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How to separate/mix alphas to control shadows in the Node Editor in Blender 2.78c

2017-03-07T13:55:00.003-06:00

Made in blender 2.78c
By Salvador García Luque

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Welcome back!

Now I present you a solution to a tiny problem that has been happening to me since Blender has composite nodes. That problem is separate the shadow that a character casts through composite nodes to later render everything in an image.

The problem comes from the fact that the shadow is a product of the lights when they are obstructed by an object, ending this obstruction on another object and not an object itself. When is spoken of separate an object with alpha this problem never shows up. But, when is wanted to work with the shadow... ¡Ooooh boy!¡We have a situation!

To be able to work with the shadow separately and later add it to the rest of the image, you have to follow a certain process. Process by which I'll guide you through in this tutorial.

First, prepare the layer 1 with your character and all the lights, including one that cast shadows, that commonly is the main lamp. These lamps should have the This Layer Option Active. In the Properties window, in the Render block, under the Layers tab, add a new Render Layer and under the Layer section activate only the layer 1, like in the image. I named it monkey, Also, in the Passes section assure that the following options are activated:

Combined

Color

Diffuse

Specular

Shadow

Ambient Occlusion (AO)

In the 3D view's layer 2, create a plane under the monkey. To this plane add a material which I have called shadowMat. Activate the Z tranparency and set the Alpha slider to whatever you prefer, I left it in 0.500. In the Shadow tab of the material, activate Shadows Only and deactivate Cast Buffer Shadows.

This way the clarity and transparency are controlled by the material's alpha slider.

Put the plane in the 3D view's second layer. Also, select the lamp that has the shadow options active and put it in the layer 2 as well. To do it press M and select the layer 1 and then press and hold shift and select the layer 2 in the pop out menu. Is important that this lamp, in the lamp options, have deactivated This Layer Only.

In the Render layers, create another layer for the shadow. And leave in the layer section the second layer active only.

Also, in the Passes section, assure that the following options are activated:

Combined

Ambient Occlusion (AO)

Create a third Render Layer targeted for the image's background and floor that, in this case, is in the same scene. The background consist of a plane the same size of the other plane, tough they don't really have to match.. In the case that the background are images, the background is added until we are working in the Node Editor. To this Render layer set the layer section to the third one, where my background and floor are.

Also, in the Passes section, assure that the following options are activated:

Combined

Mist

Color

Diffuse

Ambient Occlusion (AO)

Remember to have all 3 layers active in the 3D view before going to the Nodes Editor.

Now we go to the Nodes Editor window. Add 3 Render Layers. One for the character, another for the shadow and the last one for the background and floor.

To add glares to the character put a ColorRamp, which you should adjust as you please. Connect its input to the Render Layers' Specular Output of the character. After that, add a Glare connected to the ColorRamp's Output.

Configure the Glare like this:

Fog Glow

Medium

Mix: 0.500

Theshold: 0.0

Size: 8

Duplicate the Glare and also connect it to the Specular Output of the character's Render Layers. Configure it this way:

Streaks

Medium

Iterations: 3

Color Modulation: 0.322

Mix: 0.700

Threshold: 0.030

Streaks: 2

Angle Offset: 90°

Fade: 0.900

Add a Mix node. And set it to Add with the first Glare connected to the upper Image input, and the second Glare to the lower. the factor is set to 1.500.

Connected to the Mix's output is a RGB Curves. Only modify C (the color) to brighten the glares, like is shown in the image.

For the shadow I have added a Mix set in Multiply with the factor in 0.800 and the upper Image input connected to the shadow's Render layers' Image Output and the second image input links with AO (Ambient Occlusionl).

From there Mix connects through its Image Output with the blur's Image Input which is configured like this:

Gaussian

Bokeh active

x: 5

y: 5

Size: 1.000

The way the character Render Layers were worked is out of the scope of this tutorial so after you work it out add an AlphaOver.In the image its connected directly to the Render Layers' Image output.

From the Shadow's Blur's Image Output make a link with the AlphaOver's upper Image Input. To the Output of what you worked of the character connect it to the other Image Input. Configure the rest of options of the AlphaOver like this:

Convert Premul active

Premul: 1.000

Fac: 1.000 (factor)

From there, add a Separate HSVA connected to the AlphaOver's Image Output.

Well, now prepare the link with the glares, to be in the image as part of the alpha, in the given case that is wanted that the image only shows the character with out the background and floor, but with his shadows and glares present.

From the RGB Curves that we have linked to the glare connect its Image Output to a RGB to BW to reduce the glares to its equivalent scale on gray tones. The value output is going to be linked with a new Add in the inferior Image Input. the superior input connect with the Separate HSVA from the A Output. The factor is in 5.000.

And is ready, we have a gammut of integrated alphas, which we can link from any point of the process to show whatever we want of the image.

But this only works if we want to separate the shadow, character, glares or a mix of these elements in an image with transparency.

Now add a Set Alpha node. From the RGB Curves' output connect to the Set alpha's image input.

Now add a Render Layers node with the floor&background layer on. Connect its image output to a new Alpha Over node's upper image input. Set the alpha over to Convert Premul deactivated, Premul to 0.00 and factor to 1.0. Also connect the last alpha over's image output to the newest one's lower image output.

That way the image will have the monkey, its shadow and the background, but not the glares.
To add the glares we'll add a Mix node set to add. Then, link the Set Alpha node's Image output with the upper image input of the mix node and the Alpha Over node connected to the floor Render Layers' output to the lower Mix node input.

Normally the process would be done here. We have the effects, the character, the shadow and the background separeted in layers. We can even render them separetedly if we want to. But we can add and extra layer to split the background a little more, since in certain occassions you'll matte paint to the far backdrop and add 3D models in front of them to optimize the rendering time. Thus we'll add a random texture image as an example of a wall right before the floor's layer.

Add an Image node from the input section of the add menu. Then add an Alpha Over node Set exactly as the last one you added. Link its lower image input to the last Mix node's output we worked on. Then, link the Image node's output to the remaining image input in the last Alpha Over node.

With that the image is ready!

But, wait! We left a mix node floating around. You are right. That node is not integrated in the main node network. But it can be used as an extra to separete again the character and its shadow, but this time its tinted with the floor's color. This can be useful since the color shadow option in the lamp's options doesn't work (at least for me) with this method. Just a little extra in case that you want some more control over your render.

To do this add another Set Alpha node. Link the alpha input to the Mix Curve output that is still not connected. Then make the connection between the Set Alpha's image input and the output of the Mix node that has the monkey, the background and the glares.

