In today’s post we are going to look at how you can help control your cloth simulations using hooks, and how to release them on demand. This can be a great solution to use when you have a character that needs to pull or hold a simulated piece of clothing,…
Today we are going to take a look at some tips to hopefully improve your lighting when working on your scenes in Blender. The general concept of these tips can easily be used in any 3D application but any options or settings will be focused on Blender. I’ll also not…
If you have been a member of my Patreon at any time you might know that I have a slight obsession with chasing realism in my renders. Especially so when it comes to skin shaders. With that in mind I thought I would make a small article that looks at,…
Sometimes you find yourself doing the exact thing everyone told you not to do. In this case that is moving the high frequency detail back from your displacement textures onto your model! Why Transfer Displacement Back to the Model? So why would you do this? There are a few reasons…
I recently made this render of Tifa as a cute cat girl, but I sort of glossed over the cloth simulation aspect of it until I was asked in a private message how I made the draping of the oversized T-Shirt. So I thought I’d make a quick post with…
Something we all love is saving VRAM. One of the best methods is to reduce the number of textures, and what better way to do it than to pack multiple textures into 1. What is Channel Packing? Channel packing is a method of saving resources by ‘packing’ multiple textures into…
This is less a tutorial and more a small examination of how I’ve been using Blender’s cloth simulation feature to make my renders more realistic or just do most of the posing work for me so only sculpting or tweaking is left. Not Animations!These tips are probably not too helpful…
Did you enjoy ripping & tearing in Doom and want to do some in Blender too? Then look no further. I’m going to show you how you can put some ladders in your digital tights (Pantyhose?) or tear up a shirt using Alpha or Opacity textures. Why Rip & Tear…
It’s been quite a while. I know you probably all want to get on with the tutorial so I won’t bore you with life updates, but suffice to say my mental health (like everyone’s I’m sure) has taken a beating over the last year or so. I recently made a…
I recently wanted a PVC plastic material for a render and after looking around realised that the majority of materials are focused on hard plastic and not the soft flexible PVC you might make clothing or bags from. With that in mind why not come along on an adventure and…
