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Hi, everyone! I've been working the past couple weeks at launching my new 3d printing shop over on Shapeways, and I've finally decided to launch it. It's called Differential Designs, and features many of the objects I've released as free modeling tutorials over the past several months, as well as a few new shapes I haven't tutorized yet. From now, until the new year, new products will be added to the store almost daily! Most of these products are first-time candidates to 3d printing on Shapeways, so I prefer to test them in beta releases. All this means is that these objects have not reached the minimum number of successful prints (80%) to be considered finalized designs yet. Every object that is listed in the store has passed the initial automated inspection routines upon upload to the Shapeways store, and I've already placed my own first-time order for the Trefoil Star Pendant, which has successfully passed the manual pre-printing inspections by Shapeways' staff, and is currently in production! I'm very excited to get my first successful 3d printed object from them, and will post photos of it when it arrives through the mail in about a week.
However, there's no way I can beta test all of the models in the store all by myself, and need your help, by simply purchasing an order for one of the models available on Differential Designs. My "mission" with this store overall is to explore and share simple, standard, polygonal modeling techniques with people who wish to create visually stunning objects for rendering or 3d printing. Unfortunately, not everyone interested in this type of thing is mathematically gifted to be able to create certain shapes through complex formulas, or algebraic scripting. With each successful 3d print, the overall strategies and methods of each technique are verified and proven to translate into real world printed objects. This information can be used to produce even more accurate and highly specific tutorials going forward, using Blender and 3dsmax. Having over an 80% successful beta run with any of these models will allow us to better understand issues related to potential printing hazards, like minimal wall thickness for certain materials, and how that relates to overall printing costs, as well as other issues that many newcomers to 3d printing are likely to face.
As mentioned, anything you order from my Shapeways shop has already passed every automated inspection Shapeways has, for stability and successful printing in the given materials. If for any reason, after your purchase, a beta product fails the manual inspection by the Shapeways team before printing, they will notify you, and you will NOT have to pay for it. I've done my best to keep all the pricing very reasonable. The average price for a 3d print in flexible plastic in my store is under $40, and there are several items that are in the $10 range. I've included an "X-mas ornament" version of the Classic Star Ball, which could also make a great Holiday gift, or to hang from your tree. If anyone decides to support the store by beta-testing any of the models (I know for sure the Trefoil Star Pendant will pass the manual inspection), I encourage you to contact me and let me know. Once you receive the model, be sure to take pics of it, and I'll put together a beta-testers video, featuring all your photos with credits, and put you in the list for other complimentary model gifts from me in the future. Thank you very much for your support! In addition to all the models, I'll be uploading to the Differential Designs store in the coming days, I will also continue to release new **freebies** before the holidays too, so keep an eye on my profile for that!
However, there's no way I can beta test all of the models in the store all by myself, and need your help, by simply purchasing an order for one of the models available on Differential Designs. My "mission" with this store overall is to explore and share simple, standard, polygonal modeling techniques with people who wish to create visually stunning objects for rendering or 3d printing. Unfortunately, not everyone interested in this type of thing is mathematically gifted to be able to create certain shapes through complex formulas, or algebraic scripting. With each successful 3d print, the overall strategies and methods of each technique are verified and proven to translate into real world printed objects. This information can be used to produce even more accurate and highly specific tutorials going forward, using Blender and 3dsmax. Having over an 80% successful beta run with any of these models will allow us to better understand issues related to potential printing hazards, like minimal wall thickness for certain materials, and how that relates to overall printing costs, as well as other issues that many newcomers to 3d printing are likely to face.
As mentioned, anything you order from my Shapeways shop has already passed every automated inspection Shapeways has, for stability and successful printing in the given materials. If for any reason, after your purchase, a beta product fails the manual inspection by the Shapeways team before printing, they will notify you, and you will NOT have to pay for it. I've done my best to keep all the pricing very reasonable. The average price for a 3d print in flexible plastic in my store is under $40, and there are several items that are in the $10 range. I've included an "X-mas ornament" version of the Classic Star Ball, which could also make a great Holiday gift, or to hang from your tree. If anyone decides to support the store by beta-testing any of the models (I know for sure the Trefoil Star Pendant will pass the manual inspection), I encourage you to contact me and let me know. Once you receive the model, be sure to take pics of it, and I'll put together a beta-testers video, featuring all your photos with credits, and put you in the list for other complimentary model gifts from me in the future. Thank you very much for your support! In addition to all the models, I'll be uploading to the Differential Designs store in the coming days, I will also continue to release new **freebies** before the holidays too, so keep an eye on my profile for that!
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Twisted Heart | Easy 3d Modeling | Blender 3.0
It doesn't get more simple than this. In preparation for Valentine's Day, I thought I'd share this quick and easy technique in Blender. The result is a stylized heart with a Mobius-like twist. Since the result is actually a watertight solid shape, this could be exported for 3d printing or used in any number of design projects. If you want to try a 3d print, just keep in mind the scale and thickness values of the object. I haven't illustrated that here, but many of my other videos go into detail about how to set up a scene for modeling to scale for 3d printing. Since the base of this shape is extremely low poly, it can be used in mograph or animation very easily. In fact, the turntable animation example at the beginning was rendered with Eevee in about 2 minutes.
Alien Botany - Species 2 - Blender Animation
Second installment to the Alien Botany series. I know it's been a while, but I started playing around with Geometry Nodes in Blender 3.0 and wanted to make something that used them. I'm only a novice when it comes to Geometry Nodes, so it was just a matter of taking advantage of the instancing features and also some of the cool effects that can be created using them. Some of this stuff can be done with basic particles too, but I found that the nodes offer a lot more control for certain things, and thus they were used for this animation.
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Hi, everyone. Been a long time since I last posted anything here. Hopefully, I'll be around more often now. I hope everyone is doing well. Happy New Year to you all, and may this year be met with health and success for us all. I'd like to share my latest video on Youtube. Again, it has been quite a while since I posted a "tutorial" video. This one isn't quite a tutorial as much as it is a walkthrough of a modeling process. It's done in Blender 3.0, and I have Screencast Keys enabled. You can see the mouse buttons and the keystrokes in the lower right hand side of the viewport. Thank you for watching and stay tuned for more content in this new year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7T3q_822mo
35 Cloth and Cushion VDM Brush | Zbrush
Sculpting cloth a cushion details has never been easier! This multi-alpha VDM brush will help you create detailed cloth folds, wrinkles, tufting, and realistic cushions instantly on just about any subdivided mesh! 35 cloth folds, wrinkles, tufts, and cushion designs in one multi-alpha VDM brush. Includes highly detailed cushion 3d alphas for fast iteration of furniture models. ZTL Ztool of all 35 models also included! Quickly and easily create wrinkles and folds in cloth, chesterfield tufting, and cushions! All 3d alphas were generated with 6 levels of subdivision Works with Zbrush 2019.1 or higher. If you're a Zbrush user, you can get this VDM brush pack for Zbrush 2019.1 and higher at either of my marketplace stores: https://www.artstation.com/luxxeon/store or https://www.cgtrader.com/luxxeon PS: I hope everyone out there is doing well! I'm sorry I haven't been active here lately, but I've been extremely busy with personal matters and projects. Thanks again for looking!
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Good luck with your new venture John. I'm seriously giving some thought to opening a place of my own on Shapeways.
The Trefoil star pendant looks incredibly good value. I'm on a 3 month holiday in Australia at the moment, but I'm tempted to buy one of these when I get back to UK.
The Trefoil star pendant looks incredibly good value. I'm on a 3 month holiday in Australia at the moment, but I'm tempted to buy one of these when I get back to UK.