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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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The CG Boost challenge – I’m one of the judges!
Great news! As you maybe know CG Boost is one of the most excitiest tutorial platforms for Blender artists. Beside great trainings CG Boost is organizing the CG Boost Art Challenge, a monthly event. The CG Boost challenge offers every artist (Not Blender users only) a way to present her or his cg skills to…
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Darktrooper 2013
The story A small escape pod makes its way through space. Just escaped a battle in which his mother ship, the “Arc Hammer” was destroyed. Inside a high-ranking officer with secret documents for a combat suit that will change the future of the galaxy. On the documents the letters “Darktrooper 2013″… Background Mid of 2019…
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PBR materials based on Substance textures
I’ve prepared an example, how to setup a PBR material in Blender, that is based on bitmap textures exported by tools like Substance Painter, 3DCoat, MARI and other texture generating tools. PBR material setup example in Blender Here is a basic PBR setup, if you are using Substance Painter (or similar) bitmap textures in Blender.…
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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…
