Nerd Talk
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Particle Systems And Rigid Bodies
Update on the “Never Forgotten” series animation! I’ve since shifted from the desert sands and dunes into a more abstract ‘title sequence’ type vibe. For this section, I’m using particle systems and smoke simulations 100 percent of the time. Starting to get some of the shots back from the render machine, and they’re looking pretty…
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Carrying a Sketchbook
Last week, I tried to challenge myself and sculpt for an hour every day. That quickly fell apart after the second day. The problem was, it’s a little too involved. I only have one Wacom tablet and one 3D mouse. So to do a daily sculpt, that means I have to haul my tablet, mouse,…
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Sculpting Bootcamp: Day 2
Here’s the amazing thing… just the difference between day 1 and day 2, I feel like I’m already improving. I think it’s because I had a reference. Day 1 was hard too.
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Sculpting Bootcamp: Day 1
In preparation for my first ever animated short film, I’m gonna need some characters. Which means I’m gonna need to create some. Which means I need to get better at sculpting. That means sculpting bootcamp. This is just a personal sculpting bootcamp challenge to help me improve my sculpting and pay more attention to human…
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Using the Cell Fracture Addon to Destroy Statues
Getting Started A few weeks back, I tried my hand at creating desert dunes out of a plane. As part of that same project, this week I’m using the cell fracture addon to destroy some statues. I started off with a couple of characters created in MakeHuman. A couple people on blender.chat mentioned that MakeHuman…
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Make It Yours
This project was, I think, the first completely 3D animation produced as a bump for a sermon series. It was easy enough to source the assets, but the biggest challenge of this project was completing it in a week or two on mid-2010 Mac Pros. This project was more of a makeshift exercise in render…
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Blender Smoke Simulation: Creating Windblown Dunes
Shoutout to @loranozor for requesting this walkthrough! I don’t do a blender smoke simulation every day, but one of the biggest takeaways that I got from learning my way through this project was the difference between the resolution divisions of the smoke domain and the resolution divisions under the “high resolution” checkbox. Smoke Domain Resolution…
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Finally Writing Down A 3 Year Old Idea
I’m just not a person who writes things down. I never carry pens or paper. Even if I do happen to have a pen an paper with me, I rarely use them. I carried a Moleskine for…
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Using Mono to Run .exe Files on Linux
Found a great game? Discover a new program? Only available on Windows? No Windows machine? Don’t want to bother dual booting? Running a virtual machine not an option? Me too! Using Mono makes all that a lot easier. Let’s talk about using mono to run .exe files on linux. Mono, according to their website, is…
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Subsurf vs Multires: What’s the Difference?
My name is Matt and I’ve been using Blender for over 10 years. Today I came to understand the difference between subsurf and multires. I’d like to share that information with you now.