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Marius Oberholster

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!

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A different solution

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Wednesday, February 16, 2022, In : General

Hey all!

I've done many tutorials over the years - roughly 60+. That's nothing to snuff at, hehehe. It takes many many many many hours of work just to make one, and we're not even talking about the actual recording and editing part!

Over the years, I've gotten requests to make the files available for download, which I had an issue with at the time, for many reasons, but one was that I had no stable way of sharing the files. That, and I take a VERY long time to make a decision on something, but ...

Custom brick texture - All procedural

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Friday, July 4, 2014, In : Quick Blog Tutorial

Hey all!

Quick Blog Tutorial time again!

Recently, I saw someone having done their own brick texture and immediately I was wowed, because they did not use the typical brick texture, except maybe to color, but, the bricks were nicely rounded and so, yesterday, GOD challenged me to make one for the verse image below, showing a before and after of compositing for a post on the portfolio blog:

(recent verse image for Cross Allegiance, stop by our Facebook page too and give us a like)

As you can see, ...

Old renders are ready-to-use material

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Monday, March 10, 2014, In : Tips

Hey all!

Feels like forever since the last post, but it seems that I'm only going to be able to do weekly posts for a while. Long story, but, for today, I would like to share a secret with you. A very very big one that the lecturers go on about when you study design.

That secret is: The more work you finish, the more work you have to fall back on for later projects; a library of free material if you will.

For example, you all know I've done a series of images based on the 4 seasons by Vivaldi. N...
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A little progress report

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Tuesday, February 18, 2014, In : wip

Hey everyone!!

Today I get to share a little progress shot from something I'm currently working on:

Currently, this looks more like a caustics study, but actually the scene as it sits is exactly that! It's part of prep work. The ocean floor is right (in terms of distance and possibly color) and so is a lot of the compositing. It has an old-style photo feel that I am really really liking so far.

Now, when I post something, I want it to benefit you, so I want to give you some sort of help. Today, ...

Tiles down, trees up

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Friday, March 8, 2013, In : General

Hey all!

Only started the tree tutorial and almost finished. Yey!

Has been quite a bit of work and I am really jazzed about the result. In it, you will be shown how to do a little something like this:

I like this image a lot and I made like two other compositions, but this one just worked the best for the tutorial. While this is merely a proof of concept, I leave it up to you to really push it further in making it work in your scene (I don't have a scene requiring trees right now, so there is no...
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Camera tracking tips!!

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Thursday, August 23, 2012, In : General

Hey all!!

I want to give you all a freebie on account of all the visitors to the site. 65 per week is a good number so far and I really appreciate every reader!!

The last week or so, I've done work with camera tracking, to try and figure out how I can best work with it and get a great result and HE has given some great advice on working with them and some features you may not know about in Blender.

- Plan your shot
There are many things to consider, one of them is the amount of complex shapes you...
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Missing Person: Erhard Enslin

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Tuesday, July 31, 2012, In : Missing Persons

A friend of mine's cousin went missing on Friday. Though they don't know the details of the how and why yet, they and I do ask for your assistance to blog this everywhere you can and to use social networking as far as you can.
To download the images at full resolution, simply left-click them and they should open the full-res I have available. If it just opens it, you can right-click it and save it.

Here is a flyer with all the info I have available to me:

You can also use this image as you profi...
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