With that you'll get something like this:

This last image shows al the connexions in case that the explanation I delivered was confusing.

See ya.
-Wild Fx

Modeling a realistic human body complete - reference images and model

2013-12-04T18:12:00.000-06:00

This tutorial wasn't made by me. It´s been lost for quite a while. Hence I decided to put it back on the net. The author of these tutorials and the modeler is Kaushik Pal. subsurfguru@yahoo.com

You can use all the reference images anywhere you want without any restrictions. The two ear reference images are cutted out from a couple of head reference pics I found at www.fineart.sk. Scroll down to see all the images and save them to use.

To download the model go to this link:

http://www.mediafire.com/download/nuz74lias311egz/human%20model.rar

Remember that the model is for educational porpouses only, if you want to use it in any commercial way (included stills and animations) you need to ask for express permisson to Kaushik Pal (subsurfguru@yahoo.com) to use it commercially.

Here you can see the model finished. Move the view down with Shift+middle mouse boton and scroll to zoom in. For some reason the model appears outside the frame and too far away.

human model sketchfab from SalvadorGarcíaLuque on Sketchfab.

Happy Blending!

See ya!
-Wild Fx

Modeling a realistic human body complete - the feet

2013-12-04T16:56:00.003-06:00

Made in blender 2.3x

This tutorial wasn't made by me. It´s been lost for quite a while. Hence I decided to put it back on the net. The author of these tutorials and the modeler is Kaushik Pal. subsurfguru@yahoo.com

MODELING REALISTIC FEET

1.BASIC SETUP:

As in the previous tutorials, load the four images of the foot like the image below:

In top view add a mesh plane like this:

In top view, extrude and subdivide the plane to get the following profile.

In side view extrude all the vertices upwards once.

In bottom view change the topology like this:

Now start moving vertices to get a nice(!!) 3D profile of the foot.

Delete the selected vertex.

Select

Delete

Extrude the open vertices upwards once.

Move the new vertices around and merge to get something like this:

Shape the fingers properly.

Before

After

From the front view.

Before

After

When you are satisfied with the mesh make it a subsurf in level 1 and tweak its vertices

Now before we convert the subsurf to a mesh, let us do some tweaking in the little finger. Because if you look at the little finger you will notice that, unlike the other fingers, it is slightly tilted towards the left. To achieve this rotate or move the vertices of the upper region.

Before

After

2.SUBDIVIDING THE MESH:

When you are satisfied with your foot mesh convert the subsurf to a mesh. Keep the original in a separate layer. Now we have enough vertices to get the shape of a realistic foot. I tweaked the vertices to get a more accurate profile of the foot, like this:

Before

After

Now a boring job yet again! Shape all the fingers properly by moving the vertices, be careful that every finger touches the ground and not hovers in space.

Before

After

When you are satisfied with the fingers make the nails the same way we did in our hand tutorial. It should look like this:

Shape the bones by moving vertices up and down.

Before

After

Now, let us work on the bones above the ankle from both sides. In left view (CTRL+NUMPAD 3) currently our foot looks like this (vertices of other side are hidden):

Change the topology to this:

Shape the vertices around the bone to get a profile like in the image below.

Update the topology of the opposite side too.

Before

After

Move vertices to get the following profile.

Move the open vertices upwards a bit and collapse some vertices as we have a lot less open vertices in the leg to connect to.

In back view, tweak the ankle and the heel bones.

Before

After

Tweak vertices around in the bottom of the foot.

Before

After

Finally, resize the foot and move it to the right position below the leg.

HALT!! Before you join the foot to the leg one last yet neccessary step is required! Rotate the foot roughly 10 degrees counter-clockwise.

Because if you stand neutral you will notice that your feet are not perfectly straight, they stay at some rotated direction. You have to put some effort to make them straight. So, I thought turning the foot and then joining it to the leg would be more scientific.

The images below show how the model looked before and after stitching the foot to the leg (one row of vertices has been added above the open vertices of the leg after stitching):

Before

After

And here is how my final feet looked like:

Happy Blending!

See ya!
-Wild Fx

Modeling a realistic human body complete - the hands

2013-12-04T16:11:00.001-06:00

Made in blender 2.3x

This tutorial wasn't made by me. It´s been lost for quite a while. Hence I decided to put it back on the net. The author of these tutorials and the modeler is Kaushik Pal. subsurfguru@yahoo.com

MODELING THE HANDS

1.PRIMARY SETUP:

Let us first setup our interface to model the hands. Generally I prefer a 4-way view for this. Here is my setup after loading all the reference images in the background:

Note, you may have to tweak around the background's offset buttons to place the images correctly.

Now start with a mesh plane in top view.

In top view, make the plane bigger and, using the knife cut tool, add rows of vertices like this:

Make faces quads and move all the vertices to proper positions.

Extrude vertices again to get the following profile.

Extrude vertices to get the profile of the fingers.

In side view, extrude the vertices upwards.

Now hide the vertices of the upper side and change the topology of the vertices of the bottom of the hand.

Before

After

Now, a bit of editing! Place all the vertices into proper positions to get the profile of a 3d hand.

Delete the selected faces.

Select

Delete

Make the mesh a subsurf in level 1 and fine tweak the vertices to match the background images. My hand looked like this after a bit of tweaking:

2.SUBDIVIDING THE MESH:

When you are satisfied, convert the subsurf to a mesh (ALT+C) and keep the original mesh in some other layer.

Now we have enough vertices to add detail. Move vertices around until you get the correct profile of the hand.

Before

After

3.MAKING THE FINGERS RIGHT:

Now it's time to work on the fingers. Let's see how the index finger looked like before and after tweaking vertices. Notice the areas around the finger joints and nails.

Before

After

Repeat the previous step for all the fingers. When I completed this task my hand looked like the image below.

4.WORKING WITH NAILS:

Delete the selected vertex of the forefinger (or index finger).

Select

Delete

In top view, reshape the open vertices to match the nail of the background image (or your own!!):

Now extrude the open vertices downwards once, again upwards once (just a little bit higher than the original open vertices). Again extrude them and resize the new vertices. Finally, fill the faces and tweak the vertices. The images below define the whole process.

Extrude downwards

Extrude upwards and resize

Extrude and resize

Fill faces with one additional vertex in the middle.

Tweak vertices to get the correct profile.

Repeat the previous technique for all the fingers (soooo boring and tiring!!) and you will get something like the image below:

FINAL TWEAKING WITH ADDED DETAILS:

We are almost at the end of our tutorial here. Only rest a bit of fine tweaking to the hands with some more details.

