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Blendermama 100

Oana — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 19:51:33 +0000

Welcome to my number 100 post on Blendermama! I have started this blog in 2009 so maybe 100 is not that large a number for the given period. I had first met Blender a long time ago (almost 10 years actually) but the “mama” part was added that year. I have made some stops on [...]

Just talking

Oana — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 13:48:11 +0000

What is THAT? you will ask. Well nothing exactly, I was playing around a bit to unwind after “serious work”. I opened Alchemy, a fun random drawing software I sometimes use for “doodling”. When an interesting shape took form, I saved it as svg, opened it in Inkscape to clean it a bit, then in [...]

Black faces error from camera clipping

Oana — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 13:29:03 +0000

I tripped over a nasty messy stuff on this new project I’m working on. I’m setting up an aerial view of an urban proposal and have some simple geometry with lots of instancing. Here is a simplified wire of the scene: First test render looked like shown above and took me over a precious hour [...]

Remesh modifier

Oana — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 20:30:31 +0000

This was supposed to be my “weekend quick fun render” but instead we made a snowman and other real weekend things so I didn’t get to it until today. It’s not a finished and polished image, just a fun test I spent a couple of hours doing. I had the idea I could use the [...]

Compositing a Graphic look

Oana — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:14:30 +0000

Inspired by some cool tutorials on postporcessing archviz illustration styles, I tried my hand at using Blender’s Compositor for creating this type of image. The original tutorial used Sketchup+Photoshop and this I think would be easy to recreate with Blender+ps or Gimp, but I took the challenge to mix it all in the Compositor. After [...]

Line drawing in Blender

Oana — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:41:03 +0000

Today I just felt like doing something else and the last scene I blended seemed suitable for an orthographic edge render. So I set my camera on orthographic, a clay material in the render layers tab and checked the edge setting on its default value: I used a sun and also edited a bit the [...]

Weekend special – exterior rendering

Oana — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 19:59:35 +0000

Over the weekend I had a little time and suddenly decided to patch up and embellish a simple model I had made some time ago to illustrate a post on the solidify modifier. I had it in the gallery and it was a bit of an eyesore, hope it looks better now. It is not [...]

Precision work in Blender

Oana — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 09:46:08 +0000

Without pretending to be a cad drafting tool, Blender has more precision functions than people usually believe. Everything can be built with the greatest accuracy. I really value this and it was a decisive point when switching to Blender as my full time modelling and visualising tool. I used to model in cad software so [...]

…in between projects

Oana — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 20:03:00 +0000

I have happily finished my current project so I have some time now to finish a nice new post for the “how to” section. I’m even looking up html syntax to make nice links inside the post! I’m showing just a bit of wireframe so you know it was a “dense” week Just needed to [...]

House on the lake – final cut

Oana — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:29:06 +0000

This is what finally happened to the dusk image, I tried to address part of the things pointed out in your comments, like I added an area light with a weird color trying to fake the light reflected from the water, and moved camera and trees a bit to give more depth to the image [...]