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Material Reference

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Tuesday, May 26, 2015, In : Tutorials

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:

Thanx to The Intelligence Division on YouTube for requesting this! I hope this helps you and many others too! :D

Have a great one!

Thank YOU!!!!!!

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UV solution

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Friday, January 10, 2014, In : Tips

Hey all!

Recently I was working on a tile example and I found something weird (this is in Cycles). I'm very used to Blender unwrapping well and having no problems with it's unwrapping, but there is one:

When your shape is too simple, with originally too few coordinates,
your unwrapping will not stretch or distort your textures along the unwrapping.

What I did find, very thankfully from above, is that if you subdivide it a bit, at least once, Blender has more points of reference and your UV will n...

Nasa is being very generous

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Saturday, August 24, 2013, In : General

Hey all!

Today I would like to share a little something I got from one person that got it from another person, that apparently found it on NASA's website. What is this thing? Free 3D models of various spacey stuff!

Obviously, I just really wanted to give this a go and I believe GOD gave me a quick chance to try it and this was the result (after HE had me fix the textures, but more on that later):

DSN 70m Satellite Dish, Nasa

Obviously, I'm no expert on these things and have never seen their bases...

C'est un mushroom!

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Wednesday, July 10, 2013, In : Tips

Hey all!

Just practicing my French a bit, lol. Here is a mushroom a friend challenged to me to make! It was such a difficult thing to do and I smugly thought: "this will be easy", lol. Famous last words I guess, lol. The Word also says that pride comes before a fall, so this one put me back in my proper place really quick. Thank YOU JESUS!

Here is the reference image I used.

Anywho, here is the final:

What made this image very difficult came down to a few things:
- Little bits on the top
- Colora...

Texture reference guide started!!

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Wednesday, April 11, 2012, In : Tutorials

I believe HE wanted me to give you a bit of a freebie, so here is a page from the texture reference section on the procedural texture for wood, so here you go (^^,).

To download, right click and save the image.
Have a fantastic day!!

Thank YOU!!!!!!!!!!!

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