Posts Tagged ‘montagestudio’
Tutorial Links Fixed and Many New Blender Tutorials!
February 13, 2010

Hello everyone!

It recently came to my attention that all of the links to my CG Cookie tutorials were no longer correct due to the move to Blender Cookie. All of the links have now been fixed and are active once more!

I would also like to draw your attention to http://blendercookie.com where I have many, many new tutorials that I have not gotten around to posting here. You will find tutorials on everything from modeling a car to a topology overview of the human head and much more. If you have liked my previous tutorials here on Montage Studio then I think you will like a lot of the new ones. So far I have published over 30 tutorials with Blender Cookie and so you can obviously see that many of them are missing from here.

car 300x123 Tutorial Links Fixed and Many New Blender Tutorials!

topology 300x128 Tutorial Links Fixed and Many New Blender Tutorials!

mechanic 300x123 Tutorial Links Fixed and Many New Blender Tutorials!

Enjoy!


Blender 2.5 Training, New Tutorials, Book Deal
September 8, 2009

Modeling a lowpoly Alien head with Retopo in BlenderHello everyone!

Man, seems like I haven’t updated this for a long time… but, that doens’t mean we haven’t been busy!

In brief, Jean-Sebastian is still marathoning his way through school. Ben is working away at his studio job and preparing to start on Project Durian. And I have been busy with more than I know what to do with! Rather than spread all of this out over a couple weeks, I am just going to do it one big blog post.

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Over the last year or so, I have had the honor of working quite closely with Wes Burke from CG Cookie on providing a Blender video tutorials. It has been a wonderful experience and we have had a lot of fun doing it. With the upcoming release of Blender 2.5 we are taking on our biggest project yet! I give you:

Introduction to Blender 2.5 Training Series

blender25 screen1 Blender 2.5 Training, New Tutorials, Book DealThis is a very exciting time to be involved with Blender and we have taken it upon ourselves to be one of the first to show you how to make full use of the new Blender 2.5. I won’t go into too many details here, check the site for that, but I can tell you that it’s going to be good!

Some of the topics you can expect to see:

  • Modeling a full character, complete with accessories
  • Modeling a scene, strewn with objects
  • Adding materials and textures to a vast array of objects
  • Animating walk and run cycles
  • Creating smoke simulations
  • Lighting day and night scenes
  • Post-processing with the node editor
  • Using the video sequencer as a video editor

blender25_screen1And these are just some of the topics. The training is intended to take you through the entire workflow of creating a character and scene; everything from modeling to texturing, animating to rendering. This series is huge! If this blurb has piqued your interest (or if you’re thoroughly bored by it) head on over to the dedicated site here for more info and to preorder!

We hope to release the first part of the series by mid, late October. It all depends on the development of Blender 2.5.

P.S. if you’re one of the first 20 to preorder it you get one of the first-ever CG Cookie T-shirts!

http://blender.cgcookie.com

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Modeling a lowpoly Alien head with Retopo in Blender

prayingmantis_screenshotThis video tutorial for Blender demonstrates how to use the retopology (retopo) tools in Blender to create a lowpoly model from a highpoly original. This is particularly useful for creating normal maps of high-res, sculpted models.

Watch video!

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Modeling a Character Head in Blender

prayingmantis_screenshotIn this written tutorial we go through the complete process of modeling a character heading from a concept sketch. The tutorial covers everything from setting up your background image, adding a mirror modifier, laying out the edgeloops, adding details, refining the mesh, and more.

Read it!

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Creating a Lightbulb – part 2

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!

Watch video!

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CGCookie.com Sponsorship
August 9, 2009

This is slightly old news, but I am pleased to announce that Montage Studio is now an official sponsor of www.cgcookie.com!

This looks good for us on the surface, but what does it mean for CG Cookie and it’s visitors? It means there will be a much larger flow of content from Montage Studio to the site in the form of tutorials, tips and articles. You can expect to hear more on that soon but for the mean time just keep an eye on the site!

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-Jonathan