Tired of using scripts? Tired of crazy setups for Sub Surface Scattering? Look no further than Blender’s built in Compositor Nodes! This novel approach by Mike Pan (mpan3) uses Blender’s Compositor to create a highlight mask based on the Z render pass.
SSS Rendering with Nodes
March 14th, 2007Celtx – Open Source Storyboarding
March 10th, 2007Blender is an amazing tool for 3D production and post-production but what about animation pre-production? Alot of projects begin by creating a website, installing a forum, a blog, a content management system such as DotProject and then kind of slap it all together. Although doable, I was gladly surprised that there is an open source creative commons licensed software that combines all of the features for pre-production into one software. Read the rest of this entry »
Matte Paiting
March 9th, 2007I love matte painting and although I’m not very good at it I like to touch up photography or composite them together into fantasy worlds and such. one of my favorite sites for this feature is MattePainting.org. I was doing some research on techniques for matte painting and such and found a link on 3D World (the September 2006) issue and in the article it said to practice using the clone tool – alot! So I decided to brush up on my painting skills (no pun intended). Read the rest of this entry »
New Theme
March 2nd, 2007I’ve been playing around with the idea of redoing my website for 2007 and have finally decided to go ahead and do it. I was started to get tired of the incoherent look and wanted to get back to my original white/grey/black/orange color scheme of when I first started as a freelancer. Read the rest of this entry »
BlenderNation Version 2.0
February 28th, 2007As a writer for BlenderNation you get to subscribe to the mailing list which basically means you get the news as it happens and before everyone else. A perk. Well, without giving out too much information, BlenderNation is planning a new look for the website. Some talk was going on in the mailing list and I offered my company’s services. Although he had already contracted another developer I decided to do a 30 minute mockup any way.
Sculpted with Blender 2.43
February 27th, 2007So, my last post about the sculpt mode and I finally got a little time to play around with all of the latest features and have completely mastered them including the sculpt tool. Yeah, right! 
Still, these new features are so cool that you can’t help but learn them!
Geneome.net Shout Out
February 24th, 2007I don’t usually do this but I feel like it is extremely deserving. Eugene Reilly of BlenderNation and Geneome has got to be one of the best Blender contributors/educators out there. I have been so impressed with his dedication to providing and maintaining such high quality video tutorials! Even with the unfortunate down time on his website he has compiled a list of formidable tutorials. So, here’s my kudos to Geneome! Good job Eugene!
Sculpt Mode
February 14th, 2007I was over at BlenderBuilds (which is a great project) and decided to download the latest Blender build (2.43RC3) and it was pleasantly surprised by the incredible new features! Among the best new features are Render Channels for Compositor Nodes, the new Sculpt Mode, and the Multires Settings. I know that there are alot of other but these are by far my favorites!
Blender Art Magazine #8 Released
January 24th, 2007Blender Art Magazine has done it again with their latest release (Issue #8) which is all about car modeling. This full featured magazine is really showing what a professional group the Blender community is. Keep up the good work guys: Read the rest of this entry »
Monster Web Gets A Face Lift
January 1st, 2007As many of my regular readers (all two of you!?) know that I work for as a Developer for Monster Web, Inc., a New Braunfels/San Antonio hosting company that specializes in CSS/XHTML web design and UNLIMITED hosting packages. Well, for those Blender heads who have come to love their services you’ll be glad to know that I’ve recently created a redesign for the company website!