The community magazine BlenderArt Magazine has published their ninth issue. In this issue they have tutorials and articles on “space”. With over 60 pages it is quite the read!
BlenderArt Magazine Issue #9 Released
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Author Archives: Daniel (Prince)
SSS Rendering with Nodes
Tired of using scripts? Tired of crazy setups for Sub Surface Scattering? Look no further than Blender’s built in Compositor Nodes! This novel approach by Mike Pan (mpan3) uses Blender’s Compositor to create a highlight mask based on the Z render pass.
Celtx – Pre-production Software
Blender is an amazing tool for 3D production and post-production but what about animation pre-production? Alot of projects begin by creating a website, installing a forum, a blog, a project management system such as DotProject and then kind of slap it all together. Although doable, I was gladly surprised that there is an open source creative commons licensed software that combines all of the features for pre-production into one software.
YotoPhoto Image Repository
YotoPhoto – it’s a weird name but it’s an awesome resource! Have you ever been working on a project and needed a reference image. Maybe you needed a color pallette, a background reference, or just some stock art for details in your textures – you can find all of these at YotoPhoto.
Blender in Dev.Mag
BlenderNation is constantly looking for press sitings of Blender and Blender artwork. Recently a South African digital magazine has been publishing articles about Blender and has several tutorials complete with downloadable reference files.
Spin Tutorial
Lucky141, a Blender Community member, has recently published a tutorial set concerning the ever popular, and often misunderstood spin modeling method. This tutorial is actually a 2in1 tutorial since it gives two methods of creating the same thing!
Making Sense of Texture Mapping
Ever see those little coordinate buttons in your Texture Input panel beneath the mapping methods such as Orco, UV, Sticky, etc. and wonder to yourself – what are the XYZ coordinates for my geometry? This small article describes exactly what is going on with those buttons and how you can use them.
Hangar No. 5 Teaser Reel
Blender has found it’s uses in many different toolboxes of the CG industry and one example of commercial Blender usage is in this new short live action/cg film that Nathan Matsuda (nathanmatsuda.com) is creating.
Blender3D Tutorials Search Site
Jason Schluter (Jasonlan) of Blender3DTutorials.com reports that a new search site has been developed based on the new Google Co-op service for searching specifically through Blender related tutorials. Although extremely simple it already has plenty of quality tutorials archived.
The Tutorial Search Engine
DecadeCreations and Raive Studios have a new search engine in development called Tutorial Search Beta. This new search engine has hundreds of tutorials ready for browsing. It even has a category for Blender tutorials!
