Creating a Cycles Fire and Smoke Shader Currently (as of Blender 2.71) the Cycles Rendering Engine is lacking a default fire and smoke Shader when utilizing Volumetrics Rendering. As a […]

Creating Semi-Transparent, SSS, Veiny Wing-Skin The Cycles Rendering Engine in Blender has many unique qualities that tend to set it apart from other Non-Realtime 3D Renderers such as the ability […]

Creating a Generic, Night-time Skin Shader The obvious advantage of a Generic Shader is in the ability to re-use the Shader but still maintain applicable customization properties, such that a […]

Creating Normal Maps High Frequency Detailing differentiates from High Resolution Sculpting as the process will generally require a completed Medium to High Resolution Sculpt in which the model’s topological structure […]

Retaining Quality and System Integrity As the models in this image will be used for a still frame, the topology contributing to their appearance will not require deformation for the […]

AO Maps Baking with Dark Islands There is a particular problem with regards to baking AO maps that seems to come up quite regularly in my projects. This problem is […]

Modelling and Sculpting I’ve resumed work on the image I started last year and as I mentioned I would be posting more about the process. When I was making this […]

Inspired by MakeHuman I couldn’t resist sharing this post with you of a WIP image from my latest project in Blender and MakeHuman. As you can see the image is […]