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Early release - Confirmed

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Wednesday, August 14, 2024, In : News

Hey all!

So, with much prayer and thought, I have decided to release what I have done on Exodus 7-12, kjv, so far. It is ~9mins, stretching the whole of chapter 7 and a part into chapter 8.

Let me first say, this is BY NO MEANS me quitting the project, lol, NO. When you're given an assignment, you have to finish it and finish it I will, by HIS grace, but, I have to be real and recognize that this will most likely take many more years, as I am working on this solo. If it only takes another 8 yea...

For Anime - Motion Smear - Nodegroup Dev

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Wednesday, December 1, 2021, In : News

Hey all!

I'd like to share a journey of filmmaking history! Yes, not al history is worth noting, but I think this one might just be the next, uhm, medium to big thing, hehe.

NPR has always been very popular, especially with children, but there are people, like myself and many others, who think of NPR as more of a medium than a genre. In a lot of western thinking, anime is classified as "cartoons" which also says "for children" and let me just say, if you think all anime is for children, perhaps...

1 - Interesting Developments

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Tuesday, September 21, 2021, In : News

Hey all!

I hope you're all doing well! I have had covid, if some of you don't know. If you were curious about whether it's real, OH YEAH, it is VERY real, lol, and not pleasant. While being fit does help you A LOT (I have been sicker), it is by no means a protection against it and if you are not, it can kill you much more easily. DO NOT give it that chance. If you're a self-proclaimed couch potato, I really wanna encourage you to just start going for a walk everyday - or find some other physic...

Major Node Groups Update and news

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Saturday, August 10, 2019, In : News

Hey all!!

A few things in this post:

- Bring Gerco Home

- Node groups - one update and a few new features

- Update on Exodus and YouTube

Bring Gerco Home is a campaign to fund the money to pay the ransom for Gerco's release. Gerco is was a paramedic at the time of capture and is currently held hostage to the small amount of $1.5mil. I have no idea who they think they've kidnapped, but the family simply doesn't have that kind of money. Not even close. The exchange rate isn't friendly here either...

NPR Shaders

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Monday, April 15, 2019, In : News

Hey all!

As you all know, Wasili and I started a thing in the Blender community at the end of 2017. He and I had spent a few months leading up to that December, building NPR shaders for Eevee - which was really rough in it's phases back then, hehe.

Anyway, since then, I've been working really hard off and on on these and since last month, we've had shaders that don't need to know it's light source, thanx to the incredible work put into the Shader to RGB node.

Today, I am super jazzed to announce...
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Epilogue

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Wednesday, January 3, 2018, In : News

Hey all!

Don't you just love that title?! Sounds so epic! It was from a concentration standpoint. Goodness! hahaha.

With all the work said and done, we have:

Normal and Bump Mapping

Works with averaging what is there with the map itself. Gives a nicely balanced result. Bump maps are also converted to normal maps, but purely based on a flattened version that is connected to all three axes.

Ambient Light

For this feature, I simply added an emission shader and fed it, based on circumstances, either th...

Building a formula with nodes

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Wednesday, January 3, 2018, In : News

Hey all!

Building a formula with nodes is not as hard as it seams, but it can certainly be harder than you think as well.

You have to take quite a few things into account and these make it confusing:

- Order of operations (will affect result)

- Vector math functions available

- Vector math output appropriacy (which output from vector math to use and when)

- Vector transforms required

- Vector separation and joinings required (available math functions dependent)

- Math node functionality

- Math ...

Blinn vs Phong

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Wednesday, January 3, 2018, In : News

Hey all!

Believe it or not, the Blinn and Phong models are not all that different. The goal with Blinn is to have specularity that is similar to Phong, but without it's sensitivity to proximity. This give many advantages within NPR, because it gives yet another thing you can manipulate - the size of the specularity. Source links will be at the end of this post.

Let's look at their formulas (don't worry, this doesn't get very technical) and the variables.

