New Site

After I became a new moderator at Nystic Forums, Super3Boy gave me some free webspace to use. Thus, my new website is located at: http://yoda.nystic.com There, I hope to be more regular with updates and news regarding my stuff and Blender updates.

Star Wars: Nocturnal

Well, I’ve been lazy in recent days and haven’t done much updating to the site. So, I guess I’ll give everybody some insight into the newest project I’m a part of. It is called Star Wars: Nocturnal and will be a series of episodes made in Blender. Here are some works and previews:

A Couple of New Renders

Here are a couple of new renders that I’ve done.

Workshop:

Salamanders

Farmer Sackboy

Jedi Sackboy

Text Tutorials Up and Running

The first addition to my text tutorials are now up and running. This tutorial is of my water displacement video tutorial, but transformed to text for those who hated the audio quality. For any more text tutorial ideas, please let me know.

Text Tutorials

Hey all, It’s been a while since I’ve touched the topic of tutorials. I have mentioned before that if I do make tutorials, until Blender 3D version 2.5 comes out, those tutorials will be text tutorials, and placed in their own page on this site. However, since it has been a while since I talked about tutorials, I will be forgetting all the previous ones that I have promised and start anew. If anybody wants the tutorials that I was going to do, let me know and I will put them back on my list. The newest tutorial I was going to do was a more advanced one of the fluid simulator with many fluid controllers in it, however I had to stop since my computer couldn’t handle all the calculations, but if necessary I could always redo the video tutorial on the fluid simulator as a text one. Other than that, I currently have no tutorials on my list and would kindly take to any suggestions.

~Yodaman

Spring is Here!

Well, with the arrival of spring comes the arrival of a new render. I like to call it “My Spring Tricycle”

Various Updates!

It’s been a while since I have posted any updates so here are some to tell all of you what I have been up to and currently doing. There are a couple projects that I am currently involved in, one of which is a personal project about making a starship. Here are a couple renders about it:

For more on the progression of my starship, please visit here and here for the repair bot.

Another new project is the racing game that is being created in Blender 3D called KarToon Rally. This project is looking very promising and is already producing some great results. For more info on this project, please visit the official site at:http://blenderracing.wordpress.com/

*Deep Breath* Finally, with all of this, comes a tutorial that I am currently working on. The newest tutorial includes the fluid simulator and will be a text tutorial. It will cover some of the points in the video tutorial that I created, but it will also go more in depth with using a control object for the fluid. The projection date for the release of the tutorial is set to be out hopefully within the next two weeks.

That is just about it, if anybody has any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to ask. I plan to be updating the site more often and not be as lazy as I have been in the past.

Apologies

I would just like to say that I’m sorry about being lazy and not making the tutorial that I said I would. One of the reasons why is that I’ve been rather busy with school and such where I haven’t been able to make a tutorial (and I haven’t been quite satisfied with the results of using sound in my last couple of tutorials). In addition, with Blender 2.5 coming out in a couple of months, I don’t know if I should be making tutorials since I would probably have to go back and remake all of them when it does come out. Anyways, I might make some text tutorials though, that way I don’t have to really make one tutorial in one sitting and have to worry about screwing up or have the sound not match up. If I do end up making some text tutorials, my first one will probably be Animated Lightning. I won’t know for sure when it will be done, but then I guess you’ll just have visit the site every once and a while to see.

Upcoming Tutorials

Well after getting a couple of requests for tutorials, here are some that I will hope to finish before February.

-Force Lightning-

Creating its shape

Animating the texture

-IPO Editor-

General uses of it

How to control it

-Particles-

Controlling them

Using them

New Tutorials

Here is a new tutorial that is two part about materials and textures.