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Blender 3d

GixGidea — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 23:21:21 GMT

Hello everyone.
I've been using Blender for a little less than a year now. The program is an open sourced and free to use 3d creation suite. It can be used in each of the major platforms (Windows, Mac, and Linux). It has the ability to animate, sculpt, create, and much much more. However, I feel that I'm still quite a novice.

This year, I've put together some images, and people said that they tried blender, but found it too confusing. I have such respect for this program, that I thought I would start a thread where people could ask and answer questions about Blender. Part of this is a fishing expedition to see if anyone else is currently using blender, and the other part, is my desire to share what I've learned with others.

Currently, I'm working on a tutorial about the sculpting abilities of Blender and I will post that when I have time to finish it. Unfortunately it will be during the summer. (Sorry). I hope that I'm able to create a tutorial that will help to take some of the fright of the rather "scary" interface... although, It's really not that bad.

If anyone is interested in working within a 3d environment, and you're like me (without extra money) then I would highly suggest you try out Blender. You can get it here (www.blender.org).

(The next post will contain links and information that I have found very helpful in my quest to learn Blender, and I'll add to this thread as soon as I find, try, and/or learn new things about Blender)

Luxology Modo

L'EnfantDuSamedi — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:31:00 GMT

I'm just wondering if anyone else has worked with this wonderful 3D program yet? I'm primarily a 2D artist, working with sequential art for the most part, but have found a love for 3D(bordering on obsession according to my boyfriend) with Poser. My need to create clothing and highly imaginative characters of my own led me to trying to find a 3D program I could understand. I tried a number of them, from 3D Studio Max to Lightwave. Zbrush came close but turned out to be too much sculpting for me to do much with it.

And then I found Modo. I cannot sing it's praises enough! It keeps enough of the 3D aspect of the other programs without all of the confusion and the hands-on aspect that I liked about Zbrush and that, as a 2D artist, I'm more used to in an imaging program interface. I've been able to do so much between all my programs with Modo being the link that connects them all that sometimes I can't believe that I'm actually making what I've been working on. I've reached a whole new level as an artist and I'm even more excited to work on more!

I really have to spread the word about it and wondering if anyone else loves it as much as I do.

Google Sketchup

Evil Robot — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:59:03 GMT

I read a page or two in a book about google sketchup. It said you can import paths made in photoshop and extrude them in google sketchup. Anyone know how to import Photoshop paths into Google sketchup? Or do you have to buy the pro edition to use this feature?

Sculpting tutorials for 3D Coat

WrakeDesign — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:41:01 GMT

Hi guys, Thought you would all like to share my sculpting channel on Vimeo

HERE

3DCoat ver 3.0 released.....

kenmo — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:53:54 GMT

Just received an e-mail this morning that ver 3.0 is now available...

I'll be upgrading tonight when I return home from work.... And the upgrade price is a real bargain...

http://www.3d-coat.com/news3_0.html

3D Coat - the next ZBrush competitor????

kenmo — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:15:31 GMT

I'm hearing rumblings on other forums about 3D Coat being the next ZBrush competitor...

I downloaded the 14 day demo and was quite impressed by it... It's price is only $140.00 US!!!!!

http://www.3dcoat.com/

Seems to be quite easy to use....

Meshlab - free 3D app

kenmo — Mon, 04 May 2009 14:57:52 GMT

http://meshlab.sourceforge.net/

what a good 3d program?

The Gurch — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 16:23:56 GMT

Howdy im pimping up my PC, it should really be a beefy machine soon, plenty of processing power and mad memory at my disposal...sooooo i was thinking of dabbling in a 3d modelling program. Havent the faintest of what is what. Which would be the best recommendation for a novice here? Something basic and esy to grasp but and gives stunning results with oput too much of a learning curve. I am giving consideration to getting MUDBOX. Yes or No?

Maya

Mwah — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:52:20 GMT

hey!

Just downloaded Maya and it is soooo confusing! :)

does anyone know how to bind joints to skin in Maya? And how does the skeleton work?

If anyone can help>> im very confused :P

thankyouu!

AutoDesk acquires SoftImage

jonnyray — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:06:43 GMT

AutoDesk has signed an agreement with Avid Technologies to acquire SoftImage including the XSI software.

Press release: http://pressreleases.autodesk.com/index.php?s=press_releases&item=485%3C%2Ftd%3E

Any tips on GOOD Maya tutorials?

jimsvanberg — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:33:46 GMT

Hi I'm quite new to Maya, and I am looking for GOOD tutorials on modelling and texturing for games. And by that I mean tutorials that you can recommend. Finding tutorials for Maya is NOT the problem, finding good ones is.