R = Reflected direction to the light sour...

Happy new shaders

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Wednesday, January 3, 2018, In : News

Hey all!

Happy new year!! May GOD bless you in all you lay your hands to for HIS Name's sake!!

I have to say that 2017 certainly came with a lot of unexpected things. I was hoping to finish Exodus by June (haha, hilarious! haha). I was certainly not planning on working on toon shaders for Eevee and honestly, by this time I was expecting a finished Eevee (can someone say super unrealistic, hahaha).

On the plus side - the animation for Exodus has progressed to where chapter 7 is visually complete....

Eevee and the coming render

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Saturday, March 25, 2017, In : News

Hey all!

Yesterday, there was a very very interesting blog post shared, concerning Blender's upcoming new realtime engine called Eevee. While the posts states that this is the nickname, I kinda like the sound of it. Kinda suits the idea, because to me it sounds quick and speedy, and fast, and prompt, haha, you get the point.

I read through it and I am super happy with what they are planning, to say the least. I was hoping that they would have it already done and functioning by now. While the PB...
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Unofficial Viewport Branch

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Tuesday, April 19, 2016, In : News

Hey all!

I first heard of this project in February this year. I was quite surprised at it, I must say, but also, I expected this to come from the official build by this time (a bit hasty, I know, hahaha). Having said that, I am very impressed with what he has been enabled to do this far:

I played around with these a bit and honestly, I needed to re-watch the last video. Cycles' materials, imo, are more complicated than Blender Render's and he had to do some work-arounds. Very impressed nonethel...

Mesh hair tutorials

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Thursday, January 21, 2016, In : News

Hey all!

A while ago, I saw a tutorial by a guy named Alimayo Arango on modelling a character. Specifically, the way he modeled hair was of interest to me. This was a two part tutorial, but felt lead to watch the second part first and guess what it started with?! Yes, modelling mesh hair. This has been such a struggle for me, because I always wanted to try and model the hair as tubes, because that is essentially what they look like in 2D animations. I was so excited!! I'm first showing you the...
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Vintage tutorials and palm update

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Saturday, December 12, 2015, In : News

Hey all!

Today's post is a bit nostalgic with something a little new as well! :D
Quite a while back (like start and middle 2014), I made two tutorials on using unwrapping to your advantage when texturing. Both of those, GOD did not permit me to upload to YouTube back then, but today I felt lead to upload both of them and here they are:

And the new part of today's post is an update on the palm tree I posted on the 9th:

(Tropical storms are regular around these trees, that's why it doesn't seem pha...

GOD is awesome!!

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Saturday, December 5, 2015, In : News

Hey all!

While that may be like stating the obvious, I have to say, I am amazed that GOD uses me every day to reach out to the CG industry with educational material in the form of tutorials. I never run out of material, because GOD never stops teaching me and I need to learn so much!! Wow!

Anyway, this post is about being grateful for this - a feature on BlenderNation!!

I could just freak out and scream from excitement!! Not because I think it's such a wonderful website (which it is), but becaus...

IndySpotlight

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Wednesday, November 25, 2015, In : News

Hey all!

There is a website out there that markets independent (aka, unsigned) Christian Artists of various trades in multi-media. It's called IndySpotlight. The lady who is the steward thereof, posted in Christian Animators (a facebook group) on Sunday about this website, but I basically glanced over it. Later that night, I felt GOD wanted me to share this video on that same group:

So I did, under internal protest, because I hate, for lack of better term, to shove my work down people's throats...

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Early release - Confirmed

For Anime - Motion Smear - Nodegroup Dev

1 - Interesting Developments

Major Node Groups Update and news

NPR Shaders

Epilogue

Building a formula with nodes

Blinn vs Phong

Happy new shaders

Eevee and the coming render

Unofficial Viewport Branch

Mesh hair tutorials

Vintage tutorials and palm update

GOD is awesome!!

IndySpotlight