Hi folks, here’s the second part of our spaceship video project, as promised. This is our last official video for the year and I just want to take the opportunity to say thanks for being such a creative and fun group. It’s been a pleasure.

Click here if you haven’t done Part 1 yet.

In this video we introduce a few new things:

1. Rendering a video instead of a static image
2. Using a “follow path” constraint to move an object along a pre-defined path
3. Using a “track to” constraint to keep a camera pointing at a target
4. The impact of the camera’s focal length
5. Importing items from another Blender file

Here are the video instructions, they’re long at about 50mins, so take them in a few sections if you need to:

You’re going to need an image I prepared to texture the warp tunnel, it’s below. Just right-click on it and save it as space.png.

The blend file can be downloaded from here.

Have a lovely summer!

Hi folks. I may put up some content over the summer if I get time, but this is Part 1 of 2 of our last proper project this year.

We’re going to model a spaceship in this project (Part 1) and have it fly through space (Part 2).

Here are the video instructions:

Just after I stopped recording I remembered I’d forgotten to switch on “Bloom” which makes the engines glow properly. Make sure to switch this on as shown in the picture below!

A copy of my Blend file can be downloaded from here.

Hi folks, in this video I build and rig a humanoid figure and show how to pose it. I also say “not too terrible” a lot.

This is something that I’d hoped we’d get too all year and I’m glad that I’ve a chance to show it to you here. I hope you’ll have a go with it. Those more artistic than I am may make a better looking human figure, with a bit of luck.

My blender file can be downloaded from here.

If you manage this and would like to push it further, maybe challenge yourself to see if you can remember how to UV unwrap and texture paint the model? I’d love to see someone give that a go.

Take care of yourselves and I hope to do one or two more videos before we break for the summer.

Hi folks, thanks a million to those who watched last week. This week we do something simple and fun: some low-poly trees that will look great added to any low-poly outdoor scene.

This technique uses extrusion and the skin modifier to build the trunk. The canopy is made of ico spheres that we’ve distorted.

Here’s the video link:

My blend file can be downloaded from here.