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Browsing Archive: February, 2012

Can Blender do a glitter material? You know it can!

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Wednesday, February 29, 2012, In : Just for fun 
Today I spent most of the morning's work time on finding a way to replicate a glitter containing plastic (thought it would be cool if Blender could do that) and in the last tutorial, Procedural Textures - An Introduction, I showed an intro as to a possible method, but I was yet to fully give it a try and today I did and it looks fantastic.

You can see how it responds here. I rendered only a low res version that you can watch here, but this was just for fun, not work:
Glitter Material

Enjoy!

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A world mapping tip.

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Wednesday, February 29, 2012, In : Tutorials 
In the new Blender releases, there are a few bugs, one of which is a mapping issue in Blender Render, aka Blender Internal BI), that prevents any procedural textures (and possibly images), from sticking to the world. Global mapping responds exactly the same as View mapping, which means if your camera moves, your texture moves with it (not very realistic at all).

So as I was seeing the problem (knowing this error was in the tutorial), I had no clue as to what to do and HE gave me a brilliant so...
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Brand New Free Tutorial!!!

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Friday, February 24, 2012, In : Tutorials 
Heya peoples!!

Great news! I just finished a new free tutorial on Procedural Textures in Blender:
Procedural Textures - An Introduction

It features details on the cloud procedural texture as well as two tutorials on how you can apply them to create things you'd normally need to buy textures for or find online. This way, you can get smart, make your own and stand out. This is the cover:


Currently, it is only available through e-mail order due to it's size (~12 MB PDF), but absolutely worth it. You...

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Update on the business warrior project!

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Wednesday, February 22, 2012, In : wip 
Sorry I didn't update you guys on this project as often as I did the music room.

Here we go. After not being really active on this, I modeled a lot on one day (the shirt and the jacket or it was just the shirt, I don't recall). Anyway, but the next day I did the pants and posted that online, but the overall compositing didn't quite suite what I wanted the image to be like, but this is how it looked:


(Right-click > View Image for full size)

It was like the glow was just too much. I like the look ...
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JESUS short-film in anime!

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Monday, February 20, 2012, In : JESUS Film anime 
This is by far the most accurate I've seen, apart from The Passion Of The CHRIST. So two thumbs way up on that. But the biggest and I mean biggest point of accuracy mostly missed is that of the cross. In this film the beam they had to carry is absolutely spot on! (I tend to focus a lot on the details, because it is the little foxes that spoil the vine).

This is a fantastic short and I would recommend it gladly. I am very very very pleased to have been proven wrong on my objections towar...
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A bit of an announcement

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Friday, February 17, 2012, In : General 
It seems BlenderArtists.org has a problem with the amount of images they are getting posted on the threads, so I'm forced to make this the main location for updates regarding progress on projects. That means, for the most info, check the threads and FB for notifications as to when I post or subscribe using the "Subscribe to this blog" widget on top of the page.

As a first update, I'd like to mention Cycles! The new render engine unique to and built into Blender. What makes it unique to Blender...
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Business Warrior update (landscape addition).

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Wednesday, February 15, 2012, In : wip 
This is a rough post to show the overall composition in HD at 50% resolution. The clouds are gone, because of layer masking.



My brother (the one for who I'm doing this project) wanted me to add lightning so I watched Andrew Price's tutorial on lightning and here it is adapted for this project:

(the bolt is also cut on account of layer masking for the character sketch)

I have a problem with the lightning in the scene and I'm sure most of you will agree (feel free to comment via the Facebook page...
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Business Warrior landscape!

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Monday, February 13, 2012, In : wip 
Hey everyone!

I'm here with some updates on the last post of the Business Warrior project!

I've struggled working on a cloud method HE revealed to me a while back, because it's a very unpredictable way of cloud making, but if you get it right, it can look pretty amazing imo (in my opinion).

Now, before we can start working on the character, we need a place for him to be. So, we need a landscape to fill the background and in this case also foreground. To create or model landscapes is no easy feat...
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New project on at BlenderArtist.org

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Friday, February 10, 2012, In : wip 
My brother wanted me to portray him as some sort of business warrior. I asked HIM how that would look and these sketches was the result:

I've also done a few things including the sword:



This is not the final sword, because I edited it and added a handle. For more info check out BlenderArtists.org in the Business Warrior thread.



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Cartooning in Blender

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Friday, February 3, 2012, In : wip 
I've seen some works by people on the BlenderArtists.org threads and I was amazed at how much 3D models can look like cartoons if done right so I asked a friend there, bizla, if he knew anything about it. He did, thankfully and he told me where to find the settings for it and after fiddling with it a minute or so, I found out the following:

Your object's outline size is not gonna change if you increase the edge threshold. Increasing the threshold only makes it more sensitive to the mesh and if...
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