Change the topology of the following areas:

Before

After

Now, add more rows of vertices and move them to make the bones of the back of the hand area more pronounced.

Before

After

Add one more row for the thumb bone.

Before

After

Now, merge some vertices and make the triangle faces quads as we are going to have a lot less open vertices in the arm.

Before

After

Now we have a complete hand in our arsenal which has to be stitched with the arms. Let's see how our hand looks like so far.

As a final step, let us join the hand with the rest of the body.

Resize, rotate and move the hand to fit the arm.

Stitch to the arm with additional vertices in the lower arm to fit the stitching.

Happy Blending!

See ya!
-Wild Fx

Modeling a realistic human body complete - the body

2013-12-04T14:39:00.002-06:00

Made in blender 2.3x
This tutorial wasn't made by me. It´s been lost for quite a while. Hence I decided to put it back on the net. The author of these tutorials and the modeler is Kaushik Pal. subsurfguru@yahoo.com

MODELING A REALISTIC HUMAN BODY

As I said earlier, the future of your model is decided in the very first subdivision level where you setup the topology of the basic mesh. Once you have the topology of the vertices right in the final subdivision level, the job of adding detail becomes mechanical.

1.BASIC SETUP:

Now, let us setup the reference images into blender's interface. Note that unlike other modelings like the head and the ear, we will be using multiple references for particular parts of the body. Because very few images contain the overall body detail (specially in cases of the male body).

My drawing skills are very limited. Yet, I could manage to sketch the human body from front, side and back view. Let us load the first pair of reference images in a screen namely "front+side".

Add the side and back images in another screen namely "back+side".

In front view, add a plane and move all the vertices to the right.

Now make the mesh a subsurf and extrude vertices in front view to make it like the image below:

In side view, extrude all the vertices.

Delete selected faces.

Select

Delete

In side view, shape the mesh according to the reference image.

Don't worry about the hips right now. We will deal with it later.

Now, in another screen, load the image of the arm from top view and shape the arm.

Before

After

In the back view, move vertices (you may need to move the reference image a bit):

Before

After

Move vertices of the frontal part of the leg.

Before

After

Do the same for the back of the leg.

Before

After

In the wrist region, make the triangles quads like this:

Before

After

Do the same for the other faces in the region too to make the region look like the image below:

The result should look like a 90 degrees twisted region.

In side-view, update the topology of the frontal hip region.

Before

After

3.SUBDIVIDING THE MESH:

When you are satisfied with the topology and shape of the model, convert the subsurf to a mesh by pressing "ALT+C". Keep the original mesh in a separate layer, incase you need to go back to the previous level of subdivision.

(I)THE BODY

Now, we have enough vertices to add detail. But before we do that, let us shape the body precisely according to the reference images:

Before

After

Now let us add detail to the frontal body part. Hide any vertex that you don't need.

Before

After adding more rows of vertices and moving them.

Repeat the previous step for the rib cage.

Before

After

In solid mode.

Front

Side

When you are satisfied with the front section of the body, shape the back of the body.

Before

After

I added some more detail in the back.

Unhide the vertices of the lower hip portion and shape the hip.

Unhide

Shape

(II)The legs:

When you are satisfied with the shape of the body it's time to shape the legs. Hide all the vertices except the ones in the front part of the legs. Our mesh looks like the image below now:

Follow the guidelines below to shape the leg.

Shape

Add rows and shape.

Add rows and move vertices in the knee region.

Repeat the previous step

Move vertices to get the correct profile.

Shape the lower leg according to the reference with added rows.

Before

After

In side-view, make triangles quad and shape the leg with added rows if neccessary.

Before

After

Do the same for the opposite side.

Before

After

In back view, shape the leg.

Before

After (with one added row in the lower heap)

Now we can say that we are finished (almost!!) with the modeling of the body. Minor tweakings can be done at the time of finishing. So let us proceed to the next section, which is modeling the arm.

(III)MODELING THE ARM:

Shape the arm according to the reference image.

Now start adding detail to the biceps from top (vertices of the opposite side are hidden).

Before

After

From closeup:

In front-view, shape the arm.

Before

After

In bottom view, shape the arm.

Before

After (with added rows)

Work around to get the right profile of the back.

Before

After (with added rows)

(IV) MODELING THE NECK:

Now we are in the final part of this lengthy tutorial. Modeling the neck! Modeling the neck is not just extruding some rows of vertices upwards. Like other parts of the body, you should follow the muscle structure of the neck too.

I will start with a simple mesh box. Position the vertices to match the outline of the open vertices of the body and delete three faces to make it look like the image below (with subsurf level of one):

Now convert the subsurf to a mesh by pressing "ALT+C" and tweak vertices to get the following profile:

Keep adding rows of vertices until you have something like this:

Add more rows around the Adam's apple.

Work around the back of the neck to get this profile (add more rows if neccessary):

Join the neck with the body and stitch the open vertices. You may need additional vertices to match the stiching area.

Before stitching

After stitching

Finally, resize the body to fit to the head in proportions and join them. Stitch the open vertices of the head and the neck:

Before stitching

After stitching

Happy Blending!

See ya!
-Wild Fx

Modeling a realistic human body complete - the ear

2013-12-04T13:01:00.000-06:00

Made in blender 2.3x

This tutorial wasn't made by me. It´s been lost for quite a while. Hence I decided to put it back on the net. The author of these tutorials and the modeler is Kaushik Pal. subsurfguru@yahoo.com

MODELING REALISTIC EARS

Modeling realistic ears is sometimes overlooked by many artists. My approch towards modeling an ear is very straight-forward and yet gives good results and saves a lot of time and effort.

1.BASIC SETUP:

First you need to have the reference images of an ear from front and side views. The references I am using here are downloaded from fineart.sk. Load the images into blender's interface:

In side view add a mesh plane:

In side-view, extrude the mesh tracing the folds like the image below:

In front view extrude the selected vertices to the left:

Select

Extrude

Repeat the process for the following areas:

Select

Extrude

Select

Extrude

Press the 'subsurf' button ando see how the mesh looks like:

Now let us give the ear shape in front view. Carefully follow the reference image while doing this. Select the vertices in side/perspective view and move them according to the back-image:

Also, delete these two vertices.

When you are satisfied with the mesh its time to add detail to the model. Delete the following face:

Join the open vertices in this fashion:

Delete Faces.

Make new faces with one added vertex.

Repeat the process in the following area with a little varation:

Delete Face.

Cut with Knife or subdivide here:

Make Face.

2.ADDING DETAIL:

Make triangles quads.

