Learning Houdini
Simple Houdini pipeline. from Vlad Yudin on Vimeo. Houdini recently released it’s fully functional and commercial “Houdini Indie” product for $200 (for companies making under $100k per year). With...
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Test Renders in Arnold / Maya
Some digital landscapes from Lee Griggs, rendered in Maya with the Arnold rendering engine. A TON more can be seen here, just make sure and full-screen them.
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Blender – Everyday – Day 1
Talking about it enough, but time to “put my money where my mouth is”. I will never really know just how viable Blender is as a base 3D animation software, till I try it. Once per day, for about 2...
View ArticleCapturing Movement w/ Connections Overlayed
Was just introduced to this… …and through watching this… …am guessing they used Brekel and for sure they used Houdini.
View ArticleBlender Tutorial Collections 1
33 Brilliant Blender Tutorials …including” 45 Epic Blender Tutorials …including: Tax time for me, which has to take priority. Plan on putting a bit more time tonight into testing out what I’ve...
View ArticleBlender Day 10 – 3D Cursor and Painting
Sidetracked by this Frankenstein texturing video, which shows an earlier version of Blender’s built in texture painting tool, which also performs cloning of photos right onto the 3D model. Finally,...
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Blender Days 11 & 12 – Materials, Cycles & L-Systems
Initially setup the materials for Blender’s default renderer and noticed that when I switched to the new Cycles renderer, I lost the materials. A quick Internet searching revealed a handy addon called...
View ArticleBlender Day 13, 14 & 15 – Rig & Skins
Spent a few hour hours getting to understand building an Armature (skeleton) in Blender. So many tools available by default and soooo many more can be made available as addons. If you have a cat mesh...
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Blender – 15 Days Later – Open Source is Home
First question that most have is, “What is open source? You mean free?” Yes, it’s free and more. Open source means that not only are you given the product, but you are given the blueprints as well. If...
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Blender 2.76 – New Features
Blender has a new version out, and the thing that first caught my eye was the image below. The ability to smooth bone weight influences… smoothly (without using a paintbrush). When I started learning...
View ArticleCreating Gollum
The Lord of the Rings – Extended Edition DVDs have a great section called “The Taming of Smeagol”, where they talk of the process used to create Gollums 3D character. Includes modeling, motion capture,...
View ArticleBlender – Paint Effects
Haven’t dealt with shots that involve footprints in the snow or walls being splattered with blueberry pies, my jaw hit the floor when I saw this. If you’re quick with the mouse, it takes less than 1...
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