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Using ZBrush MatCaps in Blender
Blender Newbies 3D Video Tutorials (Learn to Create 3D Graphics with Blender!) - 2010-05-31 23:29:00

In this tutorial we'll take a look at how to use ZBrush MatCaps in Blender, and where to find MatCaps.

This works with Blender 2.5 and 2.49.



Watch the video tutorial...

Resources

• ZBrush MatCap Library
• ZBrush MatCap thread at Blenderartists.org
• ZBrush forum MatCap Repository
• "kwout" Firefox Extension for cutting out webpage images

technorati tags: Blender3D, 3D, graphics, Blender tutorials

Adaptive Subdivision Sculpt
Blender Labrat - 2010-05-31 23:08:00

Yes its true, farsthary the man behind the SPH particles and alot of the volumetrics, has done it again :)

recently he announced that he was working on adaptive subdivision for sculpt like sculpt-Tri and even asked the man behind it if he can use it, ofcourse he said it was ok (way to go mate, thank you so very much)

for thos who don't know, adaptive subdivision will subdivide automaticlly areas of expected high detail, like if you were using a texture brush.

and this morning farsthary released an experimental patch of his work, abd i have to say, its amazing, it has a few problems to be sure (like infinatly subdividing) and it only subdivides after the strooke, which is understandable.

anyway time for me to stop yapping and show some pretty pictures :)





http://farsthary.wordpress.com/2010/05/31/unlimited-clay-in-the-wild/

and alot more info can be found here

http://farsthary.wordpress.com/

Three Layer SSS in Blender Demystified
BenSimonds.com - 2010-05-31 21:19:21

Something that gives a lot of people trouble when creating characters is implementing convincing subsurface scattering (SSS). Blender’s SSS shader comes with a wealth of options that make it easy to customise how light scatters under a surface, but also makes it tough to hit on what options exactly make for convincing skin. Using a [...]

Unlimited Clay in the wild!
Tinker Code - 2010-05-31 21:09:00

Hi all Finally the first public version of Unlimited Clay is out! I have committed it to my experimental branch and also I have released a patch that hopefully will be of the interest of the GSOC sculpting improvements project here’s the patch and here’s the branch: https://svn.blender.org/svnroot/bf-blender/branches/branch-farsthary/ It have several design decisions that should be discussed [...]

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