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Friday, October 30, 2009

News: Monthly Challenges in the BlenderNewbies Forums

The members of the BlenderNewbies Forums have been conducting several different challenges over the past few months. It's a great way for participants to have creative fun and challenge their current abilities with Blender. The challenges are always friendly because it's not about the competition, it's about participating in a fun way to help strengthen your Blender skills. So, no worries about being "good enough".

I'll be posting news about these challenges in the future, so come on in and have some fun!

The winner of the previous challenge decides what the next challenge will be. The last challenge ended with a tie, so they decided who would come up with the next challenge idea. The current challenge is a Monthly Challenge called "Self-Portraits" :

Challenge Idea:
I thought it'd be interesting to see how each of the members that participate on these challenges look.

It doesnt have to be a photo-realistic and accurate render, it's open to your interpretation.

So you could model yourself as an animal, as a tree, as a jedi, or whatever you think that represents yourself, having, of course, some sort of similarity to your look.

...Good luck and I hope to see a lot of entries!


This challenge is set to end on November 29th. Check it out...


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Monday, October 19, 2009

Video Tutorial: Finishing the Low-Poly 3D Cartoon Hand



This is part 3 in the BlenderNewbies Hand Modeling Tutorial series. In this part, we'll pick up from where we left off in the blocking phase and move towards creating a low-poly cartoon hand.





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Sunday, October 11, 2009

News: Blender Community Toolbar Review

Ira Krakow has done a nice review of the Blender Community Toolbar, along with sharing some kind words (although maybe a little embarrassing) about BlenderNewbies. I appreciate the effort and kind thoughts. Thanks!



Ira also has a blogsite featuring many Blender tutorials, so be sure to check out his site at http://blender3dvideos.blogspot.com/


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Friday, October 09, 2009

Video Tutorial: Basic Blocking for a 3D Cartoon Hand



In this tutorial, we'll be taking a look at the basic blocking for modeling a 3d cartoon hand.

This is part 2 in the BlenderNewbies Hand Modeling Tutorial series.





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Monday, October 05, 2009

Video Tutorial: Basic Hand Structure for 3D Modeling



In this tutorial, we'll be taking a look at basic hand structure for 3d modeling. This is part of a Hand Modeling Tutorial Series, but we won't get into any modeling at this point.

We, first, want to take a look at what we need to consider when modeling a hand. These structural issues are relevant whether you're modeling a cartoon hand, a more realistic hand, or any type of stylized hand.





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