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Animating Lights in Blender

Aidy Burrows — Sun, 03 Jan 2021 17:08:42 +0000

In this free Blender tutorial from our upcoming new lighting course let’s take a look at animating the lights themselves. There are a lot more ways to animate lighting that first meets the eye, using a simple subway scene lets shine a light on the subject! [sorry bad pun I know.]

2 different ways for animating switching a light on and off
Having some fun with autokeyframing
Animating light flicker
Animating with Drivers
Creating custom properties
Synchronizing the lamp objects with the emissive materials

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Making Corners

Aidy Burrows — Wed, 27 May 2020 12:34:19 +0000

Our latest video course for Blender: 50 Modeling Issues from Hell has just been released! Here’s a free sample chapter on making corners.

Knife intersection and how it can be messy
TinyCAD addon
Snap utilities line addon
Mirror bisecting with an empty
Subtitles Included

Get the full ’50 Modeling Issues from Hell’ course on Blender Market

Get the full ’50 Modeling Issues from Hell’ course on Gumroad

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Lofting Between Shapes

Aidy Burrows — Mon, 18 May 2020 14:48:02 +0000

Our latest video course for Blender: 50 Modeling Issues from Hell has just been released! Here’s a free sample chapter on how to loft between shapes.

Lofting through simple shapes
Quick and easy Boolean cleanup
Lofting from 1 shape to 2
Subtitles Included
This video is brought to you by the number 32!

Get the full ’50 Modeling Issues from Hell’ course on Blender Market

Get the full ’50 Modeling Issues from Hell’ course on Gumroad

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Blender 2.8 Tutorial | Retopology

Aidy Burrows — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 12:02:58 +0000

A new Blender 2.8 feature is the Poly build tool. These are early Blender steps in producing a more complete native retopology environment. Let’s take a look and explore some retopology options!

How to setup for Retopology
The Poly build Tool
General retopology workflow
Extra apps & addon options

Extra Retopo App/Addon Options

CG Cookie’s Retopoflow – Amazing Blender Addon

TopoGun – Dedicated software for retopology

ZBrush – Commercial 3D App, incredible for sculpting also contains good retopology options

3D Coat – Commercial 3D Application that has some cool retopology tools

After this video was produced another Add-on good for retopology came to our attention – The PolyQuilt Addon. A nice quick overview can be found here. Also more info can be found on the Blender Artist page.

2.8 HSM Update Youtube playlist

Hard-surface modeling on BlenderMarket (2.79 full course and 2.80+ update)

Hard-surface modeling on Gumroad (2.79 full course and 2.80+ update)

Gleb | Twitter

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Blender 2.8 Tutorial | Remeshing Tools

Aidy Burrows — Fri, 24 Jan 2020 14:31:37 +0000

Blender 2.81 now ships with two new ways to remesh your models, a fast one based on volumes and another one preserving quads. Let’s take a look at how they might affect our hard surface workflow!

Why Remesh? How? and Where?
Learn the main differences between them.
All the Voxel options
All the Quadriflow options
The old skool Remesh Modifier
Additional Apps and Addons to take it further

2.8 HSM Update Youtube playlist

Hard-surface modeling on BlenderMarket (2.79 full course and 2.80+ update)

Hard-surface modeling on Gumroad (2.79 full course and 2.80+ update)

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Blender 2.8 Modeling | Fundamentals Crash Course

Aidy Burrows — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 17:15:27 +0000

How do you know what level of modeling skill you’re at? Have you mastered the modeling fundamentals? What does that actually mean? Here is a 25 minute crash course into what we might call the standard modeling toolkit. If you know all this stuff and if I was in a position to I’d be handing out 3D Modeling fundamental diplomas left, right and center! (Or should that be -x, x and y!)

ENEMY No. 1! When it comes to Modeling problems and how to fix it
Modeling fundamentals complete list
Object Level modeling fundamentals
Edit Level modeling fundamentals
Essential shading tips for modeling
Essential selection tips for modeling

2.8 HSM Update Youtube playlist

Hard-surface modeling on BlenderMarket (2.79 full course and 2.80+ update)

Hard-surface modeling on Gumroad (2.79 full course and 2.80+ update)

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Blender 2.8 SETUP | What we change and why

Aidy Burrows — Tue, 31 Dec 2019 13:20:48 +0000

Even though we try to change nothing to make it as easy to follow along, that wouldn’t really be teaching a very good workflow in many cases. So! Here are some of the changes we often make to default Blender and why we make them.

By default Blender is setup for the average user but while that causes the least amount of changes that need to be made, the perfectly ‘average’ user doesn’t really exist. Blender is so versatile it couldn’t possibly really cater for everyone by default.