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Creating a Lightbulb – part 2
September 8, 2009

prayingmantis_screenshotIn this follow-up video tutorial to the Lightbulb Modeling tutorial, we look at how to take our model and a basic scene and apply various materials in order to get a semi-realistic effect. This tutorial covers the creation of materials for plastic, glass, metal, and a lit-up bulb!

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Creating a Praying Mantis in Blender

prayingmantis screenshot Creating a Praying Mantis in BlenderIn this video tutorial we will look at modeling a cartoon style praying mantis in Blender. This tutorial covers the entire modeling process, based from a sketch, and then goes to look at some basic materials and rendering.

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Animating a Gear Train in Blender
August 13, 2009

geartrain screenshot Animating a Gear Train in BlenderIn this video tutorial we are going to look at how to animate a gear train in Blender with constraints, such that all the gears follow the lead of a single empty. This technique offers a much cleaner system with less margin for error.

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Modeling a Light Bulb in Blender
August 11, 2009

lightbulb screenshot Modeling a Light Bulb in BlenderIn part 1 of this two part tutorial series we are going to look at modeling a light bulb within Blender. This tutorial covers everything from modeling the bulb, the threads, inside of the bulb and more.

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Modeling and Texturing an Old Barrel in Blender
June 22, 2009

woodbarrel screenshot Modeling and Texturing an Old Barrel in BlenderMaking use of multiple modifiers and projection painting this tutorial covers the entire process of modeling and texturing an old, wooden barrel in Blender.

Textures used in this tutorial may also be downloaded at http://www.cgtextures.com

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Texturing a Head with Projection Painting
June 19, 2009

projectionpainting screenshot Texturing a Head with Projection PaintingWith the release of Blender 2.49 comes the ability to stencil images onto your model via projection. This tutorial goes through the process texturing a head model with projection painting.

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Retopology Tools in Blender
June 18, 2009

retopo screenshot Retopology Tools in BlenderIn this written tutorial we take a look at how to use Blender’s retopology tools to create a low-poly version of a high-poly mesh.

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Making Clothes with the Shrinkwrap Modifier

shrinkwrap screenshot Making Clothes with the Shrinkwrap ModifierBlender’s modifier system allows you do a lot of cool things, this time around we make use of it to model clothing with the Shrinkwrap modifier.

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UV Unwrap a Human Head

unwrappingahead screenshot UV Unwrap a Human HeadBlender’s UV tools are some of the best in the industry, this tutorial shows how to make use of them and unwrap the UVs on a human head.

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Using Stencil Maps to Blend Materials

stencilmaps screenshot Using Stencil Maps to Blend MaterialsUsing Blender’s Materials nodes this tutorial describes how to use a stencil map to blend two seperate materials. In this case mixing a simple grey shader with a mutated, gnarly shader!

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