Now add more rows of vertices here:

Make triangles quads.

Add more rows.

Make triangles quads.

Collapse vertices and make the triangles quads.

Lets see what do we have so far:

We have all the vertices. That's all right, but it is time to place them into their proper positions. I felt satisfied with this form:

Update the following area like the image below:

Delete the edge.

Make Face.

Extrude the open vertices and position them:

Extrude.

Position.

Extrude the selected vertices like this:

Select.

Extrude.

Make Face.

Move towards the back.

Now add rows of vertices and move them:

Add row.

Move vertices.

Add row.

Move vertices.

Collapse a few vertices and make the faces quad, because we have to join it to the original head mesh which will have a lot less open vertices.

Collapse

Make quad.

We have successfully finished modeling the ear. Track the whole model to see if there is any scope for making triangles to quads or to add extra detail. Lets see what we have in our hands:

3.ADDING THE EAR TO THE HEAD:

So far so good! But now the important thing, joining the ear to the head. We have to make the ear look like a part of the head and not something that is blended with the head. It is more difficult than it seems.

But before we join the head and the ear, let us give the head and the ear two separate materials namely 'head' and 'ear'. We are doing this because if we feel that the ear needs some modification we can simply select all the vertices of the ear by selecting the vertices that have the 'ear' material.

After you have added materials to the head and the ear let us delete the selected vertex of the head:

Move the open vertices of the ear properly to match the head.Select the open vertices of the ear and separate them by pressing 'p' and join the separated vertices to the head.

Place vertices properly.

Separate the selected vertices.

Tweak the open vertices of the head guided by the open vertices of the ear and fill the faces. Don't even touch a single vertex of the ear.

Move vertices of the head.

Fill faces.

Now join the ear with the head and 'remove doubles' the vertices:

I tweaked the stitched region of the head and the ear with some added vertices:

And finally, I could not resist to see the head rendered! And, before you render, one last tip. Keep the camera lens 70mm or more while taking close-ups of the head. I rendered the following image from a 140mm camera:

Happy Blending!

See ya!
-Wild Fx

Modeling a realistic human body complete - the head

2013-12-04T01:15:00.000-06:00

Made in blender 2.3x

This tutorial wasn't made by me. It´s been lost for quite a while hence I decided to put it back on the net. The author of these tutorials and the modeler is Kaushik Pal. subsurfguru@yahoo.com

Modeling a realistic human head

For modeling the head I will loosely follow the topology below:

I believe that while modeling organic objects the future of your model is always decided in the primary subdivision level.

So, how you setup the topology of your mesh in this subdivision level is the key to a clean and nice model.

1.PRIMARY SETUP:

Ok...now let us start modeling the head. First of all load the reference images into blender after dividing your interface into 2 views. This should look like this:

Add a mesh plane in side view and in the front view move all the vertices to the right 2 units like the image below:

Extrude and subdivide (using knife tool) the plane in side view and convert to subsurf of level one to make it look like this:

In front view extrude all the vertices 2 units to the left like the image below:

Delete all the faces of the selected vertices like this:

2.SHAPING THE MESH:

Now let us give the mesh a bit shape. While shaping the front part hide the back vertices when neccessary. Follow the images below:

It's always a good idea to make the draw type of the mesh 'wire' and keep a mirrored duplicate which will be 'solid' or 'shaded' on the other side like this:

In top view shape the back of the head:

3.SUBDIVIDING THE MESH:

When you are satisfied with the shape of the head convert the subsurf to a mesh by pressing "ALT+C" and keep the original mesh in a separate layer, incase you want to go to the previous subdivison level later. Note that i have pressed the 'optimal' button below the 'subsurf' buttons.

Now we have a full fledged mesh which has to be given the shape of a photoreal head. The images below might help you to shape the mesh (unneccessary vertices are hidden):

When you are done tweaking the vertices lets look at it if it looks like the image below or not!

It's clear that we are going to need more rows of vertices around the lower portion of the eye area and the forehead. Let us add some more rows in the lower portion of the eye using the knife cut tool.

After making the triangle faces quad and tweaking the new vertices my mesh looked like this:

Let us add another row in the following area:

After adding the row and tweaking the new vertices (and the old ones!) the mesh looks like this:

Add another row of vertices on the forehead area and tweak them:

4.MODELING THE EYES:

When you are satisfied with your mesh it's time to make the eyes. Before we start making the eye hole we need to have enough vertices to give the eyes shape. Let us add more vertices around the eye area like the images below:

Move vertices and delete the face like this:

Keep adding vertices:

Now we have enough vertices. But things look messy around the corner of the eye:

Add, delete vertices and/or faces, do whatever it takes to make things look a bit better like this:

Now move vertices to proper positions and extrude:

Keep tweaking vertices' positions and extruding untill you get something like the following image:

The eye does not look realistic at all. Don't worry, we will deal with it later.

Now add a sphere (mesh or nurbs) in front view. Rotate, move and resize it to fit as an eyeball:

But in perspective view what do we see? There is a hollow area around the corner of the eye!

To make the hollow places disapear move the vertices of the eye accordingly:

When you are done add more rows of vertices in the eye area to make it look more prominant and realistic.

Note that I have added a couple of rows of vertices around the following areas to have more control over that region:

5.MODELING THE NOSE:

Now the nose. In side view move the vertices around the nose like this:

Add rows of vertices like the image below:

Add more rows, tweak the vertices, add and delete faces to make the nose area:

Now delete the selected edge:

Now extrude the open vertices like this:

In side-view add more vertices around the lower nose area and tweak them:

Extrude the vertices around the nostril upwards 2 times and tweak them:

Finally, the nose of my model looked like this:

6.MODELING THE MOUTH:

The eyes and nose are done. Now, the mouth. Add rows of vertices around the mouth region like this:

Delete the faces:

Move the vertices in front and side view:

Add rows of vertices, move, add and delete faces:

Add a row in this fashion:

Now extrude the open vertices like the image below:

Keep extruding and moving vertices until you have something like this:

Happy Blending!

See ya!
-Wild Fx

Tools in depth - Dynamic topology sculpting

2013-03-26T11:35:00.004-06:00

Coming in blender 2.66 we find this new tool called Dynamic topology sculpting. This tool has as function to generate new geometry while painting with the sculpt brushes to make more organic the sculpting process in general.

