It's been one of those weeks. But I did manage to get a bit more progress made. I'm still procrastinating the torso, so I've been working on the legs. I'm sure having an actual arse and hips, when I finish them, will make the torso easier to judge. There's a lot of small inaccuracies I want to fix. I've been mainly using…
Totally agree! Stepping outside your comfort zone is exactly how you push your boundaries and level up. You can't be afraid of the learning curve or of growing. =) Honestly, I went through the exact same thing with my own dragon sculpt. I think I started over like 5 times because I just kept looking at it like, "ish, this…
Yeah, manufacturers pick the benchmarks in which they look good. But Blender should be a decent pick for a multithreaded performance comparison to their 8 module FX line (e.g. FX 8350 etc.), which as far as I remember was much slower than Intels 4 core CPUs in Blender (a i7 4770 was 50% faster in the BMW bench if I…
Wanted to drop a quick pipeline piece we did solving a data-bloat problem. We needed a reusable, highly deformed eye rig setup for a stylized project, but relying on geometry caching to bake out the lattice deformations was killing our data foot print. We’ve shared a quick, high-level teaser of the rig over on LinkedIn if…
How to make this type of controller with only one shape node and one transform node? Note: Display->shapes is checked in Outliner I would try parent command with shape flag but after checked the display->shapes in outliner it will show three nurbscircle shape nodes under one transform node. How to achieve underlying…
I've got a vauuuggee feeling like I've posted something about this before.. forgive me if that's the case. i've been thinking about it and i think art comes down to (or a large part of it is made up of) what i'd call "Modes". the basic premise is that there are different perspectives from which you can view any piece of…
A bit of a breakthrough on the next iteration for the reference material. If you use the CameraVector node (which I was using some of my dot products), as your normal, you get "free" retroreflectivity. This much better because it actually takes into account all scene lights, rather than relying only on a single directional…
Yes, look into Wire Parameters. You will need to write a little bit of code, but it is certainly possible. It's also updated in real-time (well, as close as your hardware can manage).