Blender Material Override
When working with physics simulations, sometimes you need to adjust the camera movement after baking the simulation. If...
Creating a Custom Compositor Node in Blender Source
Playing with the Blender source code, we want to make a custom compositor node. This included significantly more...
Blender DNA: Unraveling the Internal Structure
Working on adding a new compositor node, I ran into challenges with RNA. In a previous post, I...
Creating Simple Shapes Using Open Shading Language (OSL)
In this post, we are going to use Open Shading Language (OSL) to create three simple shapes and...
Exploring Exciting Capabilities of Blender’s Geometry Nodes
Recently, Blender added a simulation node to the geometry nodes. This adds exciting capabilities to geometry nodes. However,...
Creating Exploding Objects with Fracture Geometry Nodes: a Quick Guide
In a future post, I will do a deeper dive into geometry nodes. However, I had a specific...
How to Convert a 2D Image into 3D using Inkscape and Blender
Learn how to trace a 2D image in Inkscape, export SVG paths, and import them into Blender to build a 3D model — no sculpting needed.
Render Comparison Blender Add-on to Spark your Creativity
Sometimes, I want to look at different versions of a setting, but want to remember what setting I...
Discover the Gooch OSL Shader
Part of the challenge of creating new shaders in Open Shading Language (OSL) is coming up with ideas...
How to Create a Character Rig in Blender: a Step-by-step Tutorial
In a previous post, we made an Open Shading Language (OSL) shader for a slimy alien skin. Obviously,...