In this video I show the capabilities of the tool as well as some of the deficiencies and conflicts it can has with modifieres.

http://youtu.be/uXqGibww69E

See ya!
-Wild Fx

Advanced Mega Rig - Leg - 06 - Rocking the foot

2013-01-02T14:27:00.001-06:00

After finishing the curvy and stretchy legs, is time to focus in the controls of the foot, with which it will be a lot easier to animate the walking of teh character you work on. To start, in this tutorial will make the character able to rock his/her feet back and forth. Also we'll give him/her a more natural rotation to the character's knee. For this stage I took inspiration from red nelb made by Daniel Martinez Lara "pepeland".

Here you can see the demo of the leg's rig:
http://www.daniel3d.com/pepeland/misc/3dstuff/blender/rig/plender_leg_v0-1.MPG

Here you can download the rig file made with blender 2.49:
www.daniel3d.com/pepeland/misc/3dstuff/blender/rig/blender_leg_v0-1.zip

See ya!
-Wild Fx

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV5cs2nRyXw&feature=share&list=PLEF591775D68BD657

Advanced Mega Rig - Leg - 05 - Curvy limbs - Quick fix

2013-01-02T14:23:00.001-06:00

Surely you noticed that the way the upper part of the leg curves differently to how the inferior part does it. In this mini-tutorial you'll see why this happens and how to solve this kind of mistakes with which we can meet when we make a rig.

See ya!
-Wild Fx

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TNtgkyJiG8&feature=share&list=PLEF591775D68BD657

What to do if a Hard Disk Drive can't be mounted neither in linux nor windows

2012-12-30T18:28:00.001-06:00

Well, that's the question. What to do if your Hard Disk Drive is left inexplicably blocked in Linux? Simple, go to Windows and let it do a complete scan of the disk with chkdsk /f. But... oh oh. Windows doesn't let you in either! In fact it suggest to format before it can uses the disk! Oops, it seems that now we are utterly beaten, isn't it? Well,... really, no. There are some options.

In my case ubuntu 12.10 threw me this message:

Error mounting /dev/sdf1 at /media/salvador/2A0CF26A0CF23105: Command-line `mount -t "ntfs" -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid,uid=1000,gid=1000,dm ask=0077,fmask=0177" "/dev/sdf1" "/media/salvador/2A0CF26A0CF23105"' exited with non-zero exit status 13: Failed to load runlist for $MFT/$DATA.
highest_vcn = 0x1b12f, last_vcn - 1 = 0x1b123
Failed to load $MFT: Input/output error
Failed to mount '/dev/sdf1': Input/output error
NTFS is either inconsistent, or there is a hardware fault, or it's a
SoftRAID/FakeRAID hardware. In the first case run chkdsk /f on Windows
then reboot into Windows twice. The usage of the /f parameter is very
important! If the device is a SoftRAID/FakeRAID then first activate
it and mount a different device under the /dev/mapper/ directory, (e.g.
/dev/mapper/nvidia_eahaabcc1). Please see the 'dmraid' documentation
for more details.

Which indicates a blockage of the disk for some irrgularity and doens't let enter the disk. This disk I had it plugged-in a dockstation, one similar to these.

You know, to let it as an external HDD. The first I did was to follow the suggestions of the message itself, start windows and do a disk check. What happened was what I already told you, Windows suggested me to perform a formatting of the HDD before it could do the disk check. That beats the purpouse, doesn't it?

Then the next thing I did was to try to create an ISO image of the disk in ubuntu using Gparted and, even though it did it, the graphic mode of ubuntu turned off, leaving to the imagination the advance of the creation of the image. And, because hte disk is of 1Tb, well, you can imagine that the image was going to last something around 24 hrs. and if I mistakenly turned it off before, the disk would simply not work. Anyway, I never took this until the end so I never knew if it would work or not.

the next thing I tried was to use testdisk in ubuntu, which I couldn't. Then I thought that, if by only rewiring the conections of the Disk drives, the grub got back to normal (I had a problem with the grub in which it didn't detect the boot disk) well, maybe the same would happen if I reconnected the disk internally. So i did, I plugged in the disk as an internal one. I opened the computer, unplugged one of the Hard disks and replced it with the disk with the problem. Then I turned on the computer, opened Windows (7 for me, but I don't believe that makes any difference) and immideately Windows started to work by opening automatically the disk check (chkdsk) and fixing the disk, all by itself.

My friend gave me some other suggestions which I hope you won't need them but anyway I'll mention them (some are in spanish though):

-Make a check with testdisk and a partiotion board or table fix.
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Paso_A_Paso

-Use palimptest , in ubuntu 12.10 its called disks and is installed by default:
http://www.noticiasubuntu.com/comprueba-la-salud-de-tus-discos-duros-en-ubuntu-con-palimpsest/

-efore formatting, make a data recovery with
http://www.howtoforge.com/ntfs-disk-recovery

-And the last and most dangerous, format and recover with photorec, or any other program of data recovery, like getdataback:
http://www.runtime.org/data-recovery-software.htm

See ya!
-Wild Fx

Advanced Mega Rig - Leg - 05 addendum - Curvy limbs - 2 extra ways

2012-11-11T16:42:00.000-06:00

Now we got to the second section of the fifth part of the Advanced Mega Rig!

From the last section surely you noticed that, if the general control of the kneeStr coul curve the leg, it's not possible to control independently each bone. Through these ways it is possible to achieve that freedom to leave it to the animator, but keep in mind the necesities of the animator and premeditate if is better to leave them at sight or not. For me is better to leave the possibility to be able to control the efects as accurate as possible, and leave the controls in some hidden layer to not overwhelm to the animator who. you know, is straight watching the rig for the very 1st time and is trying to get use to it. Also is always necessary to keep in mind the time and the usefulness of the rig to decide which method to use. As I said before, for me, if there's the time, is better to leave the possibility open.

Thes 2 new options have thier pros and their cons, but really they are almost indestinguishable, in reality they are narrowed down to that the tranformations constraint method is obligatory to give a limit to the controller bone in scale with a Limit Scale Constriant, because through these way it can be extrapolated unlimitedly.And through the Action Constraint version it will move what is animated in the action which is being used.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRRrQuFbRYg&feature=share&list=PLEF591775D68BD657

See ya!
-Wild Fx

Tools in depth - skin modifier

2012-10-18T22:25:00.000-05:00

Some time ago I was asked if I could make a video overviewing the new features and changes in blender 2.64a. I decided to make a series of tutorials explainning the new tools that Blender will have and the ones that have been spoken of too little, eventhough they are already in previous versions.

