Jellie Bee Review

The independent artist I am reviewing is a YouTube artist known as Jellie Bee. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6dBpjVqOVI Jellie Bee, also known as Morgan Amelia, is an English comic and storyboard artist, who started YouTube in January 2014. She is also really caring of her fans and has a Discord server where all of her fans can talk …

Youtube Playlists Help

These playlists help me get inspired to do my artwork. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCq_TF7Im72ctgL9y2Tto6ng/playlists But 2 of the playlists, Digital Art and Traditional Art, help my subscribers know what kind of art they are looking for on my channel. Since I don't record myself doing traditional artworks anymore, I have now only done digital art recordings. For my …

Disney Renaissance: The Sequel

  The Disney Renaissance came into effect because of the deaths of Walt and Roy O. Disney in the late 60s and 70s. To which a major management change caused a negative shift in quality of Disney's films for 18 years. During that time one of Disney's long time animators Don Bluth left taking with …

3D Animation: The short history

Everyone knows the first Pixar film, Toy Story (1995), well it was the very first fully 3D animated film. Now this was just over 21 years ago and now look at how much 3D animated films have gotten better. Look at the water effects in film The Incredibles (Pixar, 2004) from the scene when rest of …

Your animation is done.. But wait there’s more!

LIGHTING Lighting helps determine the setting, time of day and the mood the scene is set in. There are various techniques on using lighting to your advantage. As shown in the example above, despite it being 2D, the angle that the light source is coming from determines what the mood will be in the final …

You’re done with the model.. Now What?

UV MAPPING It's now time to start UV mapping, now whats that you might ask. Well it's the process of projecting a 2D image to a 3D model's surface. UVs are essential in that they provide the connection between the surface mesh and how the image texture gets mapped onto the surface mesh. (Auto Desk, …