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Another peek

January 8, 2013
Hey all!

I've been working on another part of the book this morning and made this as a demo:


This part is all about art and being creative with procedural textures. So that is a yes, all three are made using procedural textures (^^,)! I like to call this set: Growth.

Remember, you can also go more literal on it:

This set is simply called: Stages (looks like some sort of planet or star in it's different stages of it's life cycle).

Anyway, I am not typically a fan of abstract, but since the photo-realism competition's art work and that of the dream holiday, I have been pondering this use; very cool, imo.

Have a great one! Hope y'all are looking forward to the book as much as I am!!

Thank YOU!!!!!!!
 

Particles+Collision vs BulletPhysics

January 4, 2013
Hey all!

Today was a bit of experimenting. The game engine has what is called Bullet Physics. It is what it needs to tell the software that this object is heavier than this one, this one is touching ground here, this is in the air over there, etc.
Now, this system is far more accurate and versatile than what is currently physics options in Blender Render or Cycles Render mode. There, the closest you get is the soft body simulator.

So, today, I wanted to find out how to bake a bullet physics anim...
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Just something fun

January 3, 2013
Hey all!

Was a bit under the weather today, so I took the day to just make something random and here it is:



I played around with the remesh modifier. One of it's features is the ability to make a mesh pixelated (or block) in appearance. Everything in the scene has been made that way, except the lighting, because this is Blender Render, not Cycles. The composition originally left a bit to be desired, so I quickly changed it. This is how it was:



I think this project would make a cool wallpaper, bu...
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Hello from 2013!

January 1, 2013
Hey all!

Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas time and a great new year. I wish everyone a very blessed and happy 2013 and even beyond!

Getting back to work has not been hard. In fact, thankfully, I am almost finished with another part of the book. I am really hoping to get it done before my birthday this year. That would rock!!

As a sneak peak, I screen-capped this little low-poly log I made as decor for the section mentioned above. While I don't explain in the book how to make the log (I lea...
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