Setting Up Dual Monitors with a Wacom Tablet on Ubuntu 11.04
So I got a nice shiny new monitor delivered yesterday, and relegated the old one to being my secondary display. With that in mind, I wanted an elegant solution for switching my wacom tablet between the...
View ArticleBlender Cookie Tutorial: Texturing and Rendering a Head in Blender
I made this guy for a tutorial on blendercookie.com. The tutorial covers baking textures in blender from a high poly sculpt to a lower resolution mesh for rendering , then painting textures in GIMP,...
View ArticleDepth of Field in Blender
Depth of Field can be a beautiful effect, adding both aesthetic interest to an image, and serving a narrative purpose in drawing the viewer’s attention to the centre of attention. But getting DoF right...
View ArticleA few rigging related python snippets.
I’ve been working on some character rigs recently, and trying to learn and use more python to speed up the process and improve my rigs. One of my favourite uses that I’ve come across so far is using a...
View ArticleCreating Concepts with Alchemy, GIMP, and Blender
I’ve been playing around with Alchemy for a while now, and it’s a suberbly fun little program for coming up with visual ideas. For those of you who don’t know of it, its a 2D drawing application with...
View ArticleBlender Python for Beginners: Some Useful For Loops.
I started learning python a bit more seriously late last year, and since then it’s saved my bacon more times than I can count. It’s a terrific tool both inside and outside of blender, for automating...
View ArticleFun with Instancing in Cycles
I’ve been experimenting more with cycles lately, and one thing I’m really impressed with already is the speed with which it handles instanced objects. I thought I’d share some silly experiments I made...
View ArticleNew Blender Cookie Tutorial: Modelling an Ancient Greek Temple
I’ve got a couple of new tutorials up on Blender Cookie, on modelling and rendering an ancient Greek temple. You can find them here. You’ll need to be a CG cookie member to download these particular...
View ArticleGuest Post: Character Animation Challenge Tutorial
We’ve been busy updating the Gecko Animation site at work lately, and we decided to get rid of some older content on there. Whilst this tutorial by @Laxy doesn’t really fit on the Gecko site anymore,...
View ArticleHalftone Shader
Just want the blend? Skip to the end. This is something I made for work recently and have since been playing around with. It’s pretty fun, so I thought I’d share it with you. It started life as a node...
View ArticleSmarter Scrape Brush
(Apologies for the crappy audio.) A quick mini tutorial on a couple of sculpt brush settings I came up with. They work quite nicely for refining planes quickly when sculpting both hard and soft...
View Article3D Artist Magazine Cover and Tutorial
This months 3D Artist magazine is a Blender special issue, featuring lots of blender related tutorials and articles. I had the pleasure of working on an image for the cover of the magazine, that is...
View Article3D Printing the Spider Bot
Previously I posted some pictures of the 3D printed version of the spider bot from my book, Blender Master Class. In my original post I promised I’d put together a post detailing some of the process...
View ArticleControlling HDRI Lighting with Nodes
I’ve seen a couple of posts recently on getting more control over HDR based lighting setups, specifically in terms of getting crisper shadows. In particular Reyante Martinez and Greg Zaal each posted...
View ArticleWebcast: Creating Cycles Node Materials
Last week I did a live webcast presentation for O’Reilly, where I talked about tips and tricks for creating cycles node materials. I covered different ways of working with node groups, tips for using...
View ArticleBook Questions Answered
I get the occasional question from people following along with the book about how to tackle specific things. In particular the two questions below seem to trip people up. I thought I’d answer them here...
View ArticleBuild a Fairytale Castle Article in 3DArtist Magazine Issue 74
You can find one of my most recent tutorials in the current issue of 3DArtist magazine, which is out now. The article takes you through creating a fantasy castle built on a forest covered mountain in...
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