Hey all!

I didn't think people made such things, but eh, haha. Anyway, here is a Material Reference for those of you who would like to study the materials for the Make Human to Anime in Blender tutorial:



Have a great one!

Thank YOU!!!!!!

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Today is a bit of a follow-up / QBT post based on yesterday's with the tooned monkeys. After yesterday's post, I worked on doing a final monkey (no textures, so the lines are limited) and this was the result:


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Hey all!!

3 for 3 this week so far, hahaha!

This week, I was on the Blender Game Engine group and I saw someone asking how to do a toon material for a game. I thought it would be insanely complex, requiring an extra mesh or whatever, but you can get a pretty cool look, is, just by using the material options:

As you can see, we have two very similar shapes. The one to the top left is low-poly and the one to the right is, high-poly. Naturally, the high-poly looks nicer, but with a little fine tuni...
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Hey all!

A very much requested material (not requested from me, but definitely requested a lot) is a glossy black. And here is how you can make it in Blender Render as well as Cycles Render.

On Cycles Render, it is the easiest thing! Just add a new material to an object or area you want a glossy black and apply this to it:


Blender Render is a bit more complex, since it is not as physically accurate as Cycles. So, I want you to c...
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Hey all,

Today I got to work on the book again (can anyone say yey!), lol.

I am currently in the section that describes how you can layer them to get various effects and so on and this little image, is from that chapter. This one, specifically, deals with layering using procedural textures to mask, if you will, other textures:

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Hey people!!

Today I wanted to take my first shot at wood with Cycles and did some water, sky and so on, and this was the result:


The render was done at 10 samples. Not bad considering the low amount. Here is a free tip. While working with the render view, it is much much faster to set it to a single sample, Direct light and while layering textures to use an emission shader. It means that you don't have to wait nearly as long for a preview and you pretty much get to see a live result on your ob...
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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!

Thank...
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