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For Anime - Old Style Candle

November 21, 2016
Hey all!

Yes! Another For Anime fire tutorial:


GOD is so brilliant!!!

So, today I finally got to the editing of this tutorial and I'm super excited about it and I hope you are too! This tutorial assumes you know quite a bit about Blender, because I time-lapsed as much as possible to keep the video as short as possible. For example, the animation process for the character took me well over an hour, not to mention the modelling and texturing of the other elements that have nothing to do with the fire or it's animation and compositing. I love straight to the point tutorials that skip things that aren't needed, so I seriously hope you enjoy such a video too! :D

So, because I haven't done a Cycles tutorial for this, I do want to consider you guys too. This morning, after getting up, I started working on a duplicate of the camp fire scene in Cycles and I am happy to report that you can indeed achieve the same results - in fact, you can check out this video:



I did change a few things in the sense that not all the same textures that are in Blender Render are in Cycles and they don't manipulate in the same way. I also changed the point of the fire to be more toony for the Cycles scene as opposed to the softer one I did in the tutorial. Both are great results and both can get the toon result, you pick which you want to do! :D
In the description you can find out how to achieve it - again, those kinds of instructions assume you know your way around Blender to a fair degree.
If you are new to Blender and Cycles, and you luv toon shading, then you can check out this playlist!

Biggest thanx to GOD for helping me with this. Without HIM, none of this would be possible! :D

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Have a great one!!!

Thank YOU!!!!!!
 

For Anime - Lightning and Electricity

October 3, 2016
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That time again, and wow is it happening a lot more often than I expected it to, hahaha. This time, like the title says, we're talking about electricity! The thumbnail pretty much gives it away. Check it out:


GOD is so awesome!!!

This one has a curious story. Infamous Otaku had asked me if I took suggestions and that if so he can suggest some tutorials. Some were basic, but some have little to no work around.
Here are his suggestions:
- Eye color change
- Fireball
- Thunderbolt


 - Eye color ...

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Caustics - Not really

September 21, 2016
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Another exciting day for me! Another tutorial! :D

In this tutorial, you guessed it, we're covering how to make caustics in Blender Render. Yes, they are not physically accurate, but they are very stylized! Check it out!


GOD is so good!!

Now, obviously, these can be adjusted to suit your project. You can even change the texture. The whole goal of this is to show you that you really can apply this in Blender. GOD had me learn this this week and I am so thankful that I get to share it so so...

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Speedily

August 20, 2016
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Many times we feel extremely overwhelmed by our situations and it's tempting to become bitter toward GOD, but it just makes things worse. Now your situation is bad, and you have a lousy attitude which makes you feel worse and you feeling worse, makes you act bad and so you situation gets worse and you get more bitter and so on.

GOD loves us so HE's shown us that HIS joy is our strength. It's not a vague concept that is too hard to grasp - it's the result of following the HOLY SPIRIT's ...

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Sound panning is not broken

June 23, 2016
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I have to be honest, I also thought that it was broken, but I am so glad GOD did not let me leave it there. I felt prompted to google it. There is always a chance that it may be a bug or whatever, BUT, it was just lack of clarity. For a program as advanced as Blender, tutorials are a must!

So, in the spirit of bringing you tutorials by GOD's grace, we are going to talk about Audio Panning in the VSE (Video Sequence Editor).


Audio options in the N panel, VSE.

Firstly, if you're reading th...

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Sun glare time

May 27, 2016
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GOD is good! For more keep reading - for the tutorial - well here it is, haha:


(GOD IS AWESOME!!!)

I am honored that GOD would use me to make these and I don't take it for granted. I realize that I have, but I am truly amazed that HE uses me for this.

The main problem with this type of sun glare is the hexagon. To get a hexagon shape from a round sun was the wrong question, as HE showed me. You can easily do it the other way around, like in the video. The extras in this video includ...

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Make Human blog post

May 18, 2016
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In the last post, I got to share with you guys the finished Esther 6 video (wow, GOD is awesome!) and I hope you guys enjoyed it!

Now, of course, there are people reading this, that are curious about how to make these things in the first place. As GOD would have it, HE arranged for me to write a post on the official Make Human community website so you can get a very good scope of what goes into a short and specifically, characters from Make Human!

Check it out!
http://www.makehumancommun...
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Esther 6 Complete

April 19, 2016
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Now, most of you who follow this blog, has probably subscribed to the YouTube channel and gotten the e-mail, but, I felt lead to share this here specifically, so I believe there's someone here that has not yet gotten to see it.

Around the 22 of November last year (2015), GOD told me to make a new Bible animation and this time it has to be chapter 6 from Esther. And I did not want to, hahaha. Really did not want to. HE has me on another project that is on hold at the moment, until the n...
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Manuel Bastioni Lab 1.1.0

March 9, 2016
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Some of you may be aware of Manuel from the Make Human project. He's quite the modeler and is no stranger to producing high quality human models. In using this skill, he put together a new character creation add-on for Blender, which stands separately from Make Human, called Manuel Bastioni Lab 1.1.0 (current version).

What makes this one unique is that it's directly in Blender and it supports a shojo anime style - classic and modern.
Personally, I'm not a big fan of the shojo style, be...
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For Anime Tutorial series 1 - Water Reflections

February 8, 2016
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I have had this on my heart for quite a while, to do a series on modelling for anime style backgrounds. In this one, we look at Water Reflections:


(Very short and very straight forward)

Now, this is also a very simplistic way of doing these sort of reflections. In fact, this is just when water flows in a straight line. If you have water that goes around bends, you need to adapt this and unwrap your river and toss out the empty and use the texture offset options. To show you how this wor...

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