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Brass

May 12, 2016
Hey all!


Brass

Last week I looked at a brass material for a project I'm working on, and through the references I got, I could not tell the difference between brass and gold, except by context! I must not know them very well, but I was really surprised. I even ask some other people if they could and still they were as perplexed as I was.

What I did find out is that brass is sometimes a more pale yellow than gold is. Gold can often be an almost orange-y color. Not completely, but you get the point. So anyway, this material was one that GOD helped me put together and should do what I want it to do for the project, but I really feel like HE wants me to share this material with you. Be aware, this is for Blender Render and is a basic shader with a few procedural textures on it - don't expect it to just fit your stuff - be ready to adjust it. :D.

As always, 100% at your own risk. You take full responsibility for anything and everything you do with this material (and that means the blend file and everything contained in it). I am not responsible for your choices. I have virus protection on my PC and to the best of my knowledge, it's virus free, but as a precaution, always scan devices and files before you use them - even when you trust the source. Again, 100% at your own risk.
Just click here to download it.

It took about a day's sporadic work to get it like this, but if GOD didn't help me, it would still look like yellow plastic, hahaha.

Have a great one and GOD bless!!
 

Anime style dust cloud

April 20, 2016
Hey all!



In some anime shows, there is a dust cloud that follows some explosions that looks a lot like this. I've wanted to do it for a while, but only got the release to give it a shot last night, after downloading Animation Nodes. I don't know 100% how Animation Nodes work, but I have to say, that it does take some getting used to and there is definitely a need for tutorials, hahaha. Having said that, you don't need animation nodes for this tutorial, though they do make things a lot easier!

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Unofficial Viewport Branch

April 19, 2016
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...

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Clouds

March 25, 2016
Good day everyone!

This week went mostly to clouds! haha. Not a bad thing, because I really do like the results.

If you have every struggle with clouds or didn't know how to, checking out mine and Andrew Price's you'll be able to skip lots of headaches!

You can watch mine here:

(GOD is awesome!!)

You can watch Andrew's here - he's also the one GOD referred me to for modelling clouds better:


Have a great day and GOD bless!!

Know JESUS yet?

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