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Christmas is coming

noreply@blogger.com (LuKs Dm) — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 19:36:32 PST

It's been some time since I last posted something here.

I have to upload some updates, but mean while, I'll show you what I did for the Blender Cookie's snowman contest right here:

If you feel like voting for my entry you can Like it here:
Luks Dm entry at Snowman contest

Thanks!

3D Character work in progress: Bonzo.

noreply@blogger.com (LuKs Dm) — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 22:00:36 PST

During the past week I've been working on a new blender character to submit it to the Double Happy contest!( look here: http://doublehappyrabbits.com ).

I didn't have much time to plan it so I started with the basicidea of a crazy, weird, kinda cute, little monkey.
After making a couple of sketches I came up with this:

Modelling the head was different than most of the things what I usually do, because his face is deliberately non-symmetrical, but after struggling a little with it I was able to finish the whole body modeling:

I made a quick rig to be able to pose it for the image, created a ( quite) decent skin shader, and at the moment I'm working onhis hair. I hope i get it finished in time !

You can follow the WIP thread In Blenderartists right here:
http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?237871-Baby-monkey

Free Blender model: Klein Bottle

noreply@blogger.com (LuKs Dm) — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 17:16:24 PST

I just uploaded a free Blender cycles model to Blend Swap.

You can download it from here:
Download!

This a thing I had never seen modeled in Blender before. If you don’t know what a Klein bottle is, check it out here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klein_bottle
Made using the latest Dingto’s cycles build ( 4779 for Win 32) from Graphicall.org.
I hope you like it .

The wall tribute- Blender Cycles render.

noreply@blogger.com (LuKs Dm) — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 16:43:12 PDT

(Click for full view.)
So after a couple of weeks, it's finally done and I can move on to another project :).
This is actually the first time I make a full architectural/ like render all by myself ( some years ago I followed that famous blender tutorial to create a group of buildings). It's made with Blender 2.59 using the cycles renderer ( I downloaded the latest build from Graphicall.org).

I started working on this one after watching the ( great) Pink Floyd movie, The Wall. The first scene in the whole movie caught my eye because of the mood it had, and the strange camera angle and lens used. The first thing that came to my mind was trying to recreate that in Blender using cycles.It took some days and several tutorials to actually learn some of the Cycles basics. It's a enormous improvement compared to the Blender Internal system, but sadly my video card didn't think the same, because it worked very slow.

Would love to read what you think of it ! :)
Stay tuned for a cycles tutorial soon.

Blender 2.60 released!

noreply@blogger.com (LuKs Dm) — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 19:25:17 PDT

The latest Blender 3D version, (Blender 2.60) was released a couple of days ago. With an impressive Splash Screen, some new features like 3d sound , and lots of fixes, these are definitely good news!. It includes UI translation, and some improvements in the weight painting and animation systems.

It's available for Windows, Linux and Mac, and you can download it from here:

BLENDER 2.6

Making a Martini in Blender

noreply@blogger.com (LuKs Dm) — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 09:19:24 PDT

Making a Martini in Blender 2.5 from Luks Dm on Vimeo.

In this tutorial you will see how to create a realistic glass in Blender material using Blender Internal Render Engine. Come back next week for more Blender tutorials!

Here you have both materials settings:

The cup one: ( click to view full)

The drink one:

And the textures:

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Next week's tutorial.

noreply@blogger.com (LuKs Dm) — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 12:07:44 PDT

After finishing the guitar tutorial, I've been working on a new Blender tutorial for you. The next one is gonna be on how to create a Martini in Blender, like this one:

It will be ready for Monday, so come back then to watch it.
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Electric guitar tutorial ( Part 2)

noreply@blogger.com (LuKs Dm) — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 20:30:12 PDT

After a while, finnaly here it is, the second part of the simple Electric Guitar tutorial for Blender 2.5

First part is here:
http://luksdm.blogspot.com/2011/03/blender-guitar-tutorial.html

After a long time having lots of problems with the screen capture software, I finally found a program that worked right and didn't generate huge videos.It's called Free Screen Recorder and you can download it from here: http://www.nbxsoft.com/download-screen-recorder.php ( for Windows only).

Got any questions? Ask me via the comments :)
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Cartoon Human rig in progress

noreply@blogger.com (LuKs Dm) — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 20:16:43 PDT

During the past two weeks I've been working on a full cartoon human rig for Blender, specially to use it on the 11 Second Club's competition.

The first version is quite finished, it uses the Rigify addon for Blender 2.59 made by Nathan Vegdhal. At the moment I'm still tweaking some parts of the rig to make it work better with the mesh I made. I also had to come with a full facial rig , so still there's a lot to do. I guess when it comes to a point where it looks decent enough I'll realase it under the creative commons license.

Come back in a couple of days to see some demonstrations on how the rig works, and maybe some animation tests :).

New Character: Charlie ! the traffic cone.

noreply@blogger.com (LuKs Dm) — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 14:17:16 PDT

I've been working in several project during these days, one of them is this one. Charlie began being just the quickly made cone you saw in the previous post, but he was begging for a mouth to shout with, so I had to give him one.
You are probably gonna see him in a scene soon. :)
You can also follow it's WIP thread on Blender Artists.

