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Character Modeling: Creating a Cartoon-Style Groundhog – Part 02
Blender Cookie - 2012-01-23 23:47:14

Hello and welcome to part 2 of the this character modeling tutorial series for Blender 2.6!

This character modeling tutorial series is on modeling a cartoon, ground hog character in Blender 2.6. In this tutorial David Ward takes you through the complete process of creating a cartoon character model, including all the steps, hotkeys, tools and more. A few topics and tools covered include: box modeling, mesh editing, proportional editing tool, mirror modifier, extrude, particle fur, and much more.

What is covered

In part 02 of this character modeling tutorial for Blender 2.61, we make use of the box-modeling technique to model the remaining parts of our cartoon ground hog character. We begin by starting to model the torso, arms, hands, and fingers. Next we move on down the character to model the legs, feet and toes. This tutorial makes constant use of many modeling tools inside Blender 2.6.

Here is a preview of the final result from this section of our cartoon, groundhog character modeling tutorial series:

Up Next

The third part of this character modeling tutorial series will cover UV unwrapping the ground hog model, painting the diffuse texture map and setting up the material. Then it will go on to cover the complete process of adding particle based fur, including the styling and rendering.

Redefining 3D Typography and designing 3D Type in Blender
BlenderNation - 2012-01-23 22:00:33

Two interesting articles about typography in Blender by Blender Sushi. Blender Sushi writes: So, what is really 3D TYPOGRAPHY? In my own words, 3D typography is an arrangement and composition of...

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1929 Ford Model A Tudor Sedan
BlenderNation - 2012-01-23 18:00:30

By Paulo Ricardo S. Ribeiro (Ricardo 3D).

BLAM – Geometry camera matching add-on
BlenderNation - 2012-01-23 14:00:34

Per from Stuffmatic.com released an add-on for Blender which provides you with the tools to do a geometry camera matching over an existing still image similar to what SketchUp can do. It features manual and automatic matching tools as well … Continue reading →

Tutorial: How to create a Anamorphic Lens Flare in Blender 2.61
BlenderNation - 2012-01-23 10:00:11

Micah Austin uploaded an interesting approach to creating anamorphic lens flare effects with Blender’s internal renderer and the compositor system using geometry and textures. Because this is hand made it is very flexible, can be customized to your needs and … Continue reading →

Arkeos Chronicle - RPG 2D
Vimeo / Blender 3D - 2012-01-23 09:52:26

A new video of my game RPG in developpement.
It's an Alpha version (0.2816)

Images : made with Blender.
Dev : made in purebasic.

Cast: blendman

Tags: Arkeos Chronicle, game, blender, purebasic and rpg

Developer Meeting Notes, January 22, 2012
BlenderNation - 2012-01-23 08:24:27

Blender 2.62 is creeping up, the new Carve Boolean library and Cycles importance sampling are now in trunk and Cycles Renderlayer/passes are almost done. BMesh is progressing well and is scheduled...

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An introduction to blam, the Blender camera calibration toolkit
Vimeo / Blender 3D - 2012-01-23 02:23:34

An introduction to blam - The Blender Camera Calibration Toolkit.

See code.google.com/p/blam/ for source code and further information.

Music by soundcloud.com/leoparden

Cast: Stuffmatic

Tags: Blender, camera calibration, camera mapping, projection mapping, camera, photo, calibration and blam