Last week of term

I break up from my part-time job at the end of the week. It's then Blender all the way down...well mostly. We have a family holiday coming up, but I intend to be very productive over the summer break. I might even make some money again using Blender.

Blender 4.5 is now official

After a good month of testing 4.5, it has now entered general availability. So far, so good. It's fast and ...mostly stable. I suspect that a number of my commonly used addons will require some updates. 

Recent Work

A planet map...a bit of a change

Lens Sim practice

A depth of field test

Suddenly

I have a new production task on the animation project. I need to provide a terrain for the previs animation. Interesting!

A work in progress. Some changes have come from the director, but I had a good time confirming that the workflow is effective:

1. World Creator sculpt.

2. Export EXR heightmap.  
3. Blender/Import the EXR into True Terrain 5. Create the terrain material.

4. Bake the required terrain resolution, then bake the material maps. 

5. Decimate to reduce resolution for production