[This is written specifically for Blender's "Cycles" path tracer, but I assume a lot of the same logic applies to other path tracers? Also, I mention below, but if you have a render with crazy fire...
2020-08-08 22:32:07 +0000 UTC
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(Right click, save as- preview below)
Road Textures
This is a simple technique, I just also get distr...
2020-08-04 09:39:48 +0000 UTC
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Low poly crowd figures as a dime a dozen online, but almost none of them seem to have any textures??
2020-08-02 08:50:44 +0000 UTC
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Jet Engine asset available below if anyone wants!
Here we go again! Sorry to everyone who got a notification email about this post last night- I forgot that deleting the post would create
2020-08-01 01:38:49 +0000 UTC
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Okay! Sorry I've been quiet the past while! I was forcing myself to wrap up this guy! Only took me 6 months, but here we go!
I ended up not including a ton of things I probably could have, ...
2020-07-27 21:31:12 +0000 UTC
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I guess the title shouldn't necessarily be "using fSpy", since the fSpy part is only like 4% of the total process, and the rest is in Blender, but it's a great way to get the camera aligned to a ph...
2020-07-24 10:30:37 +0000 UTC
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Just some stuff I've been thinking about! I have all these shoots I want to do, but we're still probably a ways off until I can do a proper one (Covid-wise).
I dig the potential, though. In...
2020-07-21 07:06:02 +0000 UTC
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Previous Parts:
Part 1: tracking/keying/masking/setup
2020-07-19 01:23:08 +0000 UTC
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Woooo!!!! I wish I had this thing months ago!
Here's a link to the free 2020-07-16 23:00:22 +0000 UTC
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This is one of my favorite types of modeling, tons of extruding and insetting!
Maybe not technically a tutorial, since it's just me talking as I do stuff- but maybe some useful tips in ther...
2020-07-12 00:34:27 +0000 UTC
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Zachary asked if I could upload this, so here we go! A lot of it you already have (pipes-n-burgers), bu...
2020-07-11 09:03:35 +0000 UTC
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Hey hey!! I've been working on a bunch of stuff, but gotten a little behind on posting about it here. Mostly working on editing for the Dynamo Dream episode. I'm SO close to picture lock, and once ...
2020-07-10 10:31:38 +0000 UTC
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[edit: cleaned up a bunch of the models since upload (weird little geometry bumps and such). Super easy to do with the sculpt tool!]
Woooo! You guys would not believe how much time ...
2020-07-08 08:38:28 +0000 UTC
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So I make lots of cyberpunk work, and maybe you join the patreon like "yeah alright let's cyber-go<...
2020-07-03 03:24:41 +0000 UTC
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Hey! I wanted to share a bit of what you all are helping support by being here!! Pardon all the messes!
2020-07-01 04:53:20 +0000 UTC
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At some point I'd love to make an Actual Tutorial with some techniques I find the most helpful (I have a project in mind that could be pretty fun, I think), but until then here's a timelapse of put...
2020-06-29 07:39:49 +0000 UTC
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So not really a tut- just a screencapture, really, but this is one of those things I've been thinking about for like literally 5-10 years and finally decided to try- worked out better than I expect...
2020-06-26 02:51:58 +0000 UTC
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First of all- thank you so much to everyone for your comments on my previous post! I'm afraid ...
2020-06-24 10:52:14 +0000 UTC
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Posted a new lazy tutorial! Nightmare Men! I forgot how much fun making those tuts were. In most of the lazy tuts I'm trying to ...
2020-06-24 01:19:39 +0000 UTC
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Whew! These were hard work!
Very excited to share this one with you guys! It's the result of the first stage of the backyard photoscanning shenanigans. Learned a ton doing these guys, although ...
2020-06-20 09:31:14 +0000 UTC
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Hah! So- making tutorials for physics-based stuff is always a little daunting because it invariably comes down to "just tweak stuff till it looks right for your specific situation".
With th...
2020-06-19 07:56:45 +0000 UTC
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This is just a quick tutorial on how to start creating a library of real-life camera movements, so you don't have to emulate stuff with noise modifiers. Maybe useful to someone out there!
ALSO y...
2020-06-14 10:43:51 +0000 UTC
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Hey! So- I just uploaded 10 of these guys to the tier 7 folks, but I wanted to share a couple here, too, just because I think they turned out pretty gorgeous.
I'm excited to stick the...
2020-06-11 00:53:18 +0000 UTC
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Man, compared to scanning people, small inanimate objects are a piece of cake, haha!
So- I've got...
2020-06-11 00:38:37 +0000 UTC
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Alright! Took me a sec to get it up here (had to figure some stuff out), but I think it's all ready! &n...
2020-06-08 08:10:29 +0000 UTC
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This video talks about photoscanning, and a little sculpting, and all that fun stuff! Not really a tutorial, just thought it might be fun to document some burger-scanning shenanigans.
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2020-06-07 01:08:12 +0000 UTC
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So after a particularly aggressive bout of social distancing, Kaitlin and I finally hung out with some friends for a weekend. It felt great! Nate and Selena have been good friends for a while now (...
2020-06-02 07:11:26 +0000 UTC
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Hey hey!! :D
So I took like 3000 pictures around my yard yesterday (and a few out in the mounta...
2020-05-29 08:18:17 +0000 UTC
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So- this is admittedly a little thing, and I wasn't so sure about this bit when I first modeled it, but...
2020-05-27 22:49:07 +0000 UTC
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