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Blender Screw Modifier Tutorial

Gleb Alexandrov — Tue, 13 May 2014 16:03:29 +0000

How to model a small interior scene using only one spline and the Screw Modifier? Watch this Blender Screw Modifier Tutorial to learn some tricks.

Blender Screw Modifier Tips

Press R twice and rotate the spline chaotically to experiment with the shapes. You’ll be surprised about the shapes that this modifier could generate, I promise.

Go Beyond 360 Degrees and Combine it with the Wireframe Modifier

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Particle Textures in Blender

Gleb Alexandrov — Mon, 23 Dec 2013 16:40:00 +0000

How to use Particle Textures in Blender to distribute objects by pattern? In this video, we’ll use it to control distribution.

Blender Particle Textures Tips

Particle textures can be used to create an interesting distribution pattern and get rid of uniformity.

This is especially bombastic when making nature renders. Noise is the key to natural looking grass, stones, trees.

Of course, there are a lot of other situations when particle textures will come in handy. Like when we need to fill some surface with objects (to form a word, for example).

Compare this two pictures to get the difference between uniform and chaotic system.

Uniform particle distribution

Distribution by Procedural Noise

Take your time and test various noises

If you have a free hour or so, click through the noises and see what it has to offer. Chances are, you will get excited with possibilities.

This value of knowing how various noises work is high in CG. Good luck!

Watch How to Create Stones in Blender

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Retopology: creating stones #2

Gleb Alexandrov — Wed, 11 Dec 2013 15:14:00 +0000

Automatic retopology in Blender? In this video, we’ll briefly outline 5 methods of semi-automatic retopology.

Feel free to leave a comment, ask a question and share!

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Bisect Tutorial: Creating Stones in Blender #1

Gleb Alexandrov — Tue, 26 Nov 2013 15:20:00 +0000

In this video, we’ll explore how to create a stone using Bisect – the new tool in Blender 2.69. It reminds me of Zbrush clip brushes – one stroke to cut the sphere in half and so on. The drawback of this method is geometry, filled with n-gons. Though, it is usable.

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Zbrush Way of Sculpting Stones in Blender

If you don’t want to bother with Bisect, you may activate Dynamic Topology and use the Scrape brush to sculpt the hell out of the stone. It’s a Zbrush-style approach, if you wish.

In the part 2, we quickly retopologize the stone.

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Wireframe over mesh (Display tools)

Gleb Alexandrov — Fri, 08 Nov 2013 15:54:00 +0000

How to display wireframe over mesh in Blender? In this quick video, we’ll achieve this display mode with the help of Display Tools addon (written by Jordi Vall-llovera Medina “JordiArt”).

For sure, this handy function is the easiest way right now to enable wire-over-mesh display mode in Blender (especially if somebody came from 3ds max, where have used to clicking F4 all the time).

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