Matt Jones | Multimedia Specialist

Category: 3D Modeling

  • [VIDEO] Modeling With Curves In Blender

    [VIDEO] Modeling With Curves In Blender

    Modeling With Curves In Blender Harness the power of modeling with curves in Blender and take your skills to the next level. In this video, we’re going to tackle: Differences between curves and meshes Advantages of curves over meshes Handle types Extruding curves Beveling curves Modeling a logo from scratch Difference between 2D and 3D…

  • [VIDEO] Intro To Mesh Modeling in Blender

    [VIDEO] Intro To Mesh Modeling in Blender

    Intro to Mesh Modeling in Blender Learn mesh modeling in blender: Multiple ways to add meshes to your scene Switch between Object mode and Edit mode Scale objects Transform objects Rotate objects Edit meshes directly, creating your own custom shapes Keyboard shortcuts to make your workflow faster The basics of the Loopcut

  • [VIDEO] Layout Control in Blender 2.8

    [VIDEO] Layout Control in Blender 2.8

    Layout Control in Blender 2.8 Let’s take a look at some concepts that will help you gain a better understanding of layout control in Blender 2.8. In this video, we’ll cover: Every single window type in detail Creating and deleting custom tabs Creating custom themes and loading from the theme preset library Saving your custom…

  • Mobile UI/UX Proof of Concept

    Mobile UI/UX Proof of Concept

    Prologue I will say, this project was born out of a strange, confusing, and quite frankly stressful time. My job description was very much up in the air, and and there was even uncertainty around this entire project. Unfortunately, this project never saw the light of day, but I have been searching hard drives all…

  • [VIDEO] “Never Forgotten” Full Animation

    [VIDEO] “Never Forgotten” Full Animation

    Well… I guess it’s time. I’ve been working on this animation for longer than I care to admit, but I’m definitely ready to release this thing into the wild, take my lessons and move on. And when I say ‘lessons’… I mean LOTS of lessons. And I’m so glad I tackled this project the way…

  • Sculpting Bootcamp: Day 2

    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.

  • Sculpting Bootcamp: Day 1

    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…

  • Using the Cell Fracture Addon to Destroy Statues

    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…

  • Blender Smoke Simulation: Creating Windblown Dunes

    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…

  • Subsurf vs Multires: What’s the Difference?

    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.