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Stbillion: I have blender 3D on my laptop but dont exactly how to start.
im little good in photoshop, please help

Preboy: thanks @Yinskey and tos87... I'm most grateful
@kazuna your works are good and trully inspiring... I dunno if you guys are still serious about the open movie thing, bt I've been seriously cracking my brain trying to cook up something short and relatable. so what exactly should it be about; Nigeria, rural(kings and chiefs), ghetto life, politicians, terrorist activities, love, sci-fi, friendship etc.

Yinksey: goto to the render tab with a camera icon , scroll down till you find the sampling section. then increase the number of render samples from 10 to an higher number. although the higher the longer it takes to render...
leave the preview samples at 10 only the render samples.

the way cycles handle lighting is different from that of blender internal, it either a sun lamp, spot lamp or an object with emission shader.

I recommend Andrew price "introduction to cycles" tutorial

kazuna: Dammm Goodness
Its high time we group together...somehow, and do a project. We shan't wait till we get to Pixar level before we could build. I propose we do a project, pullin all out learnt skills and comin out wt somethang.
What do you guyz say?

Yinksey: @tos8 i am using the trial version, but i downloaded the infinite crack stuff to reset it when it expire, cant really remeber the download link now, but you can do a quick google search for it, it is a small file.

Yinksey: thanks, surely it has, just being lazy though, since i have crazy bump. will work more on the scene and post the updates here.

Yinksey: I noticed the scene looks quite dull, so I decided to add some life to it with a basic composition in Photoshop!

Preboy: the remake of the coffee cup

plz help correct any error

CODEEATER: I don't know y...I just don't like blender... its cool n all,but I just don't dig it...

I prefer 3ds max,c4d n Maya,which support gray extension... blender doesn't... with vRay,photorealistic images are made possible, am not saying blender lacks realism, just that its not "professional" I guess...

but either way,I've got em all installed anyway.. using digital tutors as my Learning center...

jjk24: Yinksey man jst wanted to see if i culd acheive sumfin lyk dah nt as detailed as yurs ehn.. I sha try

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...

cgniyi: My apologies! I just assumed any software that has sculpting features ( modo, Blender,c4d) is optimized to handle very high polygon count.
Seems Zbrush is very unique.
It's still just 32bits and it handles high polycounts better than other 64bit softwares.
It also doesn't need a high-end graphics card to run, unlike Mudbox.

I advice everyone to check out Zbrush

kazuna: GUys i am givin up....this model is way too repetitive and almost a bore.....not to talk of the polygons it is eating off my mistress.....
WILL WAIT FOR THE ANIMATION.

prof800: I think the challenge is to model according to the 'pose'.

Tho, A 'DaVinci Pose' should be okay IMO.




BUT....
Since rigging is not part of the workflow for The Challenge. There will be some difficulty in achieving the original 'Lava man' pose.

I need clarification from cgniyi and OKX ASAP...

spywareczar: lol, yessir, shey u are one of the participant? Show your progress

@ prof800 please sign me back in, I'll participate, will start another one and post WIPs within the week, I don vex

spywareczar: lol, actually, creating that lava man is not an issue, I didn't withdraw from d competition coz I don't know how to go about creating the character but bcoz I was disappointed, not what I was expecting, you should hve brought something fresh and interesting,


To the participants: oya don't be shy to post your wips na haha, had to launch cinema 4D and create a lil something this morning, here is it, I know it doesn't look good , its just somethin to make u guys start post ur awesome WIPs

ladanski: Also waiting to see WIPs. If I dont see anything within a few days, I might pull out of the competition.

OKX: @tos
unlock ur mind bro, stop saying 'cant'. Dats d essence of this exercise, to widen our horizons.

tweak d reference image in any editing software of choice, like Photoshop to straighten it out. Then use it as a guide to draw and create ur own texture map.

then create the rock effect as a displacement map, giving as much detail as u desire.

there is enough info in the reference image to creatively texture the complete character, or maybe i don't understand ur comment.
care to clarify?

@xothermik
lol, lend ur experience man. I know u wrote the book on mapping generally.

OKX: @tos
unlock ur mind bro, stop saying 'cant'. Dats d essence of this exercise, to widen our horizons.

tweak d reference image in any editing software of choice, like Photoshop to straighten it out. Then use it as a guide to draw and create ur own texture map.

then create the rock effect as a displacement map, giving as much detail as u desire.

there is enough info in the reference image to creatively texture the complete character, or maybe i don't understand ur comment.
care to clarify?

@xothermik
lol, lend ur experience man. I know u wrote the book on mapping generally.

Preboy: boss, what do you think abt running a blender 2.6.x on a 512mb RAM with intergrated HP graphics PC?
just gonna do basic stuffs