Problems crop up all the time with animation projects. Frankly there’s a lot of moving parts – pun intended – and therefore a lot to potentially go wrong. One common problem is when character rigs have broken links from appending or updating between multiple artists using the same file. Surely most Read more…
A cooler way to build realistic materials In the real world, seamless textures don’t exist. Materials are made of layers: Age, wear, paint, dirt, damage, and all of the things that make real objects real. In this tutorial, learn how to use procedural masked and layered materials to quickly populate Read more…
Make the Leap to Blender 2.8 and Grease Pencil The massive update to Blender’s Grease Pencil (GP) tool in the upcoming 2.8 release continues to awe the community. As a fully featured 2D animation toolset, it’s a great time to test the waters with the 2.8 beta. In this tutorial, Read more…
Goodbye Pointiness Edge detection and cavity masking are very important characteristics of procedural materials. Edge wear is common to any object with age along with cavities and crevices that are constantly attracting dirt, dust, and grime. So it’s a good idea to know how to generate procedural factors (masks) for Read more…
Exploring Grease Pencil in Blender 2.8 Let’s take the new features of Blender 2.8’s Grease Pencil for a test drive! Grease Pencil is easily one of the most exciting developments in 2.8 and it’s time we got in on the action. NOTE: Blender 2.8 is in active development and changes Read more…
When viewing animations and sharing them online, it’s often best for them to be looped especially if they’re short like a bouncing ball. This way the action can be reviewed several times as opposed to once and then have to annoyingly press the replay button over and over. In this Read more…
Booleans are essential to hard surface modeling. But they can produce some ugly results if they’re not used carefully. In this video, Thibaut Bourbon deciphers the anatomy of clean booleans and the techniques for achieving them, all with Blender’s included tools. If hard surface modeling is your thing, don’t miss Read more…
A Fresh Approach to Creature Design Silk is an interactive, generative design tool that lives at http://weavesilk.com/. It interpolates off the speed and path of your strokes to generate unique shapes that you may not have created yourself explicitly by hand. This offers concept artists a fresh approach to designing Read more…
Heat distortions in Blender are a fantastic atmospheric effect that can really help sell the realism of any shot containing excessive heat. From lava to jet engines, this method will help you replicate realistic heat distortions in no time! Spitfire Mk IXe model and textures courtesy of martinsifrar on Sketchfab.https://sketchfab.com/models/4bfb316cfc65457e9bc97346b3ccf591 Read more…
Text to Image: http://t2i.cvalenzuelab.com/Sources of inspiration can be huge productivity boosters. Today, in this video tutorial we’ll take a look at an AI text to image converter that generates some pretty amazing results!
