Preboy:
literature I get, graphics? I don't... you're into game making or what?

I love art, am not into game making, at least not yet...

losprince: I love art, am not into game making, at least not yet...

so you planning to go into game making someday?

Preboy:
so you planning to go into game making someday?

definitely

I want to beleive this thread stil stands its purpose hence the help i seek...pls shimish ,lad and others help me out. I guess u know about the Lava man stuff cos am in it too guys...pls i do want to kno how u can get that hand usin blender. I just cant get my hands on it yet. Pls do say smthing.

almost four months into blender, here is what I have achieved so far, this took me 3 and half days, done in blender 2.71. thank God for the achievements so far

Nice use of cycles. Really nice. You could add more samples but that would consume a lot of cpu power.Did you follow Andrew Price's tutorials on rendering donuts?

ladanski: Nice use of cycles. Really nice. You could add more samples but that would consume a lot of cpu power.Did you follow Andrew Price's tutorials on rendering donuts?

yeah I know, i just use that amount of samples for quick preview, yeah I once watch his tutorial I mean Andrew tutorial on "introduction to cycles", where he explain how to create a donut under one minutes.but he didnt actually model it. I followed the instruction he gave. (which is by adding a tonus and another tonus above, then you will use the fluid simulator to drop the tonus above on the one below. and then you will use particle system to add some sprinkles on it).

hi guys, nice work you guys been doing so far. I will like to know if there's a bbm group for blender users and if there's none, then let's have one created, and if there's one, please add me up 74A15782. Right now I have a forum on bbm but its hard recruiting people into it. keep up the bad work!

plz in need of ebooks, using v2.63

@yinskey.....Really nice...
How did you make that faucet and its material?

@ kazuna thanks, that faucet is quite tricky, i used a mixed shader, with glossy shader as shader 1 with a FAC value of 0.707, Beckmann type, color: white, roughness:0.000 and diffuse shader as shader 2: with color:black, roughness:0.036 normal:default. you can still experiment with the setting to get better result, it took me a while to get it though, and proper lighting could help a lot. the modeling is quite easy: I used a curve modifier to bend a cylinder , I also used the screw modifier to create the spring using a circle mesh. the screw modifier can be very trick since the circle will be twisted around the origin (that orange dot). so it should be beside the circle.

the circle.should be create in the front view and the "align to view " checkbox should be checked. then you will use the curve modifier to bend it, I tried to use the 'simple deform' modifier its a crashing failure. thats the trick.

@Yinksey, nice works.

prof800: @Yinksey, nice works.

thanks.

Yinksey:
thanks.

Welcome.

btw, where have you been siiince?
Have you seen this thread? www.nairaland.com/1821291/3d-modelling-challenge-lava-man

There is an ongoing challenge (LAVA MAN). Please do register your support.

Maybe you might want to participate in the forthcoming animation challenge.


Also;
There was a quirky little chat here too before the challenge. www.nairaland.com/1795420/where-3d-animators-cg-artist

yeah, i was aware of those threads, I would have really liked to join, I dont really have the time now, maybe feature challenges shaa. but I do follow those thread silently.

Watch "Ideatrophy 2014" on YouTube - Ideatrophy 2014:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8ns_9A-9pM

Does anyone know to combine cycles with Blender internal.......I crave Cycles photorealism but its so hard using it for animation.

in fact you can do a lot with the array modifier, here is my result from Andrew price tutorial.

Finally got a decent system for CG... Have 3ds max 2014,zbrush,c4d,and blender installed...

Dnt knw which to start wit

CODEEATER: Finally got a decent system for CG... Have 3ds max 2014,zbrush,c4d,and blender installed...

Dnt knw which to start wit

blender is good for a start, it quite easy to learn seriously.

Okay i will be downloading blender tomorrow,,, let me join the queue ,,

Peterwizzy: Okay i will be downloading blender tomorrow,,, let me join the queue ,,

Join the traiiiinnnnnnn.....join blender......think blender is particularly good for animation and camera trackin.

Peterwizzy: Okay i will be downloading blender tomorrow,,, let me join the queue ,,

that's a great step, blender is awesome as a freeware.

kazuna:
Join the traiiiinnnnnnn.....join blender......think blender is particularly good for animation and camera trackin.

im lost o,,, i don't know where to start from,the interface na e i dey look like mumu lol but how do i start? recommend me tutorials

Peterwizzy: im lost o,,, i don't know where to start from,the interface na e i dey look like mumu lol but how do i start? recommend me tutorials

na the same thing wey I don ask tire, nobody gree answer me... na so blender just dey ma PC dey look me

I dey plan to get the PDF format of blenderwiki

Hi everyone, i just stumbled on this thread,and its great to know there is some kind of blender community here.I recently downloaded blender and its been mad fun ever since, though its not been easy finding the time to really follow through on my mini projects. I see a whole lot of great 3d modelling going on here but noticed that there are very few "FREE" tutorials/ guides on 3D animation here or any where else on the internet.
Please can anyone point me in the right direction, any tips will be very helpful. Also thought I would contribute to the thread by sharing my very first renders...very amateur stuff though. . Comments and criticisms are very welcome...

rodmann: Hi everyone, i just stumbled on this thread,and its great to know there is some kind of blender community here.I recently downloaded blender and its been mad fun ever since, though its not been easy finding the time to really follow through on my mini projects. I see a whole lot of great 3d modelling going on here but noticed that there are very few "FREE" tutorials/ guides on 3D animation here or any where else on the internet.
Please can anyone point me in the right direction, any tips will be very helpful. Also thought I would contribute to the thread by sharing my very first renders...very amateur stuff though. . Comments and criticisms are very welcome...

like the character....guess is rigged. you good
work on your lighting...follow Andrew Price video tutorial on three point lighting. it will help.

Preboy:
na the same thing wey I don ask tire, nobody gree answer me... na so blender just dey ma PC dey look me

I dey plan to get the PDF format of blenderwiki

that happened to me, when I first downloaded blender. but after reading this eBook in screenshot below, I was able to do some stuff and it really helped me alot,

WWW.blenderguru.com is good place to learn a lot off cool stuffs that guy called Andrew price is really good,

WWW.blendercookie.com is another place.

WWW.blenderartist.com is another great community
and above all YouTube.com just look for these channels, blenderguru, blenderpedia, blenderhd, blendercookie, blenderdiplom, cgcookie.

you can also search for these guys "sardi pax, alimarango, Andrew price(blenderguru)" on YouTube.

Yinksey:

that happened to me, when I first downloaded blender. but after reading this eBook in screenshot below, I was able to do some stuff and it really helped me alot,

thanks a lot bro, bt it seems to be for blender 2.5... I need eBook(s) that supports 2.60+

Preboy:
thanks a lot bro, bt it seems to be for blender 2.5... I need eBook(s) that supports 2.60+

yeah, but it does not really matter , this the ebook that got me started and I am using blender 2.70 by then, now 2.71.

Yinksey:

yeah, but it does not really matter , this the ebook that got me started and I am using blender 2.70 by then, now 2.71.

kul, one last thing tho... does it have illustrations ? I think illustrations would help a lot