No hassle. Just the essentials.

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How to Use?

• Open the .blend file
• Load your EXR
• Tweak the nodes for a quick color-grading pass.

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Let us know what you’d want to see improved in this setup!

And check the Blender to Resolve freemium course if you want to see an alternative workflow – in DaVinci Resolve.

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Has it ever happened to you? That anxious feeling when you start to model something, is it the RIGHT way?

There’s a lot of different ways to consider what the RIGHT or TRUE way actually is.

• Is it the fastest method?
• The easiest method?
• How much does it allow you to iterate on the design?
• Is it Non-destructive/destructive?
• Something new that you want to practice?
• Is it creating way too many polygons?
• Is it even fun? Don’t forget the fun! Maybe you want an enjoyable method to use!

If the modeling method ticks all of those boxes then perhaps you have actually really found the PERFECT way to model something! Usually though it’s some combination of easy/fast/efficient etc.

In the tutorial we’ll be speeding through all of these options :

• Extrude
• Bridge
• Spin
• Torus & Boolean
• Curve
• Skin
• Roundifier
• Curves & Mesh
• A massive can of highly impressive worms

And if you think we’ve missed an important method please let us know! Even something this simple reveals itself to be surprisingly deep in potential.

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• 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

Aidy | Twitter

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• 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)

Socials:

Gleb | Youtube

Aidy | Youtube

Gleb | Twitter

Aidy | Twitter

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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)

Socials:

Gleb | Youtube

Aidy | Youtube

Gleb | Twitter

Aidy | Twitter

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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.

• In a rush? There’s a 2 minute quick runthrough of all changes at the start
• GPU vs CPU vs CPU+GPU (See image below)
• What Addon’s we tend to have always enabled.
• Workbench settings
• And more!

Conclusion of render tests is that for the CPU 64 was best, for GPU 256 was best. AND! CPU & GPU together at 64 were shown to be fastest overall.

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)

Socials:

Gleb | Youtube

Aidy | Youtube

Gleb | Twitter

Aidy | Twitter

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• What changed?
• Where things moved?
• How to use the new stuff?

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)

Socials:

Gleb | Youtube

Aidy | Youtube

Gleb | Twitter

Aidy | Twitter

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Attribution Requirement in a ‘Free’ License: Why It Spoils The Fun?

Pixabay never requires attribution, but some other community-driven resources don’t provide pure CC 0 license.

To compare the licensing options on different free images resources, check 7 Cool Websites with Free Images and Textures.

Now I want to share some thoughts about it.

Imagine a pretty common situation in a daily 3d production: you need a bunch of textures. Chances are, some of them will be used to texture a trash can, that covers the screen area of 15×15 pixels. Or to serve as a layer #101 in some obscure material. Nevertheless, for each and every image that requires attribution you would need to go through cumbersome process of linking to the license page, mentioning if changes were made, etc.

No fun at all, if you ask me.

And NOW imagine a matte painting with crazy amount of layers. As for me, the need to make a correct attribution for 768 images sends chills down the spine!

And what is the point of permissive license, if in a real world production it cripples creativity as much as ‘all rights reserved’ license?

Returning to Pixabay: on this resource, no attribution is required ever. Still, you may credit the author of the image (and even but her a cappuccino!)  but you are not enforced to do so. It’s a huge difference.

Jump in the Boat and Share Something on Pixabay!

Or just make a photo with you, holding this poster, or something

In my point of view, the real free images sharing resource should work just like Pixabay does. And for that reason I want to encourage you to share something on Pixabay.

The view from your window. Your cat. Your smile, after all.

Now, If I had to make a statement regarding image licensing, I would have said something like this:

F#ck restrictive licenses, long live Pixabay.

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 However the meanings of the ‘free’ vary on these resources, so let’s get ourselves covered and see if we actually need to pay the price for the free images.

To be efficient means to be fluent. This is especially true for CG artists. How often do you google for some texture or image, perfect fit for your 3d scene – only to be crushed by the restrictive license? This thing hinders creative flow like nothing else, so what can we do to avoid it?

1. Pixabay

http://pixabay.com/

The friendliest license out there. Creative Commons CC0 – that means that we’re absolutely free to do whatever we want with the images (to the extent possible under law, of course). Modify, use in the scrapbooking, pack in the game, send it over to your best friend or broadcast on Youtube channel.

[icon icon=”check” size=”3x”] Here we have ‘free’ as in ‘freedom’!

However, it’s hard to find certain types of textures yet. I tried to search for ‘metal texture’ and got only 1 page of variants. On the other hand, had searched for ‘the road’ and got 43 pages!

There is a nice feature to reward the uploaders with a coffee, and I want to encourage you to keep this folks caffeinated. So they can continue uploading the best free content.

License: Attribution not required, but appreciated. Absolutely free images and textures.

 2. Image After

http://imageafter.com/

Another great resource in terms of license. We can modify, redistribute as a part of printed work and use in the commercial projects. One thing that we can’t do is to resell the images on the competing resource. No surprises here, I guess.

License: Free for personal or commercial use, no hidden obstacles.

3. FreeImages (formerly SXC.hu)

http://www.freeimages.com/

Slightly more restrictive licensing terms, but still the pictures can be used for free in many cases (related to digital distribution) such as:

in magazines, books, dvd-covers, on websites and broadcast film and video.

However, you may want to ask the permission from the photographer if you intend to use it in the website template or create some mass produced item.

License: Free for personal or commercial use, with some restrictions.

4. Flickr

https://www.flickr.com/

No doubt, Flickr gathered very talented people and has one of the sexiest photo collections out there. But there is one little thing that sometimes stops me from downloading. While technically we can filter the content by Creative Commons license, it precisely means Attribution 2.0 Generic type of license.

[infobox icon=”info”]And the main feature of this particular agreement is that we must give appropriate credit and indicate if changes were made.[/infobox]

If you are okay with it, Flickr is fantastic.

Used under CC BY 2.0

Stone texture by Tomi Knuutila

Used under CC BY 2.0

License: There are free photos, but attribution required.

6. CgTextures

http://cgtextures.com

Despite the paid subscription (non obligatory, but 15 megabytes a day is never enough) CgTextures license is quite permissive to make us, texture geeks happy. The main feature that I feel very excited about is that all textures can be used for free, even for commercial purposes.

License: Free to use in the projects (no reselling and redistribution).

7. cc Search Free Images

http://search.creativecommons.org/

Not exactly the source of the images, but could be the starting place for any Creative Commons related search.

Basically it’s a system which utilizes search capabilities of other services like Google, Fotopedia, Wikimedia Commons in a clever way. It automatically filters the content to match the criteria of ‘free’ and ‘modifiable’.

Very convenient to have all things in 1 place.

I hope you’ve enjoyed this quick tip. Feel free to share your favorite free image & texture sites.

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