http://frigi.designdevil.de/Blog A digital artbook Thu, 03 Jun 2010 14:18:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A little gem that lets you smooth your meshes while retaining most of the shape and volume: Some additional info can be found here: KLICK To try it out you have to get a build of the development version of Blender, take a look here for the most recent ones: KLICK http://frigi.designdevil.de/Blog/?p=151 I implemented basic vertex pinning -as you already know it from the UV-editor- into Blender's Edit Mode, here's a little demonstration: You can access it by hotkey (currently Return +Alt and/or Shift for unpinning and inverting), the w-menu, the mesh menu in Edit Mode and of course the toolbox (just search ... http://frigi.designdevil.de/Blog/?p=140 When I create textures I sometimes don't have any/enough padding around the UV islands which might end in nasty seams on the 3D model. This tool is able to extrude the island borders by a given value in order to overcome this issue. All the bakers out there offer this functionality ... http://frigi.designdevil.de/Blog/?p=135 Here's a little speedmodelling update! (Click on the image.) http://frigi.designdevil.de/Blog/?p=125 This is a christmas present I made for my sister. It's a case in the shape of a ball with the life sculpting that I made a while ago incorporated in the upper shell. As long as there's something relatively heavy inside you can roll it around and it keeps ... http://frigi.designdevil.de/Blog/?p=115 The German Digital Art Forum put together an artbook consisting of almost 50 full color pages wrapped into a solid hardcover and  featuring works of the community. There are photographs, digital as well as traditional paintings/drawings (even good old pixelart) and 3D images in it. As you might already have ... http://frigi.designdevil.de/Blog/?p=64 Lately I've been working on a script for Blender which performs some checks in order to highlight areas of a model that might need to be changed to obtain optimal results. Currently there are functions to check the following: Quad torsion (extremely useful for lowpoly modelling and that's what initially made me ... http://frigi.designdevil.de/Blog/?p=46 A few weeks ago I participated in a contest held by the 3D printing company Shapeways and as a result Gas Guy got printed and was exhibited on this year's Siggraph in LA. Here's a photograph of the ~20cm tall model which is now decorating my table: As you can see ... http://frigi.designdevil.de/Blog/?p=34 My (unfortunately not yet completely finished) entry for the DomWarIII (click the image to view the album) http://frigi.designdevil.de/Blog/?p=12 The "Gas Guy" is a pretty random Dominance War exercise, meaning I just started sculpting without really having any clue of what will be the result. I had a lot of fun working on this one and along the way I also got my workflow for realtime models sorted out, ... http://frigi.designdevil.de/Blog/?p=10 A ZBrush MatCap-material (handpainted though): Download: fr_metallic_1 http://frigi.designdevil.de/Blog/?p=9 Here's the situation: We have a deep cut or something like that and want to "fill" it without destroying what's around it. The clay brush would just work fine for that but especially if it's a rather complex shape or probably a lot of such cuts you will have to spend ... http://frigi.designdevil.de/Blog/?p=8 I just felt like digging out an old model and rework the concept a bit so here you go: (klick image for more views)     I'm now going to start off with the environment and props for the Cubehead so hopefully I can present you some progress on that soon.   Fabian http://frigi.designdevil.de/Blog/?p=7 Finally I managed to put some of my stuff together and go online. Now then, a warm welcome and enjoy the ride! From now on you can follow my work a litte since I'm going to constantly (hopefully) post updates of my projects here and keep you up to date ... http://frigi.designdevil.de/Blog/?p=3 Since I do quite a lot of doodling and sketching in the meantime that in my opinion is worth showing, I'll just drop that here from now on. This first one is a still rather speedish designsculpt which I already started retopologizing, so it's to be displayed in the Artwork section ... http://frigi.designdevil.de/Blog/?p=6