Quick post: Traffic cone WIP

noreply@blogger.com (LuKs Dm) — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:48:55 PDT

Working on a new project... just a little sneak peek :)

Blender powered can

noreply@blogger.com (LuKs Dm) — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 18:01:03 PDT

Just a little something I made following this GREAT Blender tutorial from Blender Guru. Liked it? Comment and share :)

Blender tutorial: Making realistic foam

noreply@blogger.com (LuKs Dm) — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 20:20:37 PDT

A couple of days ago I found this great Blender tutorial made by by Derek Watts for Blender Nerd, and uploaded it to Blendernation. It's quite easy to follow if you are an average blender user, and the results look great. I hope you enjoy it.

Creating Foam Blender 2.5 from Blender Nerd on Vimeo.

Original Source: http://blendernerd.com/creating-foam/

2D/3D Dark side of the Bubbles

noreply@blogger.com (LuKs Dm) — Fri, 27 May 2011 21:32:15 PDT

Normal lemons/Artistic lemons

noreply@blogger.com (LuKs Dm) — Tue, 24 May 2011 16:07:15 PDT

This post is about lemons.Just a little experiment.

Making a broom in Blender2.5

noreply@blogger.com (LuKs Dm) — Sun, 15 May 2011 13:14:59 PDT

Hi. In this Blender tutorial I'll show you how to make a Broom in Blender 2.5 like this one:

Let's start. First , create a new blender file, delete the default cube and add (Shift+a) a Plane. Now resize it like this:

Now we are gonna use some particles!. Go to the front view( Numpad1 ) and rotate your plane 180 degrees ( R 180) .Then select the plane you just created, go to the particles tag and add a new particle system. Set it to hair,uncheck the Render> Emmiter box and check Strand Render.

Now change the Blender mode to Particle mode:

Using the particle tools we have on the top left , comb the strands a little to both sides, and the cut it to make it look like we want it to.

Now go back into object mode and duplify (Shift+D) the plane and rotate it 180 degrees to make it look like this:

Now we repeat the same process we did with the other part:

And comb them from the side view:

Select one of the planes, assign it a new material and set it up like this:

Use the same material for the other plane.Now if you render it, it should look something like this:

To make it look a little bit more realistic, lets go to the material’s settings and add a texture. Select Blend in the texture type and check Colors>Ramp .Select a dark brown on the right and yellow in the left one.Then change the blend orentation to vertical.Render again, and you should be getting something like this:

Now that we are done with the particles, we need to do the metal parts.

The top oine is just a simple extruded ( E) circle sized down to fit the top of the strands, and the lower one is a subdivided and extruded plane.

Those two parts use the same material; just a simple metalized grey like this one.

Finally to make the wooden stick, just add a cylinder and resize it like this:

And asign it a light brown material , with Specular> hardness set to around 10.If you render now, you should be done!

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and found it usefull. If you liked it check my other BLENDER TUTORIALS. HERE.

Self portrait finished!

noreply@blogger.com (LuKs Dm) — Fri, 13 May 2011 16:06:44 PDT

I'm finally done with this little experiment, so I'm ready to move to the next project . Stay tuned for more news! :)

What i've been up to

noreply@blogger.com (LuKs Dm) — Fri, 13 May 2011 14:24:20 PDT

During these past weeks I've been working a lot. Besides from all the obligations i have out of the computer, I 've been posting some news at Blendernation, finished my self portrait character project , and started a youtube channel which took all my attention.
You can watch the first video I uploaded here:

I've been having some troubles with the screen recording software, so I still couldn't record the second part of the guitar modelling tutorial, but I hope I'll do it the next week :), this time on Blender 2.57!.

2D/3D Zeppelin Art

noreply@blogger.com (LuKs Dm) — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 10:52:34 PDT

( Cick to see full)
I used a mixed technique on this one.The zeppelin was modelled and rendered in Blender 3D, and the rest of the scene was made in Photoshop. I hope you enjoy it.

Some 2d art.

noreply@blogger.com (LuKs Dm) — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 12:56:44 PDT

Marianno new render

noreply@blogger.com (LuKs Dm) — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 18:30:11 PDT

I made a new render of Marianno, I hoper you like it!.

Cartoonish self portrait WIP

noreply@blogger.com (LuKs Dm) — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 11:18:39 PDT

I'm working on a new simple character that seems to be me, i hope you like it. Critics and comments are welcome.

You can follow the Work in Progress at Blender Artists.

Blender guitar tutorial

noreply@blogger.com (LuKs Dm) — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 20:31:30 PDT

Here you have a new BLENDER TUTORIAL!,

How to make a simple electric guitar in Blender

THE TUTORIAL
Part 1

Part 2

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My articles at Turbosquid

noreply@blogger.com (LuKs Dm) — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 13:37:10 PDT

I just registered at Turbosquid ( a 3d models selling site) and uploaded a couple of things like these:

Take a look here:
http://www.turbosquid.com/Search/Artists/ludemi84

Quick update: Marianno! new render

noreply@blogger.com (LuKs Dm) — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 21:51:25 PDT

During the past days i've been busy doing some blender tests such as hair tests , smoke, cloth etc. and trying to get some freelance job.I have also been working on Marianno and trying to improve his look, this is whayt i got so far:

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