Terry Wallwork reviews the new Freestyle 'Level Up!' training.
Blender Freestyle is so flexible and powerful that not many yet know how to use it (or even what it is specifically). There is a lot of misinformation as to what role it plays in the creative pipeline of software such as Blender and other software.In an attempt to remedy this apparent lack of information on what Blender Freestyle is and what it is for Lee Posey and Light BWK have created a series of video tutorials that describe the features that Freestyle has to offer, and also describes how to integrate it into your workflow.
Their stated aim is:
"Learn FreeStyle the fun way. Masterfully create geometry based post-processed *line art* from the very basic to the very advanced for your still images, product design, arch-viz, motion graphics and motion pictures."
Both Lee Posey and Light BWK are very experienced Blender users so you can expect the information they provides to be accurate.
The tutorial series comes with all the videos and Blend files included. The videos are very clear and well encoded and they are spoken very clearly and very well produced.
Read the full review on Terry's website.
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Thanks for the review Terry and thanks for posting it here Bart. :D
Freestyle isn't strictly NPR. I have seen few in-progress projects mixing photo realistic and freestyle line art. They are really really cool.
And this render is freestyle too.
I've recently Leveled Up! myself with this Freestyle Training. I liked that it was easy to get into, easy to understand and follow along; and that it got straight to the point (it was also entertaining too). Freestyle was pretty intimidating for me when I first attempted to learn it on my own, and the instructions I found on various parts of the internet, while somewhat helpful, we're also as confusing. Even after I have learned a bit on my own, including the help I got from the Blender NPR and Freestyle Collaboration Facebook group, this course taught me even more.
The most important thing to me about this training is that, not only does it explain to us what the Freestyle options & settings do, but it actually shows us. In just a couple of hours, I had a significantly deeper understanding of Freestyle, what it does, how it does it, and for what purposes. I had always thought Freestyle was for NPR (such as anime, toon, comics); but I found that it has uses far beyond that. Freestyle is a Line Art tool, as such it can applied to everything. In fact, I use Freestyle with Cycles all the time myself, and I think Cycles fans could also benefit from using Freestyle with their renders.
I've attached an image of a character I created in Blender which was rendered in Cycles and make use of Freestyle line art.
HI,
WARNING !!!
...the purchased videos can only be downloaded in a limit amount of time.
After that time there is no chance to download it again .
looks like" Pay and go home " principle.
contact per email ends up with no answer.
sadly really specially after a PC crashed .
HI,
WARNING !!!
...the purchased videos can only be downloaded in a limit amount of time.
After that time there is no chance to download it again and you must pay again.
looks like" Pay and go home " principle.
contact per email ends up with no answer.
sadly really specially after a PC crash