So you have decided to step into the amazing world of digital sculpting? Before you get your feet wet, here are some tips on how to prepare your models for sculpting. When preparing a model the most important thing is having good topology on your model. This means having edge loops that are consistent and spaced out as evenly as possible.

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Hey everyone, welcome to the first and hopefully not last “Resource Wednesday“. To give everyone a short into, Resource Wednesday is a new schedule segment where my studio will be providing the community with resources whether it be templates, models, practice/exercise materials, icons, or basically anything related to multimedia that can be used by anyone for personal use for free. (Unless stated otherwise).

In today’s pack, we have a 3D Horse Model made in 3D Studio Max created by a fellow worker, Aaron Forney.

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One of the most important principles to learn about CSS (Cascading Stylesheets) is CSS Specificity. What is CSS Specificity? Specificity is the act of specifying a certain element directly by it’s name. In other words, it’s like calling someone by the first name. For example, say we have the name John. There’s probably a few million people out in the world who’s name is John. And so if you tell all Johns to move to the left, then all of them will move to the left. The same goes with CSS elements.

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Ever wanted to know how options are implemented with Wordpress? Through lots of tutorials, I’ve finally been able to make a theme that had some options in the backend to make it easy for users/clients to change up colors, the width of the site, link colors, and simple things like that.

Ares Framework brings you the simple theme but with a Theme Options Page for the Wordpress admin. (Download link at the bottom)

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As you may have noticed, one of the things I’ve cut from the menu was a Downloads section. It’s now a category, and I have a little sidebar on the widget that will show the latest downloads so just a heads up for future downloads. All downloads will be in resources, so if you need to find them, you can simply go to Resources navigation.

Here’s a quick business card template for those that need a template with all the guides (For Photoshop).

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