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Blender quick tutorial No. 14: Display material colors in the “solid mode” of Blenders 3D viewport
In this video you will learn, how to display a material color of an object, in the “solid mode” of Blenders 3D viewport by using drivers. Tutorial video Click below to watch the tutorial:
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Blender quick tutorial No. 13: Alpha textures with color keying inside Blender
Today I show you how to create a leaf texture, that was taken by a simple smartphone. But we’ll not use a 2D application like Adobe Photoshop, Gimp or Krita! Instead we create the complete texture inside Blenders Compositor! I show you how to do this with just a few nodes and some clicks! Beside…
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Blender quick tutorial No. 12 – How to bake alpha channels
In this video tutorial I show you how to use the baking system in Blender 2.8. Especially in this episode you‘ll see a solution for baking the alpha channel to display transparent textured objects. Alpha channels won’t be calculated automatically in Blender 2.82 or before versions, but I’ll show you a smart trick how to…
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Schulung bei Genese Werbeagentur
Im November 2019 durfte ich ein Blender Training bei der genese Werbeagentur in Magdeburg geben. Das Individual-Training behandelte den Einstieg in Blender 2.8. Dabei haben wir gemeinsam ein Modell gebaut, texturiert und gerendert. Die Teilnehmer haben damit einen ersten Überblick in die 3D Open Source Software erhalten und die Weichen für erste eigene Projekte gestellt.…
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Blender Quick Tutorial No. 10 – Dynamic Mountain/Island Material
In this quick tutorial I show you, how to create a procedural mountain material in Blender. This video is based on my popular Dynamic Mountain tutorial, which can be watched here. Download the .blend file You can download the file here: Tutorial video Watch the tutorial:
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Blender Quick Tutorial No. 9 – Dynamic Mountains
In this small tutorial I show you, how to create dynamic mountains in Blender by using modifiers. Dynamic means: You can displace the ground in realtime, while you’re moving, rotating or scaling the mountain patch. This method is not based on shrinkwrapping, if you may think. My method is using pure texture information and dynamic…
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Blender quick tip No. 8
How to create a leather wrap for a sword grip, the “quick & dirty way” This time it’s more like a quick tip… this video is only 17 minutes long! We keep the sword topic. Learn how to create a leather wrap around a sword grip. This is a quick and dirty way, but it…
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Blender (not a really) quick tip No. 7
Watch how to create a simple sword by using mainly modifiers! OK, again it’s not really a quick tip, but more a small tutorial. So if you are a beginner and have 44 minutes of time to listen my “bad english”, then this is something for you. But even advanced users may find some interesting tips…