Monday, April 18, 2011

Blender Foam Tutorial Online




I finally finished piecing together my tutorial on how to make the foam used in "Bath Time!"
This is my first tutorial ever, so it might be a bit hard to follow, but it truly is everything you need to know.

The guys over at Blendernerd have been gracious enough to host the tutorial and are interested in me doing more for them in the future. I can't wait to have the time! I hope everyone enjoys it and gets to learn something!

***EDIT***

Sample .blend file can be found HERE.

Cheers!

***DOUBLE EDIT!!!***

My tutorial has been featured on Blender Nation! I hope I start seeing the technique pop up in projects soon!

LINK

Sunday, April 10, 2011

Bath Time!



It's been a while since my last post or finished project, but I've finally got something new. The high resolution image can be seen HERE.

I spent the honest majority of my time on this project trying to figure out a good way of making bubble foam, which got very frustrating at times. In the end, I think I did a pretty decent job and I've even been asked to make a short tutorial on it. It's nice to know that something you've done is appreciated and It'll feel just as good (I hope) to help other artists by passing on what I've learned from this project.

This was rendered via Blender internal, total render time was around 14 hours, the only post processing I used was to crop the image, clean up some small artifacts, and add vignetting. Everything else was done with Blender's composite nodes.

All in all, I'm pretty happy with how it turned out, but as always I'd love feedback, ESPECIALLY on things I could have improved on. Thanks for looking!