copies to fill the scene. In order t ...more
Norway-based production tools company Vizrt is putting the real into augmented reality with its broadcast AR solution that's designed to keep sports fans (and other audiences) watching. A couple of weeks ago, Chris Black, the head of content and communications at Vizrt, demoe ...more
This beauty video demonstrates how to do a MAC brunette blonde redhead makeup look. Marlena, aka MakeupGeek, is a freelance makeup artist living in Michigan. Marlena says "Makeup isn’t just paint for the face, something to cover blemishes, or even something fun to do in my sp ...more
This beauty video demonstrates how to create sexy Valentine's Day makeup. Marlena, aka MakeupGeek, is a freelance makeup artist living in Michigan. Marlena says "Makeup isn’t just paint for the face, something to cover blemishes, or even something fun to do in my spare time- ...more
Makeup needs to be perfect for the lights and camera of a movie set or TV studio. Learn how to apply movie makeup with expert tips from a makeup artist in this free cosmeticsvideo series. Part 1 of 15 - How to Apply TV and movie makeup. Apply TV and movie makeup - Part 2 of 15 ...more
Browsing and displaying your music library on the iPad is a cinch with Apple's iPod app. But by no means would it be considered exciting. Thankfully, there's another option for sorting and playing your iTunes library. It's a unique iPad-only application for those of us who wan ...more
By now, you've probably already seen Andy Serkis and his performance capture demo for Magic Leap. And sure, marrying motion capture acting and augmented reality sounds compelling, but how does it really work as an experience? A few days ago, I had a chance to find out, thanks ...more
Apple's iOS 16.3 update for iPhone had impressive new features, but iOS 16.4 might impress you even more. The latest iPhone update was released on Monday, March 27 — a day earlier than Apple Music Classical, Apple's new classical music streaming service — has at least 30 more ...more
The Lens Studio creators have published more than 1.5 million AR effects to Snapchat. One of them is Audrey Spencer, who shared her story with us and provided her insights into Lens Studio as a storytelling device. Meanwhile, Snap has added new capabilities to the platform to ...more
Although most religions have inspired a variety of art, Buddhism seems to have a special relationship with the arts. Something about the endless circle of birth and rebirth seems to intrigue the minds of artists. Of course even if the art is not directly related to Buddhism, t ...more
Google is going all in with Childish Gambino as its musical champion for augmented reality, as the duo has now dropped its second AR collaboration of the year. After Google launched his Playmoji for Pixel's Playground app earlier this year, Gambino, the musical alter ego of e ...more
BEATS by Dr. Dre started making their studio-style headphones and speakers over four years ago, which claim to help listeners actually "hear" music as it was intended by the artists, since commodity headphones and earbuds are known for producing lackluster results. But you can ...more
One of the most iconic architectural landmarks on the planet, the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France, will become a part of augmented reality history thanks to a new project from Snap. The occasion is the launch of Christo Vladimirov Javacheff's posthumous art installation in t ...more
Trying to figure out which music streaming service to subscribe to can be a difficult task when the playing field is so crowded. Each has its benefits, as well as downsides, so finding the right one for your needs and wants can take a lot of overwhelming research. But we've do ...more
Up and coming Los Angeles-based rock group Palaye Royale has managed to grow a substantial social media following, and now the group is looking to grow its fan base through the power of augmented reality. And while AR isn't new to the music business, a new AR experience from ...more
The tether command allows you to tether your camera to your Mac and capture images directly into Aperture. It's fast, easy to set up, and gives studio photographers immediate full-screen feedback while they shoot.
