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Text in Blender 2.66a

Adam Heironimus — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 13:06:49 +0000

I was a bit stumped by the Text editor in Blender. It didn’t use any of the keyboard shortcuts that normal word processors use, and I couldn’t figure out how to change the text from saying “text” to saying what I wanted it to. I finally did, but I figured I could save some other people some trouble by posting a tutorial on how to do it.

I hope you learn something!

Modeling a Pencil in Blender 2.65a

Adam Heironimus — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 13:46:54 +0000

When I first started using Blender, I watched lots of tuotrials on the basics of Blender- how texturing, modelling, and lighting worked- but there were very few tutorials on modelling actual objects that were aimed at beginners. All the tutorials I found were aimed at people with prior experience in Blender, experience that I didn’t have at the time.

Fast-forwarding 3 years or so, I now have more Blender experience, but I know there’s always new guys coming into the Blender scene, so I figured I’d make this tutorial. In this tutorial I try to explain everything so that anybody, whether or not they have Blender experience, can model a pencil.

I hope you learn a lot!

The Solar System

Adam Heironimus — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 11:54:04 +0000

I haven’t made a Blender animation in a long time, and I figured I should start making some more before I got too rusty. Modelling the planets wasn’t very hard- I downloaded the textures of the planets from Nasa.gov, and the planets were just spheres that I shrunk or expanded to scale. I ran into a few minor difficulties making Saturn’s rings and the sun, but all in all this animation took about an hour and a half to create, and about the same time to render.

The heavens declare the glory of God!

Rotoscoping in Blender

Adam Heironimus — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 11:44:45 +0000

I said I’d post a tutorial on this, and I have!

Coruscant render

Adam Heironimus — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 13:28:07 +0000

One of the opening shots of our Star Wars movie will be a shot of Coruscant at night. I’ve been working on building it for quite a while, and have scrapped several versions of it, but I think I’ve finally gotten onto something.

The big black things in the picture are untextured buildings, and the smaller, textured ones were automatically made by the Suicidator City Generator plug-in for Blender. It’s not done, but it’s getting there!

Textured Droid Overseer

Adam Heironimus — Sat, 26 May 2012 11:08:29 +0000

Here’s a textured render of the droid that I posted about last week. It’s still not complete, but it’s getting there!

Droid Overseer

Adam Heironimus — Tue, 22 May 2012 14:31:14 +0000

I just started working on a model for the Droid overseer this morning. It’s still pretty rough, and it isn’t textured, but I’ll keep working on it in the days to come. The proportions will stay roughly the same, but I’m going to do a lot more work on the head, which is’t that great looking at the moment, so it’ll look more like a Star Wars droid than a robot that came out of some 1930′s sci-fi movie. Stay tuned for more updates!

Renders

Adam Heironimus — Thu, 17 May 2012 12:28:06 +0000

Hello everybody! The pre-production of our Star Wars movie is almost done, and I thought I’d show you some test renders of the models that I’ve made to use in this movie. They are all pretty basic, and need a good chunk of work, but I hope that you get a feel of the great (?) things that are to come!

Static tutorial

Adam Heironimus — Sat, 05 May 2012 11:45:09 +0000

I’ve kicked around the idea of making tutorials for quite a while, and I finally decided that I should start making some. I decided to make my first one pretty simple, so I made one on how to create a static tv effect. I hope you enjoy it, and I’ll probably be making more soon!

Isaac and his lightsaber (A.K.A. bat)

Adam Heironimus — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 19:50:04 +0000

Isaac, Paul and I did some filming a few weeks ago, and I’ve spent the time in between then and now editing and adding effects to the clips that we filmed. The effects weren’t any more extensive than in the Lightsaber movie we made last year, but it was, in ways, harder to do, since Isaac jumped around a lot more than John and I did, and made it a lot more challenging to rotoscope the lightsaber without making it look as if Isaac was being cut in half by his “lightsaber”. I think that it turned out well, and I hope that you enjoy watching it!