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Creating a Pup Tent – part 2

cgcookie — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:19:28 +0000

This is the last part in the Pup Tent tutorial. In this part, we’ll be applying procedural textures for the different aspects of the tent, and then we’ll use a paint application to extract a background image for our scene. Back in Blender, we’ll create a ground area and also use Blender’s particles system to create grass. Finally, we’ll create render layers and use Blender’s compositing nodes to color correct things before doing a final render.

Creating a Face Rig

cgcookie — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:18:06 +0000

This tutorials covers how to create a more advanced type of facial rig, showing you how to use the “stretch to” constraint to give the face a more fluid way of animating. The “stretch to” is great for things like lips and eyelids (which is shown in this tutorial); in addition, I show you how to make the eyelids “stick” to the eyeball surface, so there’s no unwanted gap between the two while animating.

Tip: Using the Snapping Tool

cgcookie — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:17:55 +0000

The snapping tool in Blender allows you to snap your mesh selection to any other vertice, edge, face, or volume. This is a very handy technique for precision modeling.

Textures: Panoramic Skies

cgcookie — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:17:37 +0000

Everyone likes free stuff, but as artists free stuff can be a real life saver. With this round of free stuff, we are including 6 sky panoramic textures. These textures are 4096×2048 and are licensed as CC Attribution 3.0. You are free to use them for just about any use. In commercial work and personal, just not allowed to redistribute or resell.

These images were created with Dreamscape from Afterworks, a 3D Studio Max Plugin. But don’t fret, these are .tgas and work great with Blender.

Model: Male Base Mesh

cgcookie — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:17:16 +0000

Everyone likes free stuff, but as artists free stuff can be a real life saver. With this round of free stuff, we are giving away a free human male base mesh model! These models are licensed as CC Attribution 3.0. You are free to use it for just about any use, commercial and personal, so long as you attribute the work back to the original author. You may not redistribute or resell the work.

The model is fully unwrapped and ready for sculpting, texturing, etc.

Models: Kitchen Appliance set

cgcookie — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:16:59 +0000

Everyone likes free stuff, but as artists free stuff can be a real life saver. Whether you need a model quickly for a deadline or are just too lazy to model it yourself, we are here to help! All of these models are released in native .blend format and licensed as CC Attribution 3.0. You are free to use them for any use, commercial or otherwise. Enjoy!

Most of the appliance models are textured, none of them include interiors.

The Monkey

Bart — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 14:02:29 +0000

Kurshad shares this great looking rigged model.

kursad wrote:

I am releasing couple models(that are modeled and rigged in Blender) for free that are licensed under Creative Commons “Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported” license, which means that you can use it freely in your personal and commercial work. The compressed files include the copy of the licenses.

These works are released as Blender files but you can export them to other formats easily.

Vamp Suzanne

Bart — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 14:01:01 +0000

Kurshad shares this great looking models.

kursad wrote:

I am releasing couple models(that are modeled and rigged in Blender) for free that are licensed under Creative Commons “Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported” license, which means that you can use it freely in your personal and commercial work. The compressed files include the copy of the licenses.

These works are released as Blender files but you can export them to other formats easily.

The Scientist

Bart — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:59:33 +0000

Kurshad shares this great looking models.

kursad wrote:

I am releasing couple models(that are modeled and rigged in Blender) for free that are licensed under Creative Commons “Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported” license, which means that you can use it freely in your personal and commercial work. The compressed files include the copy of the licenses.

These works are released as Blender files but you can export them to other formats easily.

Animating with Blender: How to Create Short Animations from Start to Finish

Bart — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:51:57 +0000

Blender expert and author Roland Hess walks you through the entire process of creating a short animation, from writing to storyboarding and blocking, through character creation, animation and rendering.

Learn the ropes from Roland Hess, one of Blender’s developers and a community guru for this FREE animation program, which was used in the previz for Spiderman 2.
Create a single short animation project from start to finish, take an in-depth look into how all of the Blender tools work together.
Study, pick apart and reuse all of the files from the animation referenced throughout the book, with the Blender software and sample animation files included on the companion DVD.