Video Tutorial — Clothing Compositing!

This is a fifty minute tutorial on using the Blender compositor to sculpt multiple outfits for the same character.

Victoria Amazonica — The Giant Water Lily!

A video render of the largest water lily on the planet.

In-Game Animations, Part Two

Preview of in-game animations of characters in “Strings”

Composited Walk Cycle

An example of how multiple characters can be rigged with different outfits following the same armature deformation.

Argos, First Demo

The preview of Argos, the ship’s artificial intelligence and general watcher.

A Case Against using Blender Physics

…Not that it’s always a bad thing. Oftentimes it’s great. But, for the tasks we have in mind, it’s usually going to have more trouble than it sounds. This has nothing to do with how well designed it is, it has to do with the fact that the artist is now partially in the audience,

Animating Sculpted Meshes in Blender

Or, How to Apply One of Those Weird Modifiers Which You Never Thought You Would Use Introduction (Which may be Safely Skipped) Blender is an extraordinarily complex and beautiful piece of software, and I’m not sure what anyone else would be expecting of it. Of course it is. Aside from all the passion of Ton

Keeping a Texture Aligned on a Sculpt-able Mesh

Learn a method to align a texture, or other material feature, on a mesh without UV-unwrapping.

Thank You for your Impassioned Response!

High time, I think, that I dropped an update on here. The reception for my first two books this year has been overwhelming—I’m feeling a lot of gratitude. It’s also helpful for morale, to see so many people grabbing them off the digital shelf. Writing a proper book is not a small task; and for

Webcam Sampling

Learn how to sample texture data from your webcam in The Warrior-Poet’s Guide to Blender 2.80