CartoonSmart Tutorials

In this second video in our SceneKit and ARKit basics series, we’ll look at a few SCNActions used to delay adding content to the scene, and most importantly, we’ll talk about hit testing. By the end of the video, you’ll be able to tap the screen, detect whether you touched the ball node (set up from the previous lesson) and apply a physics impulse to it.

Hosts: Justin Dike

In this first video tutorial using the ARKit and SceneKit template, we’ll remove the starting assets and build a simple box and ball scene. We will use Swift 4 to program the ball to have a physics body affected by gravity so it then drops onto the box, which has a static physics body. You’ll learn how to setup objects in the Scene Editor, then enumerate through the children in the scene to find those objects by name with Swift. We’ll also discuss some debug options, like seeing the world origin, physics bodies, and augmented reality feature points.

Hosts: Justin Dike

In this Adobe Animate basics video tutorial, we’ll discuss the selection and sub-selection tools, which are essential for manipulation vector points in the program (as well as selecting things). We’ll also cover some helpful preferences (like contact-sensitive selection) and some other beginner concepts.

In this second video we’ll ink and shade the clothing of the character we sketched in part 1.

Subscribers can continue watching Part 3 in this series here.

The initial sketch of a comic book character illustration we’ll color and shade in future video tutorials. Recorded in real time.

A fun off-the-cuff video tutorial on how to draw using Procreate and (optionally) an iPad Pro. This lesson I’ll draw a comic book style male character in a typical “stare down” pose.  Recorded in real time (not a speed drawing).

Finally we’ll polish off the tutorial series by adding a resend button to the app. This way once a user has completed their masterpieces and saved them, all they’ll need to do on the intro screen is scroll to their previously saved image and hit resend.

Hosts: Justin Dike

In this Swift 3 video tutorial, we’ll make the picker columns / components respond more intuitively.

Hosts: Justin Dike

In this video we’ll add the secondary image to the image container.

Hosts: Justin Dike

In this Swift 3 tutorial we’ll save everything in our image container as data (which can be saved to the User Defaults), then insert the image into the conversation as an MSMessage.

Hosts: Justin Dike