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Monthly Archives: January 2008
Blender CLOTH Simulation!
Yes, that’s right. Cloth. Not softbody, physics or fluid. Cloth. The rate at which features are being integrated into the main trunk of Blender development is amazing. When this new version is finally released, Blender users will be like kids … Continue reading
Blender Fluid Simulation – Take 2
Well, as you may have read in the previous post, the first attempt at this animation went a little bit wrong. Well, I’ve done it all over again. I made the fluid a higher resolution (200), changed the anim from … Continue reading
Blender Fluid Simulation
There are an awful lot of fluid simulations (made with Blender) on YouTube. Most of them seem to be following the standard “glob of liquid into a cup” tutorial but there are also a lot of very inventive ones.
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Feathers McGraw
Here’s a little picture I cobbled together this evening in Blender. It’s the jewel-thief penguin from the Wallace and Gromit film “The Wrong Trousers”. One of my favourite films, by the way. Blender is going through some really interesting and … Continue reading
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Playing with Blender’s new particle hair
Here’s the result of a test I did with Blender’s great new particle system. It’s only in the SVN builds at the moment, but it works great. You can comb and cut and groom the hair. Marvelous. I call this … Continue reading
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Music Box Animation
This is an amazing animation created by a friend of mine (I hope he sees me as a friend) using Blender, Yafray and tons of skill. Completely modeled and animated by Menotodokukagiri. I think it is a beautiful piece of … Continue reading
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New comic strip: Bob.
My first comic strip of 2008. If you want to see the others, they’re all on my deviant art account. Bob by ~dodgydavec on deviantART
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Blog feed going to both sites
OK. Things are gradually coming together. I now have the feed from this blog going to dave.bloopdiary.com and thebigdavec.googlepages.com. At the moment, the googlepages site is more complete in style and content. I need to remedy this. Of course, they … Continue reading
Added blog to site front page
Today I managed to sort out (repair) the CSS on my site AND (boy, am I proud of myself) I got my blog feed to appear listed on my front page. Everytime I add an entry to my blog, it … Continue reading
Got a DVD recorder!
“Big deal!” I hear you shout. Well, let me explain. I am the king of gadget geeks in my family (and Sarah’s family). Yet I have only just bought a DVD recorder. I have DVD burners for computers but I … Continue reading