So if you know of any tutorials that maybe you have used youself and would like to recomend, please let me know ok :)

Truespace 7.6 FREE!!!

banjaxedmdt — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 13:47:00 GMT

I was just mooching around the magical interweb and tripped over Caligari currently giving away Truespace 7.6 for the exact same price as something you don't pay for (that's nothing in case you were wondering). You have to sign up to their site unless you happen to be a member there already. The download files include the package itself (130mb), manual (51mb), and a load of video tutorials (132mb). Never been a huge fan of Truespace, but it's free so worth a play with.

Toddle along to: http://www.caligari.com/default.asp

If there's a catch I haven't found it. But then I only found this a few minutes ago and I'm still downloading... still downloading... yes, a bit longer...

Hexagon 1.2 FREE

kenmo — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:54:14 GMT

Hexagon 1.2 free in 3D World #107

Single human mesh but number of non connected joints.....

jaganpon — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 09:14:33 GMT

Hello friends , i created a human character using maya 8.5, i saw some refernce in net for rigg my character i saw in number of rigged model
the leg joints are not connected with pelvis.... but all the bones are attached with mesh... i tried but only one sequence of bone i can attach with the mesh.... i think its easy to animate if the all the joints seperatedlike splines, hands, legs... give me the tips or solution and my character to get some active movements...... thanks pals..........

Blender Noob

Starfox — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:37:02 GMT

So, I've finally got around to having a mess with Blender, so this is my first build. It's nothing much, I know, but it's a start I'll throw stuff up here every now and again as I progress.

Maya texturing tutorials wanted

jimsvanberg — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 14:38:38 GMT

Hi!

I am looking for good tutorials for texturing in Maya, the most important things are diffuce, specular and normal maps. If you know about anything you think is worth recommending, please, please, please share them with me, it is kinda urgent

Wings3D - excellent and free box modeller

kenmo — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:01:59 GMT

I've been a fan of Wings3D for several years. The app is one of the most intuitive 3D modelling apps out there and it's free. It's constantly being improved by it's developer...

It runs on Windows and Linux....

Give it a try... you won't be dissappointed...

http://www.wings3d.com/

3ds max

Geir — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:52:28 GMT

I've used Zbrush 3 for a while, and find this to be an exellent 3d app. But I've resently discovered 3ds max, and see that this has a few features I could find useful. The only problem is that I can't find any beginners tutorials, so I have to use the advanced ones. And thats hard for a noob. Do anyone know of any and where to find them?

Aren't there any other 3D apps in the world?

Hermit — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:12:15 GMT

I'm sure I've heard of other 3D apps You've got the main ones on there like C4D and ZBrush (and those low end ones! ) But there's got to be one or two that haven't been mentioned.

Isn't there an app called something like 3DS "Mox" or something? And another one called Mooya? (lol)

I've never heard of them, but I'm sure they have one or two users out there!

Mudbox !

Synaesthesia — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:08:36 GMT

Well, it's not Zbrush, it's not Maya...it's also nice and compact once you take away the videos.. I was wondering if anyone had used this program, and what kind of results they got? It's my first stab at 3d anything, so I'm still making mucky messes. :)

Softimage ?

KingGeorge — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:14:24 GMT

Hi guys i am taking 3d animation class at local community college. The program we will be learning is Softimage. Are there any people on the forum familiar with it. I have not herd of it b4. Seems like 3d software is biz is in some wired flux and i fear I might be learning the wrong program.

Hexagon?

kenmo — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 19:33:04 GMT

Any Hexagon users here?

Google Sketchup question

philby — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:51:36 GMT

This seems like the right place for this. Sorry if it's not.

In Sketchup, in the new file that comes up first time you use it, there was a little man, and ground/sky thing going on so you could see where the horizon was and stuff. Every new file I've started after that hasn't had it though, and I'd quite like it back because it made it easier to see where stuff was. Is there a way to get it back?

EDIT - Managed to find it myself.

Maya Lesson Videos

iamjasonwelsh — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 23:16:33 GMT

Hello everyone my name is Jason Welsh and I have been a long time fan of this magazine. So I'm going to share a few videos I have produced for a Class I teach called commercial Art and media in Jackson Michigan. There I teach everything From Maya to Zbrush and Now Digital Painting. I use the videos to run workshops or just use them as a backup incase a student misses a lecture.

So I will post these in the forums under the software used.

Not all videos are free but ya enough to help the beginner break into digital art.

www.houseoftutorials.com has the lesson files look for the links at the top of the page.

For Maya

http://www.veoh.com/series/houseofmaya

http://www.veoh.com/series/mayaworkhouse

SketchUp model export

3denthusiast — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 07:32:34 GMT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bcQOKpT1xk

Can I export my SketchUp models to this tool iClone?

I got SketchUp 5.0 only (free version)