So I'm back from a weekend full of nerdiness, beer and blender! It really was fantastic to see all those familiar faces again!, meet some great new people from all over the globe. Saw and met some cool people... like the doctors: also this bunch: Got some great belgian chocolate from Midge aka The Mantissa … Continue reading #bcon17 – report
Holy moly, i was hoping for something this cool for some time, I'm glad someone thought of the same, and did it, and It seems pretty wel thought off. This addon is a set of tools for easily creating, symmetrizing and editing shape of your armature's bones. Even though coming from other software where the … Continue reading Addon: Bone Widget
Did you like my Animation Nodes tutorial?, definitelly check out Jimmy Gunawan's site, It's filled with experiments on Animation Nodes and also in general on his transition from other sofware to blender. One great thing I've found while reading his posts is that he is very thorough and he not only posts one way to do stuff … Continue reading Blog: Blender Sushi
I've been rigging a lot lately, and I've found some invaluable add-ons for the task at hand, I'll probably write a post later on related on how I would go about rigging a character. In any case, this is one very tiny add on, that adds 3 definitely great options to the Shape Keys panel … Continue reading Addon: ShapeKey Helpers
This is something I've been wanting for a while, and didn't realize it was in blender for some time now, though it has been recently rewrote, or fixed at least, and even if I'm bugging the developer to improve it, she won't and that's okay, she's got a lot to do, and I'm just an … Continue reading Add-on: Bone Select Sets
This add-on, MUST use if you're using Cycles, it makes it's workflow soooo much faster, some of these options should be default blender behavior, at least these four that I'm going to mention, I know there are a ton more, but I use the add-on just for these four. Check em out! The first one … Continue reading Add-on: Node Wrangler
This is one of the coolest add-ons... nah not really, It's still a great add-on and it helps speeding up your rigging workflow quite a lot. The way it works is simple. First you have to select your geometry that has the shape keys and then you select the bone (in pose mode) that you … Continue reading Add-On: Shapekey Driver Constraint
Hey guys!, we'll I've been personally talking to Jacques Lucke and he has been helping me understand Animation Nodes and I'm committed to share everything I learn from him in little tutorials that will help us out building a community of users that will benefit from this powerful addon. Below there is the written tutorial … Continue reading Tutorial: AN – Solar system
I'm betting most of you at least have heard of it, well animation nodes is a Visual Programming suite, don't be scared you don't need to code, It's a bunch of geniuses that have put together a set of nodes for you to drag and drop and animation code just like that. Here is a … Continue reading Add-on: Animation Nodes
First, a "boomsmash" is an OpenGL render that grabs images from the view-port and spits them as fast as it can to the hard drive, to the people that comes from Maya this is known as playblast. It's specially useful to preview animation when they can't be watched real-time in the viewport itself, so in … Continue reading Add-On: Advanced Boomsmash
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