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Apple releases the new 2021 M1 iMac, but is it everything we hoped?
Yes, I am an Apple fanboy, let's get that out of the way right now. I have been using Macs personally, and then professionally for over two decades now (since before the first iMac even existed). Over that time I have experienced a monumental shift, from obscure...
Creating & 3D Printing The Luggage from Discworld
The Luggage from Discworld is a beloved character. Much like most Discworld characters to be honest, and there is a huge amount of them to draw from. Creating the Luggage in Blender 3D The first step of this project was to actually create the model. I wanted to get...
Ruislip Lido
Recently I helped with the Ruislip Lido website. The Hillingdon website had been taken down and was being migrated to a new platform, and in the interim, it was hard to find much of the information that people may need. The idea was simply to consolidate a lot of the...
IonCube Loader: The Guide (with help for problem hosts)
TL;DR If you are like me, then I was racking my brains trying to figure out what went wrong when WordPress said; "there was a Critical Error: IonCube Loader is not installed". Even though my PHPinfo file said it was installed fine. What gives?! Well, for...
3D Snowglobe for Pluscrates Christmas Card 2018
Yes yes, it's June, but I thought I should add last years Christmas card that we produced for Pluscrates crate hire, as I think it is pretty cute. When we first started brainstorming ideas for the Christmas card for Pluscrates, we wanted to try something a bit...
Master Plumber Logo Design
I work with a lot of local businesses in my 'day job' as a web designer/website management guy/website munchkin, and that job can vary a lot. One week will be uploading some new images or writing some new copy for a new page, or discussing ways to improve a...
Book Blog
A friend of mine has recently set up a book blog, which is great! I think any creative outlet is a good one! I have also been suggesting it for years, as the best blog to start is one you are passionate about. As an avid reader and writer, a book blog is by far the...
Quick Tip: How to Quickly and Easily Convert n-gons to Quads or Tris in Blender 3D
Older Blender 2.7X walkthrough is below, you can click here if you want. Your choice. ** Update ** The new and improved 2.8X walkthrough is here: It is pretty simple, to convert your mesh, simply go up to the top left menu where it says Face > Triangulate Faces. This...
Finn from Adventure Time – 3D ZBrush & Blender Sculpt
Finn from Adventure Time by gelous on Sketchfab What's this all about I hear you ask. Well, while trying to learn some Zbrush, I thought I would work on a competition over at Sketchfab. I chose to recreate Finn from Adventure Time in 3D. I had never used ZBrush, or...
GoDaddy Managed WordPress Review – Is it Worth It?
Ok, so, If I'm honest, we probably wouldn't be doing a review of the Godaddy Managed Wordpress package (Managed WP for short) if it all went perfectly well. When I decided to go with Managed WordPress, it was because I had been won over to the idea during a phone...
I Love Fantastic Beasts and Imaginary Creatures
For those that know me, this is no surprise - since I was a child, I was completely in awe of all manner of imaginary creatures, fantastic beasts, and legends that contained them. From the minotaur to dragons, to gryphons and everything in between, I was completely...
Mac Gets VR, But I don’t… Yet
Excited about the new and improved focus on high-end pro-level Macs and VR in general. As a lover of 3D, the graphics card has always been a bit of a drawback in the Mac, especially when it isn't really user upgradable. The idea of Thunderbolt eGPU's has actually got...
New Lego Blog!
I have been helping some friends set up a LEGO blog that will feature some reviews, news, and custom LEGO projects. Everything LEGO. We hope to make some original content, such as Vlogs and custom builds. We are currently working our the details, and they are picking...
Emergency Plumber Custom 404 Page Tutorial
This is a little bit of fun... I thought it would be nice to add a little custom 404 page, to pay them back for some awesome work, for their Emergency Plumber 365 website. Great guys from Harrow, so I thought it would be fun to make a little 3D, but retro...
Doctor Strange UK Premiere
I was recently lucky enough to be invited to the Doctor Strange premiere in the UK. We were treated to a surprise visit from Benedict Cumberbatch and a few of his fellow actors from the film. You can read my review of Doctor Strange here. A short video of the speech...
Revisiting the Train with Materials in Blender Cycles
This is a small update about the train that I had made before. I found it pretty fun to work on all the aspects of the train - I do enjoy a bit of steam punk for sure. But then as I started working on the detail it became more and more laborious. I am not a plumber,...
Odeon Limitless – is it a Good Deal?
Odeon Limitless is here, yes Odeon have finally joined the likes of Cineworld - who have previously offered an all-you-can-eat cinema. As the name suggest you can view as many films as you want every month for a fairly reasonable 17.99 per month (outside Central...
Balanced VS Unbalanced Cable, What’s the difference?
Do you often ask yourself what the difference between a balanced VS unbalanced cable is? Well so did I for a long time, in fact I went through a phase (no pun intended) of replacing a lot of my leads with balanced XLR cables, only to realise I had been replacing...
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