I start with the skin modifier, more than anything because this tool has been already explained in other pages like (http://www.blendtuts.com/skin_modifier_04_09_2012) and blender cookie, but only in spansih (http://cgcookie.com/blender/2012/10/04/blender-2-64-overview-new-features-and-updates/) and I want to leave behind the stuff others have already covered to go deep into the parts less explored of the program. Despite that, I bring you some new stuff to the topic.

http://youtu.be/tF1ShjCaotk

See ya!
-Wild Fx

Advanced Mega Rig - Leg - 05 - Curvy limbs

2012-10-07T15:24:00.001-05:00

The 5th appeared!

After adding the stretch effect for the character, we pass to the curveable limbs effect to leave the cartoonish effect for the character more complete. For thi tutorial We will see lattices, bezier curves, the lattice and curve modifiers end how to set the single driver to simplify the rig controls for animators.

For the first part you'll see how I placed the lattices and curves of the character to later connect them through modifiers, vertex groups and constraints. When I'm connecting the curve's handles to the bones, I take the time to explain a very common error when it comes to use the hook modifier with armatures and target it to a specific bone. In the second part I show you how to do to configure the single driver to control it with the Y scale of the KneeStr bone.

In this tutorial, I decided to leave the entire video to show you the most common errors you could find when you are placing the lattice and curves linked with lattice and hook modifiers.

http://youtu.be/JMe0nJWwN6g

See ya!
-Wild Fx

Blender 2.64 arrives!

2012-10-04T03:04:00.001-05:00

At last, after finishing the mango project, now known has tears of steel, is that the Blender Foundation releases the version 2.64 of Blender. Now with more tools, and improved motion tracker. As always the recent project is the reason for Blender to have major improvements in its source code. This time the project was focused entirely in compositing and matte painting, giving us a new section for Blender, the motion tracker. But along with that excellent addition, there are a bunch of other stuff developers from the foundation and everywhere has granted to us. Like the skin modifier, which is Blender the first app to appear in, new nodes for the node compositor, and new game engine features, among other stuff.

Take your copy right here, while is still hot:
http://www.blender.org/download/get-blender/

Here is a quick list of what has been improved, added or change in the new version.

-A mask editor for compositing

-The node compositor got improved and new tools

-Tile base node compositor

-OpenCL

-New nodes
-bokeh image
-bokeh blur
-box mask
-ellipse mask

-reroute
-switch
-Color management

-Motion tracker

-Cycles

-Green screen keying
-keying node
-keying screen node

-Sequencer improvements

-New mesh tools for Bmesh
-Wireframe tool
-convex hull

-Sculpting improvements
-Sculpt masking
-mask brush
-brush map mode
-input stroke averaging
-new hotkeys
-center on last stroke
-cancel stroke in progress

-Collada exporter

-Skin modifier

-Game engine
-Lamps & shadows
-colored shadows
      -simplified shadow panel
      -variance shadow buffer
      -sun lamps shadows
       -lamp video textures
-image textures
-Physics
      -Deactivation
      -Character physics type

-More features
-curves
-nodes
-physics
-python
-user interface
-pose mode

-And more...

For more detail go here
http://www.blender.org/development/release-logs/blender-264/

Advanced Mega Rig - Leg - 04 - Interchangeable stretchiness

2012-09-28T19:47:00.001-05:00

The fourth one is here!

Now is in this tutorial where we include the stretch effect for the characters. the method, eventhiugh is not new, is a very good method to achieve the stretchiness. Thie method is based upon the one used by Bassam Kurdali in the mancandy f.a.q. dvd which you can find in the youtube channel of the BlenderFoundation. but, in difference to that method, in this one the leg is configured to change among the fk and the ik modes, And for that reason the stretchiness should work between both modes, which is covered in this tutorial in the second half.

In this link you can find the introduction video of mancandy f.a.q.:

http://youtu.be/JEiJJ1nMI4k

And from there you can go to the other tutorials of that dvd, which, sadly, is no longer in sale at the blender e-store.

Link to the tutorial:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DS6UlXdWAq0&feature=share&list=PLEF591775D68BD657

See ya!
-Wild Fx

Advanced Mega Rig - Leg - 03 - Special configurations

2012-09-13T02:33:00.000-05:00

And we are in the third one!

In this tutorial we'll trait the special configurations with which Blender comes since some versions behind. In this tutorial we'll cover three topics. First, the custom shape bones, second, the bone groups with custom colors, and, at last, custom properties.

This pack of tools are made to make easier to identify that what the bone does and in what part of the character is each bone located. Remember that for the animators is far better to leave all the mechanisms hidden and the control bones at plain sight. And, if they have to control a mechanism or a bone that has to be hidden, is better to add a custom property to control that bone or bone's property. The best rigs are the ones that appear to be the most simple.

http://youtu.be/zH0NPifU_kE

See ya!
-Wild Fx

Advanced Mega Rig - Leg - 02 - IK Rig

2012-08-15T13:40:00.003-05:00

At last the second tutorial has arrived!

That's right, after a while, the second tutorial is ready. In this part we'll go into a not entirely conventional IK rigg. Some of the stuff shown is how to make the standard knee control through the IK contraint. But also it's added a mechanism to achieve that the knee control is more mechanized, based from Nathan Veghdal's method, whio shows us this in his Humanne rigging dvd (http://www.blender3d.org/e-shop/product_info_n.php?products_id=146). Which I totally recommend.

And to finish, my apport to this part of the rig, that at this point is small, but helps to be able to set the next steps for the new stuff this rig has.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWQ3vO1uHnQ

See ya!
-Wild Fx

venom´s lab 2 is already here... in my house.

2012-08-03T14:55:00.003-05:00

As some may already know, Pablo Vasquez, an apreciated element of the blender comunity, has put to sale and ship his last workshop dvd entitled venom´s lab 2. I haven´t said anything until now, because I wanted to watch it before commenting anything about this dvd. It turns out that Pablo is argentinian, like so he speaks spanish, so he has always taken the effort of give us his videotutorials in spanish as well as in english. And for that we are grateful. The tutorials by themselves are very interesting. To those who had already seen venom´s lab 1, you will recognize his methodology, but in this ocasion is spiced up with new tools that blender has been implemented with since not many versions before and that we may not even know they existed.

An excelent dvd to add to the collection, absolutely.

Here, the link to buy the dvd at the blender store:
http://www.blender3d.org/e-shop/product_info_n.php?products_id=149

See ya!

-Wild Fx

Advanced Mega Rig - Leg - 01 - FK Rig

2012-08-02T20:04:00.001-05:00

Yep, here is the first videotutorial of the Advanced Mega Rig tutorial.

