Wednesday, 11 December 2024

Focus Required....also...Blender School is open

Blender Bug Fix!

Horrah for corrective fixes, Horrah for Blender 4.3.1. 

Focus Problem

I'm darting around doing ten different things badly. If I were in the business of New Year's resolutions, getting things back into focus would be top of the list—and finding employment. 2025 has to be the year that I go out and make regular spondulicks. 

Triangle Canyon

Focus priority

1. A asked the True-VFX community's unofficial godfather, Berglmir, to set up a new community challenge to coincide with TT5's full release. It would be ruddy rude of me not to then submit a piece. This should be my focus. Water Challenge!

2. Something to sell!
I can put something into the Blender Market. Maybe a collection of Photogrammetry artifacts, a collection of terrain maps and textures cooked up in World Creator, a space vehicle model, or a cheap kitbash set. The ship elements kitbash was another project idea I floated, started, and then seemingly abandoned.

3. Keep learning, keep improving
I spend too much time repeating steps that just scratch a creative itch but don't push my Blender boundaries. That must change! On that, lets go back to....

Blender School

Last night, when I realised that I'd lost track of time and really needed to be asleep, in bed...I noticed that AskNK, the creator of Blender YouTube, had posted about another Humble Bundle tied to Blender. CGCookie's Core course - the entire run of training videos that covers all the...well, the core, going for a rock-bottom "stealing from blind grandma" amount of money.

Naturally, I threw more money at Blender. See https://cgcookie.com/p/core

As I did last year, I will watch, absorb, and respond to each video with a summary and set of key things to remember. I will do this right here, under the Blender School tag.

  1. Digital-Sculpting
  2. Mesh-Modeling 1
  3. Mesh-Modeling 2
  4. Lighting-Videos
  5. Materials-and-Shading
  6. Animation
  7. Texturing
  8. Rigging
  9. Physics 1
  10. Physics 2
  11. Physics 3
  12. Compositing

Substance Painter

I don't use this amazing tool enough. I need to get conversant with the workflow so that I can use it when I need it.

Maybe another Christmas image?


It's a low priority, but it could be fun. It could also be yet another drift from important things.


Last year...




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