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Now we are going to start the process of texturing ( drawing an image on the surface of ) our jet. This first step may not need to be performed. We need to verify that our model has a material applied. By default one will be created for you, but if you are […]
Creating a game sprite: Texture mapping Part 1: UV Unwrapping explained Read More
Introduction Welcome to our first Programmer Art tutorial series. The ultimate goal in these tutorials is to instil a programmer with the capacity to create their own art assets, in this case using Blender. One thing I want to make clear right off the hop, this won’t teach you how to create *GOOD* art, […]
Programmer Art: Blender For Programmers Part 1 — The Introduction Read More
In this section, we are going to look at the fundamental aspects of modelling in 3D. If you have done any work in 3D, a lot of this will be old hat for you and you can safely skip ahead to the bottom for the Blender specific details. 3D Fundamentals At the […]
Programmer Art: Blender for Programmers Part 3 — Introduction to 3D modelling Read More
In this section we are going to cover navigating the Blender interface. This includes both selecting items, and controlling the application camera. It is important to realize that the app camera or view, is not the same as a scene camera. A scene camera is used if you are rendering your graphics to an […]
Programmer Art: Blender for Programmers Part 2 — Selection and Navigation Read More
One area of Blender that is often over looked, or people are downright unaware of, is its video editing capabilities. Hidden behind the 3D functionality we all know and love, under a layer of yes… sometimes confusing UI, lives a remarkably capable NLE ( non-linear editor ). In this tutorial I am going […]
Tutorial: Simple video editing using Blender 2.6x Read More
One of the nicest features of going with Blender is the fact that it is open source. One of the nicest facts of open source is you don’t have to wait for a vendor to release a new version, you can go get the cutting edge version at any time. That said, building Blender […]
Taking a walk on the wild side Read More