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Flag tutorial

July 12, 2012
I know there are a few out there that show you how to do a flag with procedural textures, but I wanted to take it a step further and do the whole flag (including the side with the rope and two holes) with procedural textures only. And this is the result:


I know as a South African citizen you may be thinking "Why in the world would he make a French flag instead", because I am learning French and it was the first flag that came to mind. After showing my brother this render, he asked me why I didn't do the SA flag, so he sort of issued me with a challenge to make it using procedural textures and although I didn't use the official shades of the colors, I did get the shape fairly close using only the Blend texture (and of course a whole bunch of transform nodes):


I plan to include both flags in the final tutorial, but the final results will vary as it is a step-by-step redo of the whole thing and this time it'll hopefully be much much better (^^,).

Oh, before I forget, these two have no cloth or soft-body simulations applied. Which is the goal of the tutorial. I found that whenever I try to do even a low poly cloth, that Blender freezes, because the info is too much to calculate (with forcefields, not so much without) and this is a way to overcome that obstacle for people who don't have the latest and the greatest (^^,).

Have a great day everyone!!!

Thank YOU!!!!!!!
 

3D Portfolio section!

July 6, 2012
I recently applied for a job and needed a proper portfolio of my 3D work (and I made sure I added only what HE wanted in) and you can check it out using the navigation at the top (far right).

Obviously, they will not remain the best works and will be replaced by other pieces as I learn and grow in skill, but I like the work so far!

Hope you enjoy scrolling through it!

Oh, about the feature pic. I did a comparison a while back between Cycles Render and Blender Render for the book I'm still workin...
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Wood tutorial almost finished!

July 5, 2012
Hey peoples!!

Thankfully I had the opportunity to work on the book again this week and managed to finish writing it and finishing the cover as well. It still needs to be checked and maybe more info added, but it's one tutorial away from the Blender Render section being completed!!! As with the other tutorials having a similar cover, this is completely procedural textures (using nodes and directly applied).

So without further ado, here is the cover of the wood tutorial:


It took quite a bit of wor...
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Blender Guru Competition Entry - Photo Realism

June 26, 2012
What a piece of work!! I really pushed my PC for the max on this one. It was tough to say the least.

For about 3 weeks, I worked on almost this project only (aside from helping my parents out and my brother with their design requests). It was a huge undertaking to model so many things for just one scene, but I learned a lot from Andrew's tutorials and while writing the book on procedural textures (still in progress), HE really showed me a lot of things I could do to get even very complex textu...
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