wiki

A multimedia production wiki
(inspired by many)

• An Unnecessary Note From the Author

• Let’s Think About This First

  • Audience, Author

  • Ethics, Advertising, and Fictional Realities

  • Art, Tools, and Metaphors

  • Copyright: Laws and Ideas

  • What is (Technical) Art?

  • What is a Computer Computing?

  • RESOURCES

• 3D Basics & Concepts

  • Shapes, Sizes: Working with Primitives

  • Points, Vertices, Triangles, Quads

  • Common Modeling Tools / Concepts

  • UV “channels” and Texturing

  • Lighting, Shading, and Shaders

  • Rendering & Post-Processing

  • Animation: Keyframes and Curves

  • Animation: “The” Principles

  • RESOURCES

• Realtime Concepts

  • “Things”: Actors, Game Objects, Entities

  • Components

  • Tick & OnUpdate

  • Timers & Coroutines

  • Event Based Programming

  • Memory & Garbage Collection

  • Shaders & Instructions

  • Overdraw

  • The Long Thin Triangle

  • Rendering: Forward & Deferred

  • Animation Systems

    • blend spaces

    • blend shapes

    • skeletons

    • programmatic overrides

      • blend by bone

      • look-at

      • IK (Inverse Kinematics)

      • spline bones

• Digital Content Creation Packages (“DCC”s)

  • Blender

  • Houdini

  • 3dCoat

  • RESOURCES

• Realtime Tools

  • Unity

    • C#

    • Animation Controllers

    • DOTS

  • Unreal

    • Animation Blueprints

    • Sequencer

    • Blueprints

    • VR

    • Useful Shader Tips

    • Physics Assets & Physical Animation

  • VJing

    • VJ Concepts

    • Resolume

    • VDMX

  • Adobe Character Animator

  • todo: Godot

  • RESOURCES

• Particles

  • Particle Concepts

    • Unreal Niagara

    • Unreal Cascade

    • Unity VFX Graph

    • Unity Particle Editor

    • Houdini POPS

  • Shader & Particle Tricks

  • RESOURCES

• Texturing

  • TEXTURING CONCEPTS

  • Quixel Mixer

  • Substance Painter

  • materializer

  • todo: armorPaint

  • todo:blender texturing, panting

  • RESOURCES

• Shading

  • SHADING CONCEPTS

  • Unreal Shader Nodes

  • Unity Shader Nodes

  • Blender Shader Nodes

  • HLSL

    • pixl cards

  • RESOURCES

• Animation

  • Blender

    • Workflow & Shortcuts

    • Curve editor

    • NLE Editor

    • Plugins

      • AEtoBlend plugin

      • Auto-Rig Pro

  • Unreal

    • AllRightRig

    • ControlRig

    • Sequencer

  • After Effects

    • Curve Editor & Gotchas

    • Plug-in dependency

  • Hand Drawn

    • Procreate

    • RoughAnimator

    • Photoshop

    • Stop Motion / Pixilation

• Photo & Illustration

  • Affinity Photo

  • Affinity Designer

  • Adobe Photoshop

  • Procreate

  • Krita

• Design

  • DESIGN CONCEPTS

• Video Tools

  • VIDEO CONCEPTS

  • After Effects

  • Premiere

  • Fusion

  • Resolve

  • Misc Tools & Plugins

    • EbSynth

  • iPad/iPhone

    • RoughAnimator

    • Procreate

    • Affinity Photo

    • Affinity Designer

    • LumaFusion

    • Filmic pro

  • Blender (compositing, editing, vfx)

  • RESOURCES

• Advanced 3D & Visual Effects

  • Motion Tracking

  • Performance Capture & Digital Puppetry

  • Simulation

  • Proceduralism (workflow)

  • Virtual Production

  • RESOURCES

• Audio

  • AUDIO CONCEPTS

  • SOUND DESIGN

  • TOOLS

    • Reaper

    • Ableton Live

    • FL Studio mobile

    • Audacity

  • RESOURCES

• Music

  • Music Theory Tips

  • RESOURCES

• Streaming

  • OBS & Integrations

  • Zoom

• Programming

  • PROGRAMMING CONCEPTS

  • Blueprints (Unreal Visual Scripting)

  • C# (Unity)

  • Python

  • VEX (Houdini language for manipulating 3d objects)

  • RESOURCES

• Useful Mathematics

  • Vectors

    • Cross Product

    • Dot Product

  • 1D easing functions

  • Quaternions