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Marius Oberholster

Hey! I'm having an incredible learning experience, not only learning how Blender works (yes, still learning), but also about Open-Source and the incredible software available. Stick around!

For Anime tutorial series 1 - Water reflections

February 8, 2016

Hey all!

I have had this on my heart for quite a while, to do a series on modelling for anime style backgrounds. In this one, we look at Water Reflections:

(Very short and very straight forward)

Now, this is also a very simplistic way of doing these sort of reflections. In fact, this is just when water flows in a straight line. If you have water that goes around bends, you need to adapt this and unwrap your river and toss out the empty and use the texture offset options. To show you how this work, and not just tell you to do it, GOD already prepared a tutorial long ahead of time, and here it is:

(My very first Blender Video Tutorial!! :D) )

Remember, always read my videos' descriptions on YouTube. There are always extra tips and hints in there and of course, always finished off with the gospel! :D

GOD's leading for these videos will always amaze me - no matter how simple!

Have a great one and GOD bless!!

Posted by Marius Oberholster. Posted In : Tutorials

ZTransparency Edge fix

February 3, 2016

Hey all!

A while ago, I posted an article about the edge that ZTransparency (in Blender Render) creates around solid faces in front of it and sometimes possibly even behind it. Just as a reminder, here is the image:

That white line is the background - it's not supposed to be there.

When you are doing a render that does not have many faces in front of ZTransparency planes, this is not an issue at all, but when you're talking trees or even city scapes, you have a serious issue on your hands.

The re...

Posted by Marius Oberholster. Posted In : Tips

Speed up renders in Blender

February 1, 2016

Hey all!

Last week, I briefly talked about this topic as part of the latest update on the Esther 6 project - which you can read here. The reason for this post is to particularly focus on this topic and share some engine specific tricks that GOD showed me through personal leading and from a few articles, so let's get into it.

This will be mostly focused on Blender Render, as that is my engine of choice for the time, but I will talk about Cycles Render as well in another post - GOD willing.

Blende...
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Posted by Marius Oberholster. Posted In : Tips

Mesh hair tutorials

January 21, 2016

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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Posted by Marius Oberholster. Posted In : News

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