Tools

Hard Surface Texture Painting Extra – Peeling Paint

I’ve seen this effect so much in Substance Painter and figured out a way to achieve the same thing in Blender. Paint peeling from the edges of worn away areas that you can paint in real-time. It adds an extra touch of detail and realism for your really worn, beat-up objects!

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Free Hard Surface Models

This year I did a lot of practicing with hard surface modeling, so I thought I’d offer these models for free. You’re welcome to use them in whatever you want. They’d make great practice models for texturing or good background sci-fi clutter in a scene. Download links below.

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Hard Surface Texture Painting in Blender

Earlier this year after I did those hard surface modeling and painting timelapses, I got many requests to do an actual tutorial on the process. So even though there’s plenty out there already about texture painting in Blender, I went ahead and did it. There’s a short overview video and then three longer videos going into much more detail.

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Hard Surface Modeling & Painting Timelapses

I’ve always wanted to be able to make awesome hard surface things. I’ve done some things over the years, naturally, and some of them have even turned up in movies, but I never did that really cool, super detailed and complex stuff you see the Blender community making with HardOps, Boxcutter, etc.

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STmap Lens Distort workflow

I realize after the last few posts I made, this whole process might be a bit confusing, so I wanted to consolidate it all into one video. This is a short demo of the complete workflow to get your lens distortion out of Blender using STmaps, beginning to end.

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Blender Lens Distortion STmap Update & Node

If you watched my last tutorial on exporting STmaps from Blender to apply your lens distortion in whatever compositing program you are using, I’m happy to share that I have an update that improves the process in every way!

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Blender Batcher – Fast, Simple Render Queue for Mac

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Remember my post about RenderPilot, the super simple drag-and-drop batch rendering tool for PCs? I was hoping someone would be able to port it to Mac sometime soon, but rather than wait for that to happen, I asked a friend of mine to come up with a little program that does the same thing. I’m thrilled to be able to offer here FREE for everyone! (more…)