Since this one I get to show you something new in blender, the mantain volume constraint. It's a relatively short tutorial, I mean I just talk about how to set a Forward Kinematics Rig with stretchiness, there is not much to make it longer than this. Eventhough I get to explain all I wanted about the constraint and the inherit scale option, so enjoy the video.

http://youtu.be/ETszWuHpjEs

See ya!
-Wild Fx

New youtube channel for Hinting Blender

2012-07-27T19:13:00.000-05:00

Yes, we have a channel!

The channel's name is Hinting Blender. There are going to be lots of tutorials in spanish, french, and,evidently, english too.

There, Iḿ going to put several videotutorials, strating with the advanced mega rig. Which shows new ways to rig a character with blender. Being that the first part is already made and that Iḿ going to upload it soon. I'll keep you inform through this media. But still, donpt forget to subcribe to the channel and visit us here too.

What does this rig have that makes it soo mega advanced?

Haaaa, excelent question! This rig is a compendium of the study of rig through years of evolution that blender has had. Starting by the likeable and estimated mancandy, that show us different creative ways to replace need that blender had then. Passing by the rigs that Nathan Vegdahl have been consistently improving like being the big buck bunny's and sintel's. Until rigs like the cg master's ninja rigand the eleven rig, very interesting and advanced en their own style.

And sure this pack of tutorials show a new and refreching way to rig a character in blender by its own too.

Some stuff I left them floating in the air, like how the quaternion bones work, that is shown in Nathan's dvd humanne rigging, which I invite you to get. Is fascinating and very technical but serves its porpous; the master's ninja rig,that comes with rig adds that are very good. Besidem I invite you all to analyze the eleven rig, that can be downloaded from here: http://elevenrig.blogspot.mx/

This is the link to the animated logo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IBts-UHALA

Here is the link to the youtube channel
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6TkV1KT1sNNVJYJX_1GOGQ?feature=mhee

See ya!
-Wild Fx

Spot in the render caused by the blender´s node compositor and how to vanish it

2012-07-14T21:26:00.000-05:00

Made with blender 2.63a

While I was working in the animated logotype, I came across with a new render error. After hours of working in the nodes compositor, I took back the dimensions to its full size with the anti-alias set to 8...

...and this is what I got.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qYoqdHoWcA

But this only appears in 2 frames. The reason, I don´t know it. What I know is how I solved this problem. Obviously is located in the render phase, so the first thing I checked up were the composition nodes. I could locate the point in which the error is produced, the second blur node that is essential for the glow effect of the logo. So, no matter what I did, I couldn´t take it off from there. I tried replacing it for another blur node set as the one before and, for some time it worked, but it came back to square one.

Like Sherlok Holmes would say, if the answer isn´t where the logic dictates, the answer must lay in somewhere else. So I went to explore in other render areas of blender until I found that when I changed the anti-alias from 8 to any of the other options (5, 11 or 16), the render vanished the spot.

But another thing came out. Like you can see in the images below, the viewer shows the render being ok, but the final result (the one in the composite node) has in the DER letters some little green dots. Funny, but this errors appear only in the image shown by the blender´s render window.The saved image doesn´t has these errors.

But thanks to that I realized that the set alpha node changes a little bit what goes through it, because it clamps images. Which changes a little the hue, luminosity and saturation of the resulting image when the set alpha processes it with a new alpha. And because the image in some point is divided in 2 and, also, a glow effect is added to it, the color´s maximum level is exceded and the compositor can´t handle it in the visualization, eventhough it does can process the image with out these errors.

See ya!
Wild Fx

Quick tip - inverted render and how to fix it in blender 2.63

2012-07-04T03:06:00.000-05:00

Made with blender 2.63

This just happended to me. All I rendered was inverted. I had nothing activated (at least nothing logical that could be causing this). Then I noticed I had Save Buffers activated. This never was a problem before so at first I ignored it, but turned out to be it. Deactivated it and the render came back to normal.

The Save Buffers check button is in the render window under the tab Performance underneath the Memory section.

See ya!
Wild Fx

How to separate/mix alphas to control shadows in the node editor in Blender 2.63

2012-06-28T14:16:00.000-05:00

Made in blender 2.63

Welcome back!

The problem comes from the fact that the shadow is a product of the lights when they are obstructed by an object, ending this obstruction on another object. When is spoken of separate a object with alpha this problem never shows up. But, when is wanted to work with the shadow... ¡Ooooh boy!¡We have a situation!

To be able to work with the shadow separately and later add it to the rest of the image, you have to follow a certain process. Process by which I'll guide you through in this tutorial.

First, prepare the layer 1 with your character and all the lights, except the one that cast shadows, that commonly is the main lamp. In the Properties window, in the Render block, under the Layers tab, add a new Render Layer and under the Layer section activate only the layer 1, like in the image. Also, in the Passes section assure that the following options are activated:

Combined

Color

Diffuse

Specular

Shadow

Ambient Occlusion (AO)

In the 3D view's layer 2, create a plane. To this plane add a material which I have called shadowMat. Activate the Z tranparency and set the Alpha slider to whatever you prefer, I left it in 0.500. In the Shadow tab of the material, activate Shadows Only and deactivate Cast Buffer Shadows.

This way the clarity and transparency are controlled by the material's alpha slider.

Put the plane in the 3D view's second layer. Also, select tha lamp that has the shadow options active and put it in the layer 2 as well. Is important that this lamp, in the lamp options, have deactivated This Layer Only.

In the Render layers, create another layer for the shadow. And leave in the layer section the second layer active only.

Also, in the Passes section, assure that the following options are activated:

Combined

Ambient Occlusion (AO)

Create a third Render Layer targeted for the image's background and floor that, in this case, is in the same scene. The background consist of a plane with a sphere. In the case that the background are images, the background is added until we are working in the Node Editor. To this Render layer set the layer section to the third one, where my background and floor are.

Also, in the Passes section, assure that the following options are activated:

Combined

Mist

Color

Diffuse

Ambient Occlusion (AO)

Remember to have all 3 layers active in the 3D view before going to the Nodes Editor.

Now we go to the Nodes Editor window. Add 3 Render Layers. One for the character, another for the shadow and the last one for the background and floor.

Configure the Glare like this:

Fog Glow

Medium

Mix: 0.500

Theshold: 0.0

Size: 8

Duplicate the Glare and also connect it to the Specular Output of the character's Render Layers. Configure it this way:

Streaks

Medium

Iterations: 3

Color Modulation: 0.322

Mix: 0.700

Threshold: 0.030

Streaks: 2

Angle Offset: 90°

Fade: 0.900

Add an Add. And set it to Add with the first Glare connected to the upper Image input, and the second Glare to the lower. the factor is set to 1.500.

