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Increased speed results

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Monday, February 1, 2016, In : General

Hey all!

Today I posted a solid article about increasing your render speed in Blender Render - so just to help you out, I put together a project that is just a burst and that will show you the difference when you apply some of what what's written to a render vs not doing so. So first the image without the applicable tricks applied:

Render time: 4 minutes

Image with speed-up tricks applied:

Render time: 31seconds

The main differences are:
- A little more noisy if you check it out at full resolution...
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Anime Style Sea in Blender series

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Wednesday, July 29, 2015, In : General

Hey all!

These have been such fun and such hard work, but I know you are gonna luv these!!

(Click to view on YouTube)

May these bring GOD absolute glory, because without HIM, not a single frame would be possible here!

Biggest thanx!
Huge thanks to GOD for helping me with this. YOU have helped me put this together, helped me polish it and package it so others can learn these great techniques as well! Thank YOU so much for every app that has been made freely available. Without YOU, none of this woul...

Turn that table eagle

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Tuesday, August 26, 2014, In : General

Hey all!

I know it's been eagle week here, if you will, haha, but here is a turn-table render of the final model:

Have a great day!!

Thank YOU!!!!!

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GOD's sense of humor is incredible!

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Monday, August 25, 2014, In : General

Hey all!

I'm working on an eagle model and GOD gave me two extremely funny images in the last steps. I hope you enjoy these as much as I have!

Having said this, HE's also serious about excellence and this how the eagle looks currently and it's progress:

When the head started taking shape

Basic body shape and wings

Very little body modification and feathering on the wings

Toon material on full view with subsurf and freestyle

Body done - needed eyes still

Still needs a third toe on each claw, but very ...

NPR

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Wednesday, July 16, 2014, In : General

Hey all!

As this has been something I've been working on for quite some time, I'm writing a post on the subject. So, here goes.

NPR is Non-Photorealistic Rendering. It is basically presenting recognizable objects in a specific style. For example, if you want to broaden the term 'rendering' to traditional art, basically all the stylistic movements (excl realism), fall into this category.

Just to link to a few examples:
- Figure 3-3 on this page
- The horse (first image you see on the page) here
- Ba...
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Welcome

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Thursday, January 16, 2014, In : General

Good day everyone!

Well, as you all know, I have a blog on the main page. This blog, however, will be only about this here site!

So, I hope you enjoy it and that you find some useful tips and hints and as always, please subscribe and like and link to, etc.!

Have a great one!!

Thank YOU!!!!!!

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