Last update : april 2007, for blender 2.43 - it really needs to be updated as many things changed. this tutorial will teach you how to make a little octopus, using the "subsurf" functionality. this functionality allows you to create smooth/organic shapes rather easily. if you don't know the subsurf function, the first part of the tutorial may seems

My latest silly joke. i'm not really pro- or anti- emacs, i'm only pro- ridiculous software-related jokes.done with gimp2.7 (that is, git version from 3 weeks ago, something like that).and yes, there's 12 fingers. *that* is the joke. (people who never read emacs/vim argument won't understand. sorry.) btw, i decided to move most of the "tattoo desig

Notice: this tutorial really needs to be updated, i'll try to do it asap. part 1: the snowman part 2: the fir trees part 3: the scene setting and render 21. let's start with the camera. select it, and try to point it at the snowman (with g and r), so that you can see the snowman and also the forest. you can go in the camera view (0) to help you (yo

--- post moved to this blog. --- some kind of triskele designs done this weekend. draft on paper, then vectorisation with inkscape. des sortes de motifs de triskels faits ce we. brouillon sur papier, puis vectorisation avec inkscape. and a hand drawn triple triquetra (well, actually, it's one triquetra interlaced with a double one), because it turn

Giving a try at illustration friday's topic. this week topic is cocoon. i like the idea of being given a new topic each week. also, i wonder if i should stay on this blog platfom: much more ads than everywhere else, ugly compression if i upload directly an image there, no image taller/wider than 800px, and an interface for new messages that is not

Notice: this tutorial really needs to be updated, i'll try to do it asap. part 1: the snowman part 2: the fir trees part 3: the scene setting and render 2. the fir trees 10. we're going to make the fir trees on a different layer than the layer of the snowman. layers ? yes, the 20 little squares are the layer buttons. as far as i know, you can't hav

Ce tutoriel va montrer comment créer rapidement des rayures sur une image ( comme par exemple, l'image à droite ici, avec les fines rayures diagonales). la plupart des tutoriels existants nécéssitent l'utilisation d'un motif (pattern) à rayures, mais ici, nous allons utiliser des dégradés. cette méthode permet de créer rapidement des rayur

Ce tutorial va vous apprendre comment créer une petite pieuvre, en utilisant la fonction "subsurf". cette fonctionnalité permet de créer des formes lisses/organiques assez facilement. ce tutorial va aussi permettre de voir comment assigner plusieurs matériaux à un même objet. j'utilise encore la même notation que lors des tutoriaux précéde

This tutorial will show you how to create quickly some stripes to add to an image (for example, the image on the right here with some thin diagonal stripes) most tutorials depends on the use of a pattern with stripes, but here we will use gradients.the gradient method allows to create quickly stripes of any size and any angle. the drawback is that,

Last update : april 2007, for blender 2.43 - it really needs to be updated as many things changed. beginning the modeling adding the subsurfs 2. adding the subsurfs (or subdivision surfaces) 11. using subsurf is very simple : in the edition menu (f9) click on "add modifier" (on the "modifier" tab) and choose "subsurf". as you can see now, a rounded