BlenderArt Magazine Issue #16, “WOW! Factor” released

Published by Tim Formica [Room335] on June 4th, 2008 in 3D News

"In this issue we take a look at some of the techniques used to create spectacular effects in Blender. With several areas covered such as water, smoke, fire, hair and even realistic skin, you are guaranteed to find a new technique/or tool for your next project.

So grab your copy today."

Also be sure to check out our gallery of wonderful images submitted by very talented members of our community.

Table of Contents:

Skin Shading using multi-layered SSS

Realistic Smoke in Blender

Twirl of Smoke in Blender

Making hair for Wolf

Gone with the waves

Burn Them All!

Procedurally Driven Scene

Making - Meet the Eye

And more . . .

Blenderart Mag Mirrors can be found at:

www.blenderart.org

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29 Responses to “BlenderArt Magazine Issue #16, “WOW! Factor” released”

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1 Omar Modesto Jun 4th, 2008 at 6:12 pm

Yes! Thank you.

*hurries to download*
2 Souler Jun 4th, 2008 at 6:22 pm

Omg that's GREAT!!! I cant relly tell how long ive been waiting for a good smoke tutorial!

*downloads*

Thx!!! =^-^=
3 MrNoodle Jun 4th, 2008 at 6:26 pm

Amazing stuff!!I 'll start following the tutorials right now
4 lsscpp Jun 4th, 2008 at 7:02 pm

Wow! Already??
5 Aka Jun 4th, 2008 at 7:19 pm

Check out apricot site!
6 Len Jun 4th, 2008 at 8:05 pm

This must be one of the best BlenderArt magazines I've seen. I've been peeking at the multi-layered SSS tests thread at Blenderartists.org for a while but have never had time to sit down and work through all of it and try it out, but now there's a nicely step-by-step formatted one in the mag! Same goes for the fire tut.

Well done guys, looks like a killer issue!
7 Satish "ILuvBlender" Goda Jun 4th, 2008 at 8:09 pm

Awesome. Just in time to play with the 2.46 release. Thanks to all involved for making this issue possible.
8 roofoo Jun 4th, 2008 at 8:40 pm

Any mirrors? I can't get it to download…. :(
9 Dusty Jun 4th, 2008 at 8:43 pm

Sweet! This is a great edition to the series! And the wow factor is very well covered here! Thanks!
10 roofoo Jun 4th, 2008 at 8:48 pm

nevermind, it worked this time…
11 Charles Jun 4th, 2008 at 10:29 pm

Really cool! But the WOW factor isn't in the technique…
12 temujin143 Jun 5th, 2008 at 12:07 am

Thanks blenderart people. :)
13 Sandra Gilbert Jun 5th, 2008 at 1:39 am

Charles: Actually, very rarely is the "WOW" in the technique or the tool/feature itself. The WOW is most often in the end result. And as with most things in life, most WOW effects can be accomplished in more than one way. This issue covers a few of the ways to accomplish some WOW results.
14 ysvry Jun 5th, 2008 at 2:20 am

great mag thx.
15 Jean-Sébastien Guillemette Jun 5th, 2008 at 2:42 am

Very nice mag!

Great job Sandra and every others! The community appreciates it alot :D
16 ArtIsLight Jun 5th, 2008 at 3:19 am

Thank you very much! Nice render on the front! Thanks for the hard work! God bless
17 DarkLimit Jun 5th, 2008 at 5:00 am

-Much thanks for this issue-
18 Dion Moult Jun 5th, 2008 at 5:47 am

I like.
19 gauravanim Jun 5th, 2008 at 5:53 am

lets download it fast
20 Pixelvore Jun 5th, 2008 at 10:18 am

Proud to see my article in the mag… :) I hope you'll have fun reading it, as much as I've enjoyed writing it !
The others articles are great too. I'm out of date concerning the particles system, and seemingly the articles will help me to update myself… The fire tutorial is particularly… audacious. I hadn't thought that the main trick was done using composite nodes.
21 Sanne Jun 5th, 2008 at 11:54 am

Thanks to all contributors for another great magazine!

I went through the multilayer sss article and got nice results. Congrats for such a fine article, Pixelvore, and thank you for writing it. It's amazing what's possible with material nodes, I really should dive more into it.

The other articles also look very promising. Wow, indeed. :)
22 BonE Jun 5th, 2008 at 3:41 pm

I vote for a WOW! button next to the render button
23 Pixelvore Jun 5th, 2008 at 6:02 pm

Yeah, between the [Generate-a-fully-textured-and-rigged-character] button and the [Real-time-Global-Illumination] button, located in the {WOW} panel… :)
24 Sandra Gilbert Jun 5th, 2008 at 6:52 pm

LOL, don't forget the "Make My Render Beautiful" button and the "Create an Amazing Short Like Pixar" buttons.
25 Old guest Jun 5th, 2008 at 8:55 pm

blenderart.org is one that WOW! things that can happen in my art life!
A Good read! Thanks
26 CoyHot Jun 5th, 2008 at 9:51 pm

I'm really proud to have three of my articles in this wonderfull issue (Smoke using Billboard / Making waves / Fire using particles). Hope you'll like them.

Thank you too Sandra for your amazing work !!! That's the power of the open source community ! ;o)
27 Senilco Jun 6th, 2008 at 10:59 am

Well. I guess each and every issue of BlenderArtMagazine has this build in WOW-factor.

Many thanks Sandra for this exceptional work!
28 PapaSmurf Jun 7th, 2008 at 9:10 pm

woooot! I really need to get something published in this great magazine. Thank you publisher!
29 Sandra Gilbert Jun 8th, 2008 at 9:52 am

PapaSmurf: we would be happy to publish your work. Contact me at sandra@blenderart.org and we can get something arranged. :)