Category Archives: 3D

Spectacular tentacular abstractular 3D blender image

Posted on February 17, 2008 by Dave C

Well, at least the title was fun. Here’s an abstract image I made today with Blender 3D.

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Blender Cloth Modifier Self Collision

Posted on February 12, 2008 by Dave C

Today, the cloth modifier (due for release with the next version of Blender) had self collision added. I couldn’t possibly resist trying this out for myself, so here’s what I came up with…

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New Blender Undergound Blender Basic Video Tutorial

Posted on February 7, 2008 by Dave C

The long awaited and much anticipated fifth installment of the Blender Basics video tutorials has just been release over at Blender Underground. This edition is all about materials in Blender.

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Blender CLOTH Simulation!

Posted on January 31, 2008 by Dave C

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 →

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Blender Fluid Simulation – Take 2

Posted on January 29, 2008 by Dave C

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 →

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Blender Fluid Simulation

Posted on January 28, 2008 by Dave C

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

Posted on January 21, 2008 by Dave C

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

Posted on January 18, 2008 by Dave C

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

Posted on January 15, 2008 by Dave C

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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Blender Underground

Posted on November 9, 2007 by Dave C

I have a current favourite website. It is Blender Underground. Actually, it’s the Blender Underground forums. Blender is an open-source 3D graphics package (and a lot more). It has a different kind of user-interface that takes quite some getting used … Continue reading →

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