In this multi-part series, I’ll be covering how to box-model a stylized dragon, making heavy use of the various sculpt tools. The texturing will cover creating tangent normal maps and using the “toon shader” to get a nice cel-shaded look. I’ll also go into some intermediate rigging with some nice animations; from walking to pouncing to flying. and finally we’ll look into setting up a good composition with props and lighting.

In this ninth and final part, we go into some different lighting setups, and then jump in and do a walk cycle for this quadrupedal creature. I then briefly go over the Non-Linear Action editor, and we do a head side-to-side motion as the walk cycle loops. .

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In this multi-part series, I’ll be covering how to box-model a stylized dragon, making heavy use of the various sculpt tools. The texturing will cover creating tangent normal maps and using the “toon shader” to get a nice cel-shaded look. I’ll also go into some intermediate rigging with some nice animations; from walking to pouncing to flying. and finally we’ll look into setting up a good composition with props and lighting.

Thanks to TMT and veeQue for their quick tips (sorry I forgot your names in the video ).

In this eighth part, we go ahead and apply the rig to the model, and clean up some of the auto-weight painting on the head. I show you a few tips on the cloth sim, but ultimately, we stick with the original weight painting. I play with a couple of different poses, then I append the tower and perch ol’ Quaid on the top in a nice ferocious roaring pose.

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In this multi-part series, I’ll be covering how to box-model a stylized dragon, making heavy use of the various sculpt tools. The texturing will cover creating tangent normal maps and using the “toon shader” to get a nice cel-shaded look. I’ll also go into some intermediate rigging with some nice animations; from walking to pouncing to flying. and finally we’ll look into setting up a good composition with props and lighting.

Thanks to TMT and veeQue for their quick tips (sorry I forgot your names in the video ).

In this seventh Blender 2.5 Video Tutorial, I show you some tweaks I did to the texture map, and show you how it looks with the Toon shader applied (along with some SSS – SubSurface Scattering), then I jump in and build the rig.

Thanks to TMT and veeQue for their quick tips (sorry I forgot your names in the video ).

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In this Blender 2.53 video tutorial, I show you how to add the Human Meta-Rig, and set it up with constraints and such for easier and faster rig creation.

I also will walk you through how to recover your project files from a crash. My project crashes halfway into the video, so you will get to see this first hand.

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In this quick Blender 2.5 video tip we demonstrate how to simplify messy animation curves using one of the new Addons in Blender 2.53. This video also demoes using the Record feature in Blender to keyframe the live movement of an object.

In this Blender Video Game Engine Tutorial, I cover setting up gravity dynamics, boxes that can be pushed around with Eddie, a “pushing” pose that Eddie goes into while doing the pushing (a “near” sensor). We also go into multiple scenes, and going back and forth between them, as well as a scene reset, in case you fall into the oblivion.

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In this first section of this Blender 2.5 Video Tutorial, I cover the creation of a game-friendly model (i.e. low-polygon), texturing, rigging, animating, and bringing it into the game engine with basic forward and back controls, as well as turning left and right, and running.

The first 8 minutes of the video is a time lapse video of me modeling and rigging a quick low poly character. If you are unfamiliar with this part of it please visit my alien rigging series here on Blender Cookie. With this series we wanted to focus a bit more on the game engine.

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In this Blender 2.5 video tutorial we take on the process of rigging the fingers to a human hand with only a few bones and constraints. This technique leaves you with fingers that are very easy to animate and control without the need for IKs or Drivers.

Note: this tutorial technique is based on the original Russian tutorial from Dimetri here: http://vimeo.com/10685206 Great thanks out to Dimetri for talking with us and creating some awesome rigs.

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In this blender video tutorial, I expand on the previous hair tutorial and go over adding motion to the hair.

We will also cover normal residual motion, as well as adding dynamic wind.

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In this Blender 2.5 video tutorial we show you how to use driven shape-keys to dilate the pupil of an eye. The tutorial also demonstrates how to use custom bone shapes and limiting the transformation of a bone via constraints.

Note: this tutorial uses the official Blender 2.5 Alpha 2 release.

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