Hey! I'm having an incredible learning experience, not only learning how Blender works (yes, still learning), but also about Open-Source and the incredible software available. Stick around!
Posted by Marius Oberholster on Thursday, March 30, 2017,
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Tutorials
Hey all!
Super glad to be able to get this video done. I have quite a story behind this one that I know you are gonna luv reading, so to prevent the temptation of watching first, the tutorial is at the bottom of the post.
Why cover caustics in Cycles when it was done in Blender Render already? A fairly obvious question to those who use Cycles, but not to everyone. Cycles is a newer engine in Blender and is built for realism. This makes things like toon-style NPR extremely difficult. Styles li... Continue reading ...
Posted by Marius Oberholster on Monday, March 27, 2017,
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Tutorials
Hey all!
About a week ago, I got some comment on YouTube from a user called: CNR Games. He was very excited about the Node Groups I was using in the Compositing: Toon Shading with Soft Shadows tutorial. As many of you know, Node Groups are a way of putting together sets of nodes that just make your setup look cleaner and function better. You could say it is a form of logic visual programming.
Anyway, in my projects, I usually use a very specific set of nodes that I use in pretty much every rend... Continue reading ...
Posted by Marius Oberholster on Saturday, March 25, 2017,
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News
Hey all!
Yesterday, there was a very very interesting blog post shared, concerning Blender's upcoming new realtime engine called Eevee. While the posts states that this is the nickname, I kinda like the sound of it. Kinda suits the idea, because to me it sounds quick and speedy, and fast, and prompt, haha, you get the point.
I read through it and I am super happy with what they are planning, to say the least. I was hoping that they would have it already done and functioning by now. While the PB... Continue reading ...
Posted by Marius Oberholster on Tuesday, March 21, 2017,
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General
Hey all!!
This blog is profoundly quiet for the main reason that I'm working on an animation about Exodus 7-12, KJV. For clarity, that means chapters 7-12. These cover the 10 plagues and their exit after the first Passover, but stops before the read sea,
Just to give you a reminder, check out this playlist:
GOD is super great!!
If you want to continue seeing steady posts, for the moment, that will be the most active blog for the time being. I totally recommend stopping by beyond checking out the... Continue reading ...