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Creating Realistic Dust Effects in Blender

By lesterbanks | Published: December 13, 2011

Tweet A look at how to set up effective dust simulation using particle systems in Blender and tweaking weights, density maps and particle textures to create realistic dust effects. CGI Trainer writes: This is a video tutorial on how we can set up an effective dust simulation,using particles systems ,wight painted particles density maps and [...]

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Creating a 3D Pixelstorm in After Effects with ShapeShifter AE Part 2

By lesterbanks | Published: December 12, 2011

Tweet Continuing the look at using the ShapeShifter After eFfects tool for creating some really fantastic animation. Nancy from Mettle demonstrates shape morphs while also exploring some of the features that are available in ShapeShifter for After Effects. Mettle’s ShapeShifter plugin for After Effects represents a true 3D environment using Mettles 3DNAE Mettle’s proprietary, hardware [...]

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Moving Edge Loops Along Their Non Existent Normals In Cinema 4D

By lesterbanks | Published: December 12, 2011

Tweet Joe Myers of SketchBook Inc. takes a quick look at moving something that would typically have no Normals (in this case edges) in Cinema 4D and moving them against a Normals direction. sketchbookinc writes: As edges don’t really have true normals, sometimes you need a little trick to move them in the normal direction. [...]

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Pointcloud rendering with Blender

By lesterbanks | Published: December 12, 2011

Tweet The Blender Simulation Site has posted a quick article on Point Cloud Rendering with Blender noting some better solutions for rendering. Check out the article for Pointcloud rendering with Blender here. Blensor.org notes that “This may not be the most common usage scenario for Blender but if you want to visualize pointcloud data coming [...]

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Cutting Edge Loops First steps in Box Modeling

By lesterbanks | Published: December 12, 2011

Tweet The great Glen Southern shows the process of where to place initial cuts and edges when using the “Box Modeling” technique to model a character.

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