Connected to the Add's output is a RGB Curves. Only modify CSolo modifiquen C (the color) to brighten the glares, like is shown in the image.

For the shadow I have added and Add set in Multiply with the factor in 0.800 and the upper Image input connected to the shadow's Render layers' Image Output and the second image input links with AO (Ambient Occlusionl).

From there Add connects through its Image Output with the blur's Image Input which is configured like this:

Gaussian

Bokeh activo

x: 5

y: 5

Size: 1.000

The way teh chacter Render Layers were worked is out of the scope of this tutorial so after you work it out add an AlphaOver.

From the Shadow's Blur's Image Output make a link with the AlphaOver's upper Image Input. To the Output of what you worked of the character connect it to the othe Image Input. Configure the rest of options of the AlphaOver like this:

Convert Premul active

Premul: 1.000

Fac: 1.000 (factor)

From there, add a Separate HSVA connected to the AlphaOver's Image Output.

Well, now prepare the link with the glares, to be in the as part of the alpha, in the given case that is wanted that the image only shows the character with out the background and floor, but with his shadows and glares present.

From the RGBCurves that we have linked to the glare, connect its Image Output to a RGB to BW to reduce the glares to equivalent scale on gray tones. The value output is going to be linked with a new Add in the inferior Image Input. the superior input connect with the Separate HSVA from the A Output. The factor is in 5.000.

And is ready, we have a gammut of integrated alphas, which we can link from any point of the process to show whatever we want of the image.

But this only works if we want to separate the shadow, character, glares or a mix of these elements in an image with transparency.

Well, make a connection from the same A of Alpha Output of the Separate HSVA towards an Add to link as factor. In the Add's inferior Image Input tunrs to be connected with the AlphaOver's Image Output that mixes character with shadow. And the superior Image Input links with the background and floor's render Layers or whatever output of what was worked for the background and floor.

Now the only thing that lacks is to add the glares. From the RGB curve's Image Output, connect with the inferior Image input of the new Add. The superior input connects with the Image output of the Add that puts together the background with the character with shadow. The Add should be set to Add with a factor of 2.000.

In the case of being necesary separate the character with his shadow and glares from the background; simply, conect the output of the Add we left behind conected to the glares in black and white and the separated Alpha with Separate HSVA (Hue/Saturation/Value/Alpha) which had the character and his shadow together, To the Alpha Input of the Composite window, I have conected it with the Viewer only to show the image. The last thing needed to do is save in the Properties window, in the Render section, under the Output tab with a image format which supports transparencies like png, targa or tiff. Select RGBA, thus Blender knows that you want the alpha channel saved for the image. After rendering the image with F12 or going to the Render tab into the section ofwith the same name, in the Poperties window and pushing the Image button. Push F3 to open up the window to save images and save wherever. The image should appear with just the character, his shadow and effects. If you want the background to appear, leave unconnected the Composite's alpha input and save.

This last image shows al the connexions in case that the explanation I delivered was confusing.

See ya.
-Wild Fx

Change the default application to open with fails in Ubuntu 12.04

2012-06-22T12:38:00.000-05:00

Hello to everyone,

Around a month ago I installed Ubuntu 12.04 in my laptop. Some time later I noticed that, eventhough I had changed the application to open with by default for some files, Ubuntu kept opening them with the same application as before. Actually Ubuntu put a message telling me that it couldn't cahnge the app because the folder wasn't there.

Well, it was true. For some unexplained reason, Ubuntu didn't create the corresponding folder but a file, a text file.

The file was called applications. How did I solved this weird thing? www, I just erased this file and created the folder applications.

The file was in this path:
/home/your_name(Home folder)/.local/share

And right there I put the folder of the same name, applications.

See ya.
-Wild Fx

Hinting blender

How to separate/mix alphas to control shadows in the Node Editor in Blender 2.78c

Modeling a realistic human body complete - reference images and model

Modeling a realistic human body complete - the feet

MODELING REALISTIC FEET

1.BASIC SETUP:

2.SUBDIVIDING THE MESH:

Modeling a realistic human body complete - the hands

MODELING THE HANDS

1.PRIMARY SETUP:

2.SUBDIVIDING THE MESH:

3.MAKING THE FINGERS RIGHT:

4.WORKING WITH NAILS:

FINAL TWEAKING WITH ADDED DETAILS:

Modeling a realistic human body complete - the body

MODELING A REALISTIC HUMAN BODY

1.BASIC SETUP:

3.SUBDIVIDING THE MESH:

(I)THE BODY

(II)The legs:

(III)MODELING THE ARM:

(IV) MODELING THE NECK:

Modeling a realistic human body complete - the ear

TD P { margin-bottom: 0in; }P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { }

MODELING REALISTIC EARS

TD P { margin-bottom: 0in; }P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { }

1.BASIC SETUP:

2.ADDING DETAIL:

3.ADDING THE EAR TO THE HEAD:

Modeling a realistic human body complete - the head

Modeling a realistic human head

1.PRIMARY SETUP:

2.SHAPING THE MESH:

3.SUBDIVIDING THE MESH:

4.MODELING THE EYES: TD P { margin-bottom: 0in; }P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }

5.MODELING THE NOSE: TD P { margin-bottom: 0in; }P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }

6.MODELING THE MOUTH: TD P { margin-bottom: 0in; }P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }

Tools in depth - Dynamic topology sculpting

Advanced Mega Rig - Leg - 06 - Rocking the foot

Advanced Mega Rig - Leg - 05 - Curvy limbs - Quick fix

What to do if a Hard Disk Drive can't be mounted neither in linux nor windows

Advanced Mega Rig - Leg - 05 addendum - Curvy limbs - 2 extra ways

Tools in depth - skin modifier

Advanced Mega Rig - Leg - 05 - Curvy limbs

Blender 2.64 arrives!

Advanced Mega Rig - Leg - 04 - Interchangeable stretchiness

Advanced Mega Rig - Leg - 03 - Special configurations

Advanced Mega Rig - Leg - 02 - IK Rig

venom´s lab 2 is already here... in my house.

Advanced Mega Rig - Leg - 01 - FK Rig

New youtube channel for Hinting Blender

Spot in the render caused by the blender´s node compositor and how to vanish it

Quick tip - inverted render and how to fix it in blender 2.63

How to separate/mix alphas to control shadows in the node editor in Blender 2.63

Change the default application to open with fails in Ubuntu 12.04

4.MODELING THE EYES:

5.MODELING THE NOSE:

6.MODELING THE MOUTH: