Here are a few websites you can use to quickly and easily make buttons for your website:

• Da Button Factory
• Online Button Generator
• Call-To-Action Button Generator
• Glassy Buttons
• Let Me Google That For You

For those students who are playing with Maya, once you have a completed character, we can print it out on one of our 3D printers. You can’t print directly from Maya, or even export the usual .stl filetype that 3D printers use, but luckily we have other Autodesk software that will convert your Maya file.

Tutorial instructions here

http://digitalsteam.autodesk.com/projects/emoticon-design

Learn to load and unload levels seamlessly:

http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/LevelStreamingHowTo.html

Java Programmers!

Are you ready for Code Combat? http://codecombat.com/ 

If you have a copy of Photoshop CS6 (or even the newer CC) here is how you create animated GIFs.

http://www.briandalessandro.com/blog/create-an-animated-gif-in-photoshop-cs5/

Try this tutorial on level design to create a waterfall scene. It seems to be pretty good.

Mozi UDK Tutorial

By the way, I found this tutorial on the Epic Games forums.

For this week’s lesson on networking, you will need a patch file.

Click here to download the file: utpatch436

Mr.E

Yep, look at that, we are in the second semester. That of course means new students for me, and new classes for you!

In Quarter 3 we have a Design Studies class. This is mostly 1A (Grade 10 students) but there are some 2A students who are going to get to play with our new toy, a Solidooodle 3D printer! Read more about the Solidoodle here: http://www.solidoodle.com/

This is an example of face deformation using the javascript library clmtrackr.

Note that this example needs support for WebGL, and works best in Google Chrome.

http://auduno.github.io/clmtrackr/face_deformation_video.html

Even better, Face Substitution:

http://auduno.github.io/clmtrackr/examples/facesubstitution.html