I'm Monica, aka Academic Phoenix. I'm an artist, art director, and teacher. This channel focuses on tutorials primarily for Maya, Photoshop and After Effects.
Why should you listen to me? I've been a professor for 9 years, and I worked in the animation industry for 8 years: I contributed to animations like the Way to Heaven, PBS, shorts and more.
Creating good art is hard enough without the tools getting in the way. Let me make things easier for you!
This is a free resource for digital tutorials! There will be a new lesson uploaded every Wednesday.
ohh youre back again you keep saving me from my course since 2022 i really need this kind of tutorial. watched several tutorial about fkik switch and yours is my favorite
Good question. I modeled the head separately. If you have a character with an attached head, then you are going to have an army of bodies instead of heads. :)
@@AcademicPhoenixPlus Yeah your videos are amazing! 👌👌 Can I also request if you can let me know if I can attach body feathers(small geo cards) on a bird body using xgen? I know those will be static but with xgen hair guides it's easy to scatter and scale them, then finally replace those xgen guides with geo cards by instancing where feather texture is applied! Your help is much appreciated!🙏🙏
Can you also make feathers with small geometry cards to get replaced where guides are placed so that it is easier to have feathers for the body of a bird while for the long feathers for wings can be the polygons itself? I only need to replace hair with polygons for the bird body, the direction of the guides is easier to do with xgen, please help! Thank you!🙏🙏
You make everything seem so easy, bless your heart, Monica, really appreciate your hard work and great presentation and all your explanations are so wonderful, to the point, no messing about and you manage to get the message accross very well. For ever grateful and hope you continue sharing your vast knowledge and experience :) stay beautiful :)
@@AcademicPhoenixPlus I'd love to join in and all, but it's impossible, things are very complicated where i live :( but i'll watch your wonderful vedios and for ever very grateful :) bless your heart :)
you are amazing and funny as a teacher and I love this all of my life I can't find that kind of tutor. we love you please don't stop uploading video on RU-vid your video help me lot thanks for every video
