How to Make a tire with your hands, and a little bit of love

As it happens, almost every vehicle needs a tire, My Subaru model did, so I found some tuts, and built myself a tire. I watched this tut at blendercookie on how to model a tire, to get an idea on how to build one of these things.

It turns out you start out flat, mash together some modifiers, apply a few of them, bend em' around a curve and extrude out the sides, and you end up with a modelled tire. Or thats how I built this tire anyway.

The Trees are Dancing! Oh Really?

Yes! Really! Quite a while ago I modelled and rigged a palm tree, thus allowing you to make the tree DANCE! Well, this rig I made for the tree makes its trunk extensable so maybe its more viable to use this to just duplicate and pose multiple trees, heh. I got the idea to post this because I was browsing blendercookie.com and saw a tut on modeling a palm tree, sparked my memory and well, you can go have your shot at making palm trees dance.

A break from the current, A break into the past!

So, it is March and I haven't posted this month yet, so here it is finally. There hasn't been much new artwork getting done due to having a certain windows RC operating system head into the land of "shutdownevery2hours". Been doing some OS 'experiment' have installed linux and have been trying to make things work. Well things were working, until yesterday, it seems i break stuff quite easily there. On a brighter note, I cooked some bacon today, now the stove is all splattered.

Dream Like Space Duck: He Can Fly!

Alrighty, here is a character that came into being, I think just for the fun of it, I don't really remember, but I think he started just before the BWC (Blender World Cup) 2009 came around and took up all my modeling time. Its just a side project and I code named him 'duckpound' hehe.. don't ask me why. But anyway I thought I would share this creatures love for flight and his great outlook on life.

Matcaps, no need for lights...

Matcaps, that is what they are called in Zbrush anyway. It is a pretty nifty way to light objects without needing any lights, seems like a useful technique for sculpting.

Thanks to the tutorial at BlenderArtists forum (note: there is a better way to implement this than the first post suggests, just go down a few posts.) and a tip off in the irc channel #smc I spent a day figuring out how to set them up in Blender 2.5, created a small matcap image library.

Explosion! More free wallpapers for the fun of it

Hey y'all, I have a new FREE dual screen and widescreen wallpaper. Anyway, after seeing the post about speed painting by David Revoy on the Durian blog I downloaded a few of the free applications he was showing. He was using Alchemy. I played with it for a while and came up with an explosion. Fun experimental wallpaper, I don't know if it will fit best as a wall paper, but screens are a good place to display digital art. Enjoy :D

2.5 Ninja?

Here is the first model I have decided to build entirely in Blender 2.5 as it develops... interesting ride so far. Some problems I have run into have been not having all the modeling tools that 2.49 came with... but that aspect is coming along nicely. When i started modeling the shrinkwrap modifier worked properly, currenly it does not work if an underlying mesh has a subsurf modifier, so the leg wrap cloth looks kinda not right. Hope Tyler is alright with me posting this here ;)

Well, not finished yet, but you can see it

Well so far I haven't finished the piece because the lighting is tricky to set up, needs more tweaking. Anyway here is a preview image, the lighting is really over exposed.
Its kinda too bad I ran out of time due to moving right when the deadline came up, this would have been a fun entry :D

My BWC 2009 Progress

Sitting in the shadow of the mammoth fur tutorial release, (haven't gone to check it out yet) so this is basically my attempt at cow fur.

Just note I still have to tweak a bit. The color, the specularity and the foot textureing. I still have to add some bump textures as well.

p.s. I have less than two weeks to pull the whole scene together, wish me luck :)

More frequent updates occur here at my Blender Artists thread.

Free Wallpaper: Oh! That Wasn't such a good idea!

Hey! I am back here with some fresh content. A free desktop wallpaper in two sizes 1440 x 900 and 1024 x 768. If you would like more sizes just leave a comment.


1440 x 900


1024 x 768