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Character Design Fundamentals | Learn to Create and Illustrate Characters for Animation!

By School of Motion
Published: Feb 15, 2024

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Ready to learn how to design appealing characters for advertising, broadcast and more? ?? ???? Join Illustrator @emmagillette6249 as she shares her best tips and tricks in Character Design Fundamentals, our new self-paced course, AVAILABLE NOW! ???? https://som.bz/49vtehq
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Designing Characters: Insights from Emma Gillette

By School of Motion
Published: Feb 21, 2024

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Check out the corresponding blog post: https://www.schoolofmotion.com/blog/emma-gillette

In our latest podcast episode, Emma Gillette, a professional illustrator and instructor of the newly released Character Design Fundamentals course, shares her experiences and insights, providing actionable lessons for fellow artists and designers.

Emma Gillette – https://www.emmagilletteart.com/

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00:00 Intro
01:20 Meet Emma Gillette
02:00 BFA from BYU
05:26 Mormonism at BYU
10:29 Sometimes You Gotta Grind
14:16 Emma’s Mission Experience
18:45 Dealing with “No”
23:05 Character Design Psychology
26:34 Shape Language
28:10 Does Anatomy Matter?
29:54 Baby Face Bias
32:31 Makin’ Motifs
36:15 Drawing Techniques
38:48 The Sketchbook is Going to the Gym
40:43 The Pull of Social Media
42:33 Illustration as a Career
48:21 What Impresses Emma in Illustrations?
50:55 Clean Dirt
53:48 Emma’s Dream Gig
55:33 How to Push Through Discomfort
59:00 Wrap Up

Show Notes
**People**
Brent Adams – https://animation.byu.edu/faculty
Sam Nielson – https://designdept.byu.edu/directory/sam-nielson
Maike Plenzke – https://www.maikeplenzke.com/
Maxine Vee – https://maxinevee.com/
Cory Loftis – https://www.instagram.com/coryloftis/?hl=en)

**Pieces**
SpongeBob SquarePants – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpongeBob_SquarePants
Encanto (2021) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encanto
Hercules (1997) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules_(1997_film)
Tangled (2010) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangled
Frozen (2013) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frozen_(2013_film)
Moana (2016) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moana_(2016_film)
The Boxtrolls (2014) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boxtrolls
Homer Simpson 3D by Miguel Vasquez – https://twitter.com/MiguelVasquez3D/status/1030481558644244480
Monster High – https://shop.mattel.com/collections/monster-high

**Resources**
Brigham Young University Animation Program – https://animation.byu.edu/

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Azure AI Fundamentals Certification 2024 (AI-900) – Full Course to PASS the Exam

By freeCodeCamp.org
Published: Feb 21, 2024

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Prepare for the Azure AI Fundamentals Certification (AI-900) and pass! This course has been updated for 2024.

?? Course developed by Andrew Brown of ExamPro. @ExamProChannel
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?? Contents ??
?? Introduction
???? (00:00:00) Introduction to AI-900
???? (00:08:18) Exam Guide Breakdown

?? ML Introduction
???? (00:12:51) Layers of Machine Learning
???? (00:13:59) Key Elements of AI
???? (00:14:57) DataSets
???? (00:16:37) Labeling
???? (00:17:43) Supervised and Unsupervised Reinforcement
???? (00:19:09) Netural Networks and Deep Learning
???? (00:21:25) GPU
???? (00:22:21) CUDA
???? (00:23:29) Simple ML Pipeline
???? (00:25:39) Forecast vs Prediction
???? (00:26:24) Metrics
???? (00:27:58) Juypter Notebooks
???? (00:29:13) Regression
???? (00:30:50) Classification
???? (00:31:44) Clustering
???? (00:32:29) Confusion Matrix

?? Common AI Workloads
???? (00:34:06) Anomaly Detection AI
???? (00:34:59) Computer Vision AI
???? (00:37:05) Natural Language Processing AI
???? (00:38:42) Conversational AI

