IanHubert

Live Chat this Sunday, and a question for you!

Hey hey!! We've been doing the Patreon for over a year! Thank you so much for that!! :D I think that allows me a little indulgent meta-post to touch base with you all!

TLDR: 2021-04-16 08:47:26 +0000 UTC View Post

Tutorial: Photoscanning Greebles from Real Life (Blender, RealityCapture)

Mostly just talking photoscanning here, but hopefully useful for folks who haven't played around with it much! Super useful for making quick textural stuff.

I'm using Reality Capture (much m...

Tutorial: Making Self-Randomizing Assets (posters/lights)

Woo! Some of this I touched on before (over a year ago?), but never about this specifically. This is one of the more useful things I've learned in the past year: how to select from various image te...

Asset: v.1 Self-Generating Car (The AutoAuto)

Okay so- I'm calling this version 1. I had bigger plans for it, but all of them ended up being complex, and this would have turned into a bigger project than I meant for right now (the sound team h...

Tutorial/BTS: Digital Extensions - making boring places more interesting!

Oh man I'm glad I redid the final part of this video. The first version was fine (click here if you want to watch it), but the n...

Asset: Antenna Kit

Glad to f...

Tutorial: Digital Costume Enhancement (Tracking, easy/complex)

Wanted to jump over to the VFX side of things for a second! Motion tracking costume enhancements. And I apologize; I hadn't realized my microphone was more pointed towards my computer fan than my f...

Asset/Experience: Post-Party Simulator

The past year has been hard on everyone, and I keep finding myself missing friends, gatherings, and par...

Making a Flying Vehicle pt. 2 - Refining/Texturing

Continued from part 1 

As I mention (probably repeatedly) in the video, I don't get *super...

Initial Blender VR Experiments

Alright so I'm doing that thing where I have like 5 different projects going at once, and none of them have been helped by the fact that I effectively had no internet this past week (sorry I've bee...

Making a Flying Vehicle pt. 1 - Design/Blocking

Continued in Pt. 2

First part of a short series (no idea how many parts it'll be- probably jus...

Cat Sculpting when you're bad at Sculpting and Cats.

I made the opening video this morning using the same techniques as the Snowman video :)

Look I...

Completing Big Shots

Not the most focused video in the world, maybe, but I tried to talk about some parts of the process that I usually skirt around!

If you DID want a more technically oriented step-by-step vide...

Tutorial/Asset: Moss!

[Download below]

First are foremost- there's probably a better way to do moss! Some wild displacement/volumetric solution. This is just the best way I've found so far!

I have ten baz...

Making a Little Barbershop with Various Signage

Just a little Sunday Night fun! Oh wait it's Monday. Funday?
Adding a bit of life to a still background! The end result isn't particularly wild, but I tried to stick a bunch of differe...

Asset: Animated Crowd

Should be super self-explanatory, but I also included a quick how-to-use video up above (although for more information I recommend watching the video I 2021-01-17 01:37:47 +0000 UTC View Post

Large Scale Crowd Sims with Boids

The animated crowd pack I'm using here'll be uploaded for the tier 7 folks in a sec! (just the photoscanned low-poly crowd with some shape keys. Never really intended to use them this way :P)
2021-01-16 22:36:43 +0000 UTC View Post

Asset: Rack of Magazines

Well- mostly just magazine covers, which'll hopefully still get the job done. And before you ask- h'oh yeah this is totally because of that cyberpunk game, cause you can run around and see...

Making Bird Swarms (and Easy Controllable Crowds!)

Hello! This is in that zone between a tutorial and a breakdown. A Tutdown, if you will.

Covers some ground the tier 7 folks have seen, but hopefully not too boring.

Also- this start...

Asset: Flock of Crows!

EDIT: Figured out why the birds wouldn't change altitude! Something to do with the "minimum speed" slider (who knows why). Changed that from being maxed out, and they can fly up and down again. You...

Tutorial: Quick Railing Tip

Just a quickie!

RAILINGS! I hate 'em! I've modeled so many railings! But lately I've tried to embrace the railing. While still getting it finished as quickly as friggin' possible.

B...

Tutorialish: Quick Christmas Fake-O Stop-O-Rama

This is my favorite lazy way to make animations- Auto Key Framing synced with an MP3 in the video editor!

Also- instead of AV Sync in the pulldown, maybe use Frame Dropping? Didn't really m...

Double Monitor Monday!

So this is two videos in one, 1.) modeling a gizmo, then 2.) creating content for a gizmo's monitor (followed by modeling a new gizmo).

It seems long to me, but a lot of you have said you en...

Stir Fry Physics

H'Alright! We've got stirring! We've got frying! It's... kinda a stir fry??

As I say in the video, 95% of making physics-based projects is tweaking the settings, recalculating, then doing it...

Asset: Statues

Eh, call em "statues" or "sloppy photoscans", take your pick- I think they're fun though. Imagine combi...

Asset: Cockpit/Controls

DOWNLOAD LINKS BELOW

SO this isn't the MOST organized file ever (it's made of pieces I made without ever really considering the fact that I might be sharing them one day, so texture names and...

Making Statues

Not covering all that much new in this one (the idea's exactly what it looks, "clean up a photoscan and give it a marbley texture"), but it's so fun I had to make a video about it!

Also, as ...

Scene Breakdown + Creating B-Roll from Scratch

(I have chapter markers if you click through to the YouTube video proper)

SO! I had a bazillion things I meant to be doing this week, but instead I got distracted working on a scene for Ep. ...

Dynamo Scene: "You Wanna Know My Plan?"

I wrote the above scene for Dynamo over five years ago (and filmed it in... 2015? Eeesh Time flies!), mostly as a writing exercise. I'd gotten kind of worried that I was treating CG as a crutch (ca...

Tutorial: intro to Shapekeys (pigeons/jet nozzles)

OKAY SO YES- most of you probably already know all about shapekeys. But they are so fun and powerful that I wanted to make totally sure! Imagine your childlike joy upon learning of shapekeys for th...