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Season 01 – Episode 40 – Learning and Visualizing Maths

Published by Raffaele on 9 January, 2019

Learning and Visualizing Maths

Over one and half hours focused on tools to visulize maths, developing intuition, and understanding correlations. Vectors, Matrices, Trigonometry and Desmos.

I know the math videos are popular, and I had wanted to do something along these lines for a while, and today it took my fancy to give it a shot.
If you care at all about learning maths then this is certainly worth watching, no matter what level you’re at (it’s more about learning than it is about the specific sub topics).

It also comes with some graphs for you to play with:
Rotational Transform
Angle Between

Enjoy,

Season 01 – Episode 36 – Finished All Components

Published by Raffaele on 24 June, 2018

Finished Components With Working Symmetry

After warming back up to the rig in the previous stream yesterday this went pretty well, even if I say so myself.

Most of the content is nodelling and reviewing what I’m doing and why, but there’s a good amount of work happening at a relatively snappy pace.

Bugs (presumed) of the previous day are squashed, all components are made to properly guide and deguide, handedness is now considered for the foot too, the foot receives a proper deform layer, our tool for guiding is confirmed working… And more.

It is a nodelling episode, which we’ve had many of, but it’s a good one in my opinion, and it finally takes us to what might be the finish line for all components. I/O and re-assembling the rig should be all that’s left next (unless we will find issues 😉 ).

As for the previous episode I recorded a brief intro which is available in the first link/embed below, you can watch that if you want a quick verbal preview of what goes on in the episode, but it’s mostly what you have just read.

Enjoy,

Season 01 – Episode 32 – Maths: Mirroring Transforms, Components: Modularising

Published by Raffaele on 6 April, 2018

Maths: Mirroring Transforms
Components: Modularisation

A little bit of an odd episode as it treats two completely different and unrelated subjects.

In the first half we go over modularising components, gotchas, procedure, some tricks on how to manage it with pure vanilla Maya and so on. Not bad going.

As the next step after that will be mirroring components I thought it would be beneficial to actually explain what reflection (handedness inversion) means in mathematical terms, and show what it looks like with Maya transforms.

The QnA indulges on a scaling related question too in the context of deformation.

It had been a while since we did a math video or a Maya workflow one, so it was kind of cool to get to treat both in one session.

Enjoy,