The Trapcode suite is a set of plug-ins for After Effects that allow video artists to create a variety of effects for inclusion in video and film productions. This particular guide demonstrates the power of Trapcode Particular and Trapcode 3D Stroke. Specifically, Wes Ball fro ...more
You can take high resolution photos with just about any digital SLR, but whether these high resolution photos turn out impressive depends on setting, lighting, and the compliance of your subjects to pose. While photographing your friends and family in everyday life has these a ...more
If you don't have the patience or the tools to root hair, you can use paint instead! This tutorial is primarily for reborn doll artists who want to learn how to use Genesis heat set paints to replicate the look of real hair on their baby doll head. You will need: your doll hea ...more
In the old days, artists used to have their apprentices render all of the parts of some human figures except for the face and hands. Those are the hardest parts, and had to be done by the master. If you aspire to be a 3D modeling master, you have to be able to make good-lookin ...more
We realize that celebrities change their hair color a lot, and oftentimes without consideration as to their skin tone. But that's because they're frequently gearing up for movie role that require a certain shade of hair color. For the rest of us, though, we can't just go with ...more
Illustration markers might be hard to use if you're not accustomed to them. You're prone to mistakes and indecisiveness. But that's probably because you don't know how to use them properly. You have to be completely comfortable with them. Watch this tutorial to learn how to u ...more
See how to take advantage of 3ds Max 2010's in-built tear modeling feature, which provides 3D artists to quickly cut a cloth as if due to a strong stretching force or a reaction to a hard collision with other rigid body meshes. Whether you're new to Autodesk's popular modeling ...more
This set up will show you how to use just one light to create a setting that's ideal for cosmetic, fashion and beauty shots. Great for a photographer who only has so much money to spend on studio equipment and accessories.
In order to take the perfect picture of your handmade wooden project, it's helpful to have a lightbox that's similar to what professionals use but definitely cheaper to make yourself. I was thinking about what project I was going to work on today. I decided to flip through so ...more
Show a separate clip in your larger video file, like an inset of yourself on a webcam when you're making your own tutorial video! This will show you how to set up your project to enable picture in picture viewing, for all or part of your video.
Podcasting has become the radio phenomenon of the modern age. Kevin Rose and Dan Huard explain why podcasting is so popular and they show how to set up a basic podcast environment from the hardware you'll need to the uploading process. Also, get an exclusive look into Leo Lapo ...more
Dogs and pets make beautiful portrait subjects, but they can be difficult to photograph. In this video, learn exactly how to set up your surroundings, lighting and camera to take your best animal picture. This tutorial will teach you a photography technique that you can use to ...more
The iPad is a pretty innovative device, it looks like an iPhone, runs like a computer and is sleek and thin like a magazine. This new tool can be used for almost anything. In this tutorial, learn how to use your iPad as a midi controller for Logic Studio, Pro Tools, Reason an ...more
For this Final Cut Studio video tutorial, Zach King will teach you how to create a spotlight effect in Final Cut Pro. To create a spotlight effect, just drag your photo of choice into the timeline, set and in and out point, go to video generators, and use the slug. Then press ...more
In this ASP.Net video tutorial, Chris Pels will show how to use nested master pages to create individual master pages that represent different standard content layouts for a web site. First, see how several major commercial web sites use a standard set of content layouts. Next ...more
To sound proof a room you have many different options. If you don't have your dry wall up because you don't have your studio set up, put insulation right inside the wall before you put in the dry wall. It is important to sound proof your room because you don't want your neighb ...more
Want to mix and scratch like a professional DJ? To be a good DJ you need to understand the concepts of mixing tracks, adding cool effects, and of course you need a good sense of rhythm to line up the beats. This how to video explains how to use the EQ, bass, mid, and treble on ...more
Halfed Ass Construction presents how to build a Bass / Sound trap in this home audio tutorial. This how-to video goes over the step by step instructions for how to build a frame, the materials needed the process of building the bass or sound trap. A bass trap acoustic panel wi ...more
Video games and art have somewhat of a sticky relationship. Many video games have large teams of talented artists doing amazingly creative work, and yet the art community is only just beginning to utilize video games as art (sometimes). Perhaps if video games were shown not ju ...more
Morph modifiers are just one of the powerful tools that 3D Studio Max offers digital artists to change the shape of their models. This video will teach you how to use morph modifiers in 3dsmax to change the shape of objects. If you can't do this, your 3D models are going to ha ...more
This tutorial shows you how to use the slideshow view in DVD Studio Pro 4 to set slide shows to music. It goes over the different transitions and possibilities available for manipulating your slides.
In this how-to video, you will learn how use set up a studio table for watercolor. First, make a water blotter out of toilet paper and tissue folded in half. Fold the towel into the paper. The gator board and paper should be in front of you, with the sketch at the left side. I ...more
This sequence of videos provides a tutorial on how to set up basic studio lighting in many settings. With these photography techniques, you will be able to create a variety of wonderful portraits with various lighting techniques. Part 1 of 8 - How to Set up basic lights for ph ...more