Dented Pixel's Lean Tween asset for the Unity Game engine is fantastic and has a number of functions to manipulate the alpha property of various components. The Unity canvas components are supported to a large degree and today I wanted to draw attention to…
The official, yet non life time support (LTS), version of Unity is out and we are all anxious to dig into the new 2D tools. If you are like me you've come to depend on the Unity Device Simulator preview package for testing mobile…
Parallaxing seems like it should be built into Unity's 2D workflow. Maybe by the time you are reading this it is? For everyone stuck in the now, I wanted to highlight a hidden, fantastic and lightweight parallaxing asset that's not available on the Unity…
There are several ways to fade a SpriteRenderer sprite using the Lean Tween library. You can use LeanTween.alpha, which almost always works but sometimes sets the alpha of the shared material tint rather than then SpriteRenderer.color property. In those case, you can use LeanTween.value…
I think of art as a two step process. Step 1: Inspiration. Step2: Creation. Sure, there's more to it. A lot more. In fact, each of my over simplified steps contain an number of sub steps. I don't like sub steps. Research, refinement, structure,…
We all want our polymer clay models to resemble a smooth designer art toy cast in vinyl or resin. The problem is, it takes a lot of work to get rid of the bumps, nicks, finger prints, indentations, uneven surfaces and bits of clay…
There are several easy-to-correct factors that cause polymer clay or sculpy clay projects to burn. All of these factors come down to heat. Heat, is what causes things to burn. Controlling heat and how and where that heat hits your model is the key…
A long time ago in this very galaxy I had the opportunity to be in the inaugural class of the now infamous Animation Mentor character animation school. During my time there I was asked by former Pixar animator and school co-founder, Bobby Beck, to…