?? Responsible AI
???? (00:40:16) Responsible AI
???? (00:41:09) Fairness
???? (00:42:08) Reliability and safety
???? (00:43:00) Privacy and security
???? (00:43:45) Inclusiveness
???? (00:44:24) Transparency
???? (00:45:00) Accountability
???? (00:45:45) Guidelines for Human AI Interaction
???? (00:46:04) Follow Along Guidelines for Human AI Interaction

?? Congitive Services
???? (00:57:33) Azure Cognitive Services
???? (00:59:41) Congitive API Key and Endpoint
???? (01:00:08) Knowledge Mining
???? (01:04:42) Face Service
???? (01:06:30) Speech and Translate Service
???? (01:08:04) Text Analytics
???? (01:11:02) OCR Computer Vision
???? (01:12:22) Form Recognizer
???? (01:14:48) Form Recognizer Custom Models
???? (01:15:34) Form Recognizer Prebuilt Models
???? (01:17:33) LUIS
???? (01:19:58) QnA Maker
???? (01:24:19) Azure Bot Service

?? ML Studio
???? (01:26:45) Azure Machine Learning Service
???? (01:28:10) Studio Overview
???? (01:29:39) Studio Compute
???? (01:30:48) Studio Data Labeling
???? (01:31:45) Data Stores
???? (01:32:34) Datasets
???? (01:33:44) Experiments
???? (01:34:16) Pipelines
???? (01:35:23) ML Designer
???? (01:36:07) Model Registry
???? (01:36:34) Endpoints
???? (01:37:50) Notebooks

?? AutoML
???? (01:38:41) Introduction to AutoML
???? (01:41:15) Data Guard Rails
???? (01:42:01) Automatic Featurization
???? (01:43:53) Model Selection
???? (01:44:57) Explanation
???? (01:45:51) Primary Metrics
???? (01:47:43) Validation Type

?? Custom Vision
???? (01:48:14) Introduction to Custom Vision
???? (01:48:58) Project Types and Domains
???? (01:51:54) Custom Vision Features

?? Features of generative AI solutions
???? (01:54:32) AI vs Generative AI
???? (01:57:17) What is a LLM Large Language Model
???? (01:58:58) Transformer models
???? (02:00:14) Tokenization
???? (02:01:26) Embeddings
???? (02:02:46) Positional encoding
???? (02:04:27) Attention

?? Capabilities of Azure OpenAI Service
???? (02:08:01) Introduction to Azure OpenAI Service
???? (02:10:29) Azure OpenAI Studio
???? (02:11:44) Azure OpenAI service pricing
???? (02:13:14) What are Copilots
???? (02:15:43) Prompt engineering
???? (02:18:51) Grounding
???? (02:20:36) Copilot demo

?? Follow Alongs
???? (02:24:04) Setup
???? (02:35:02) Computer Vision
???? (02:38:44) Custom Vision Classification
???? (02:45:22) Custom Vision Object Detection
???? (02:51:18) Face Service
???? (02:54:30) Form Recognizer
???? (02:58:01) OCR
???? (03:02:54) Text Analysis
???? (03:06:37) QnAMaker
???? (03:25:11) LUIS
???? (03:30:56) AutoML
???? (03:48:13) Designer
???? (03:58:31) MNIST
???? (04:18:10) Data Labeling
???? (04:22:38) Clean up

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Replace White Backgrounds in Photoshop [Complete Process]

By Photoshop Training Channel
Published: Feb 16, 2024

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Master this professional technique to seamlessly replace white backgrounds in Photoshop!

This unbeatable technique offers non-destructive editing and preserves original shadows, resulting in stunningly realistic compositions that bring your work to life. Perfect for creators seeking precision and realism in their work.

I hope you enjoy this Photoshop tutorial!

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???? INDEX – Replace White Backgrounds in Photoshop

00:00 – Introduction
00:17 – Remove The Background
00:52 – Create the Shadow Layer
01:19 – Blend The Shadow Layer
01:51 – Mask The Shadow Layer
02:43 – Control Shadow Intensity
03:45 – Fix Shadow Color Cast

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