I recently got to work on a local locksmith website (starlocksmiths.co.uk). If I find an excuse to put in a little 3D graphics, I will. I started work on creating some locks, keys, and stars as their name is Star Locksmiths. They already had a star they liked and...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
Almost… Steam Punk Train Thingymajig WIP
Was gonna enter the blender guru competition… was pretty close to finishing… Only had to finish blocking out, detail, materials, textures… yeah… close 😐 Oh well 😀
Blender Cycles Ice Material Test
I have been wondering how cycles would handle a material or object within another object. There was no real reason it wouldn't work, but I always found the process to be a pain in the a$%* with blender internal. I wanted an ice/glass/gemstone type material with two...
Luke B. Awesome Stuff n’ Things
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