Blender Ocean Tutorial in Computer Arts Magazine

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7.jpgIn 3D World’s question of the month the question “How do I animate a raft adrift on the surface of the ocean?” was answered by Bassam Kurdali with a Blender tutorial. It is now free for download in .pdf form complete with sample files at different stages.

The tutorial ends up with a very nice cartoon styled result, but the method can pretty easily be tweaked to obtain more realistic ocean surfaces. However if one wants even more photo realistic ocean, some of Colin Litster’s techniques might be better.

Continue to Computer Arts Magazine to read the tutorial.

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    • http://applegrew.blogspot.com/ AppleGrew

      wow the effect is very much like in AOE3

    • Chris Smith

      I just downloaded the pdf…..another awesome job from the Blender guys! (I’ll have to try it out soon….)

    • Kram1032

      Great :D

    • Studio Stockwell

      First the walk cycle. Then UV mapping / texturing. Now water. Whatever next? Blender getting some more exposure :)

    • TXRXFX

      Yea, that was a cool tutorial tho it should be pointed out that the regular ‘top-tip’ tutorial section in 3d world (where this originated) has maya, max, xsi, cinema3d tutorials every month.

      Not as many blender tutorials as I’d like to see in 3dWorld. Specially when they just regurgatate the same tuts with different meshes every 4 months ;)

    • Xtra

      Hm, nice, but not really realistic. Maybe realism was not the intention here.

    • Carter

      Yeah this one is pretty old, around christmas I think. I would have said something, but I thought it was already covered.

    • http://blender3d.org.ua balista

      Wow! This is very nice tutorial! I liked it.

    • http://www.my3dtutorials.com RealFlow Tutorials

      I agree with Xtra. The tutorial is nice but not really realistic.

    • ibnyassen

      thank you very much bassam ^_^

    • Cubedude04

      http://youtube.com/watch?v=7t7fy21WzoE

      My attempt at it

      Also the duck’s movement is really screwed up i know so try to ignore it.