After watching a quick tip tutorial from Kampoong Monster (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJVj4L5YKY8) I decided to make a short video using that VertexWeightProximity technique in Blender. The result is a simple icosphere mesh controlled by an invisible object animated around and through it.
Recently I stumbled upon Corona renderer and I made a test scene just for the purpose of trying it using the Blender exporter plugin and the standalone version of the renderer. I have to say, and you can see it from the picture above, that I’m really impressed by the easy way of managing materials, the great light effects and the incredible speed of this piece of software. The image you see took almost twenty minutes for this level of sharpness, but after six, seven minutes it was already very well shaped and a lot cleaner than anything you can achieve with Cycles in the same amount of time.
It’s time for a quick tutorial! Today I want to show you how to create custom environment maps you can use for your 3d scenes, just using your smartphone and the Photosynth app! Than we will see how to obtain many other hdrs from the Photosynth website just using a couple of free softwares. Let’s get started!
I’m in the process of moving my personal webpage on a fresh new WordPress.org account, with improved usability, more updated functionalities and new stuff I’m making. In few days this dotsandshadows address will come back to the initial dotsandshadows.wordpress.com state. I will use it as is in the upcoming months untill the fresh new page is ready to replace it.
When the site refresh will be complete I will update it more often with news, new projects, freebies and maybe also some tutorial…so stay tuned for it!
After following the latest tutorial from Andrew Price, that’s what I came up with. Three glasses of beer suitable for every taste! Cheers!
The Blender Foundation, two weeks ago, started the most ambitious project for the whole Blender community to date: to develop an animation movie by hiring the most talented animation studios around the world and involving them in the making of a short film. But this can only be done by achieving the 10.000 subscribers milestone for the new Blender Cloud service and there are only 19 days left!
I was one of the first 100 subscribers to the cloud and I can ensure you that is immensely worth the initial 45€ price and the 10€ renewal price after the first three month of subscription. For that price you get all the videos and assets from the previous open movies and also from the dvd courses from the Blender Foundation. In the next months, when the production of the movie will begin, you will also have complete access to the project material, from the early sketches to the final output. You will be able to follow step by step the whole process during the eighteen months of development.
So don’t esitate and get involved in the gigantic Gooseberry Project and help Blender to grow larger and better every day!
I finally uploaded the Eclisse lamp model on BlendSwap! I took this new upload also to start using the really nice SketchFab service for in browser 3d models showcase. Here the link to the Eclisse lamp on SketchFab.
Head on BlendSwap here to download the model and visit my sparkling new profile on SketchFab here!
With the Giochi Accessibili project, we have been selected from Wired for the Top 100 italian young enterpreneurs and startups!
The aim of the project is to create board games accessible also by blind and visually impaired people, allowing everyone to enjoy playful moments with their friends and families. In the last months I’m really pushing for this project and that’s why at the moment this page is not massively filled with 3d renders and Blender stuff in general. It’s a really interesting and innovative project that is giving me the opportunity to meet a lot of lovely people and their amazing ideas.
Few days ago I’ve been awarded by David Zerba with this Dragon’s Loyalty Award. The goal of this is to show appreciation to other bloggers we like and follow, to make a list of their blogs and give the award to some of them.
A big thank you to David for the award! I will try to make my nominees as soon as possible! Meanwhile you can take a look at his own list of pretty interesting blogs.
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