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new plant tech

did some aesprite textures on this that ill put as a download in another post

particle file download

if you have any problems its because this is 3.6, just press A to select all objects in the scene, open a new file in whatever version you are using, and right click to choose "paste objects"

simply opening old files into newer versions of blender sometimes has issues but this is a nice fix around that.

particle tutorial

recorded this sometime last year and totally forgot it was in my folder!

posting the download for the project file in the next post for tier 3 folks.

ima also bring back the weekly modeling challenges! might start doing more twitch stream ;) get in thereeee blend up!

ASK ME STUFF

im tryna be on here more, sometimes ill peep the watch times on some of these videos and its like "average watch time: 40%"

i gotta remember that no matter what the numbers are, to keep posting! something any artist at any level should try to keep in mind :)

feel free to request videos and ask me super complicated questions. a lot of the videos and tutorials on here are direct responses to stuff people asked in the dms thats too complicated to type.

anyway h...

hello

thank you guys for sticking around

working on a video essay covering a lot of helpful info ive gathered over the years of freelancing and navigating this fucked up social media game

its been a super busy year for me, ive been only on the computer for work related things, and outside for the rest of my time. which feels great, but im really excited to be animating my own stuff again and coming back into the patreon zone

i might straight up start posting here more than inst...

throwaway from the self portrait renders

Pt 2

self portrait frfr.mov

this is really the hardest effort I put into a human model. im realizing the reason I couldn’t make better people before was literally not spending enough time on it. I’ll get around to editing down the footage of the process, but yea im trusting my process a lot more and just like not giving up when spending hours on 1 vertex placement lol.

I would like to take this base model and make a few more characters with it, the mesh has a shirt under the jacket and full body so ...

tree + plant asset pack

a few nature assets for yall to use however! the plants all share the same image texutre, try tabbing into edit mode and moving the UVs around to change the plant!

new self portrait progress

lost about an hour and a half of work due to not saving today :) REMEMBER TO SAVE

old timelapse

skin modifier + mirror + sub division on a single vert to model the guy, then some cable physics and all the rest is noise modifiers on a single keyframe. I think I explained this process on instagram a long time ago before i had a patreon.

im gonna do a video on all the different aspects in this video cause there are a lot.

this timelapse is so old that it was recorded on my macbook. found it sitting in the archives and thought yall would appreciate seeing it here :) 

working on new self portrait :)

need to rework the proportions a bit, really happy with the hair I can’t wait to share more when it actually looks good !

some loose photos in my library

bike modeling walkthru

going over some classic modeling tech and some advice on keeping things simple to progress faster!

day 3 of dev journey lol

learning godot makes me feel very blessed to know already know blender. getting these animations in here was a piece of cake compared to figuring out how to make them not interfere with each other lmao

s/o the homie who helped me for like 3 hours straight. will keep posting updates of this lil project on here <3

texture pack download

this is the DEMO texture pack, its a little chaotic but these are most of the textures i relied on off and on for the first couple years of blender.

they are all either AI generated, hand drawn, or otherwise copywrite free
((besides that one halflife backgroud lol))

first batch goes to you guys hopefully these are helpful if youre struggling to find usable textures!

try the stencil method i went over in the last video with these <3

TEXTURE PAINTING

bit of a new project show n tell and also running thru my process for texture painting landscapes like this, you should be able to apply these techniques to any surface!

more on texture painting soon :) welcome new people!

short film im never posting anywhere else

this was for the smartbomb screening in oakland last week, and i thought id share it on here! its never getting posted anywhere else.

its a silly one lol hope you enjoy!

GRAPH EDITOR TUTORIAL

complete breakdown of the graph editor basics, and how to add modifiers to create procedural animations

dont sleep on this tech! this can be a game changer for natural movement.

welcome newcomers! if you wanna see any specific video on a subject just leave a comment or DM me and ill get on it! more videos soon, this week has been brutal for me commission wise but the rains starting so ima b on here much more again.

thanks for stickin around it means the world <33 ...

show n tell

wip on that mountain guy lore, need to name him still. lots of good suggestions on IG lol. ill have a name before the next post, def gonna be some cool stuff goin on inside of this well.. might retexture the gears on here to make them more rusty or whatever but yeah heres some updates from the little bit of animating i got done today! 

gradient node project download

nodesnodesnodesnodes

good use of gradient texture + color ramp

got a dm about this and wanted to show off these nodes if you dont know them yet!

again if yall have a question about certain tech just shoot me a dm and ill make a video like this on whatever subject :)

curve project file download

curve project file with some simple materials good 2 go

curve techhh

stuck on animating something on a path? cant get the follow path thing to start when you want it to? look no further lol

also go over a tiny bit of timeline hacks and how to properly loop keyframes if you havent seen me talk about that before!

waterfall scene

been playing a lot of dark souls 1 and theres this waterfall in it that uses a cool UV mapping technique to make the streaks longer when the water is falling faster.

this is the node setup if youd like to try n recreate it!

weight painting Gen's new arm

if youre familiar with the whole weight painting process but are confused by it then you might find the 5:45 and 12:00 minute marks to be the most interesting.

for those new to weights, this isnt really a tutorial but more of a "watch me struggle with the hardest area of blender" video.

im not gonna lie, this was a really hard video to make. Ive tried to do this before, and i always just get burnt out in the middle of talking about what im doing because i keep encountering error...

rigid body deck of card project file

if you follow along with the video and still have issues with the rigid body stuff, go ahead and inspect this file and see whats settings you need to adjust!

card tricks!

lets make a simulation with a deck of cards!

subject: rigid body sim, and array modifier tech to offset UVS.

optimize your UI TODAY

get those tabs at the top of the screen set up in a way that works for YOU!!


when youre done dont forget to go to "file" and "save startup file" when youre set on how everything looks :)

blend up!!!

also tears of the kingdom drops tonight gamerz lfg  

timelapse

mech model im working on for a commission. Im really enjoying more hard surface modeling lately, using sub div modifiers first then applying it and making more adjustments after to put the really fine detail. cant wait to texture this thing! the reference came from midjourney AI.