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Browsing Archive: October, 2015

Background tests

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Friday, October 30, 2015, In : wip 
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Recently, I was prompted by GOD to look into making stronger backgrounds for toon objects and that meant higher sample rates and smooth shading - none of these are good for toon-shading, because they all produce smooth colors and areas, not hard ones, but through about an afternoon's scene building and a night's compositing, HE helped me get it done, so now you can get a result like this:


Now, this may not look like much, because it seems like a silly example, but you have to look beyo...
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Weird outline

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Thursday, October 8, 2015, In : Tips 
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This morning again, I came across a very familiar problem, that typically doesn't bother me, but today it really did bug me and it is an outline that forms when you use transparency in Blender Render. It looks like this:


(Simply scaling up doesn't help - the outline scales too and it's always the color of the sky)

The reason for this, I don't know, but I do know when it does it; when using Z-Transparency. Usually the fastest method and compatible with the mist feature, it does have it's...
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Water

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Tuesday, October 6, 2015, In : Just for fun 
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The theme for the Make Human competition this month (October 2015) is Supernatural. Below is my entry and the post with it :D


Theme:
The entry for October is called "Water". I thought it would be a clever title, because people will definitely wonder "Water?! What did he do?" haha.
This one is of JESUS walking on the water, specifically from Matthew 14. That has to be one of the coolest supernatural things HE did, apart from going to the cross on purpose.

Process:
In the initial render, I ...
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Covet

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Monday, October 5, 2015, In : Tips 
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This was the coolest thing! I was busy brushing my teeth or something when GOD showed me what it means to covet. I haven't understood this term since I was little and it has always bugged me. For many reasons, but mostly because as I understood it, it meant that you're not allowed to want anything anybody else has for any reason - which was simply not practical when I thought about it as well. For example, let's say you don't have food and others do, you would be in sin if you wanted...
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