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!
Rough, Rapid, Yet Recognizable Gestural sculpting is like sketching in 3D. And just like sketching, the core idea is to achieve essential shapes and forms in a quick-n-dirty fashion. Precision is not the goal; rather the goal is a rough but recognizable sculpture. The benefit of learning to sculpt gesturally Read more…
It’s pretty easy to create rain in Blender, but it’s much more challenging to make it affect materials realistically. In this Blender tutorial video, we’ll investigate how we can utilize wetmaps to create a realistic rain-wetting effect using dynamic paint! Download Example File: https://drive.google.com/open?id=13LWq29k-FEuj2uUTynkUVFz88mvNUQU8 Continued Blender Learning: Dig more into Dynamics: Read more…
Dirt textures and procedural materials too big to cut it? Make super realistic dirt down to the macro level by utilizing particles in Blender! Boar beetle model courtesy of flioink on Sketchfab.https://sketchfab.com/models/464baec8f1634d7f9a5d41fa946c9d21 Learn More Blender Curious about texturing in Blender? Dive into the full course on learning to texture in Read more…
In this tutorial, we will create a retro styled rocket in Photoshop. We will explore the importance of details in creating a complex illustration, as well as how to create realistic surfaces. Moreover we will look into the process of using layer masks and how effectively they can control your Read more…
