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.

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7

Support the site – Download includes:

• High resolution .mov Video
• .blend file at the state of the tutorial
• Supporting Textures

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.

Support the site – Download includes:

• High resolution .mov Video
• .blend file (Hooked up Rig)

In this Blender 2.5 Video Mini-tutorial, I go over how to use the Array Modifier, and then go on to bake the Ambient Occlusion and Tangent Normals.

Support the site – Download includes:

• High resolution .mov Video
• .blend file at the state of the tutorial
• Supporting Textures

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 part 6, I go over a few more tricks on baking, and go ahead and add a “jaw open” shapekey so we can see inside the mouth. Then we jump into Photoshop to do some cleanup on the texture.

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6

Support the site – Download includes:

• High resolution .mov Video
• .blend file at the state of the tutorial
• Supporting Textures

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 fifth part, I add seams to the model and unwrap the UVs, followed by a high-rez sculpt to give some subtle scales here and there. I then create a tangent normal map to apply to the low-rez version, and also bake the Ambient Occlusion.

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6

Support the site – Download includes:

• High resolution .mov Video
• .blend file at the state of the tutorial
• Supporting Textures

Part 1

Part 2

In this Blender video tutorial, I show you how to set up the “Toon” shader, and use the Edge settings to create a nice 2D cel-shaded look to your 3D models.

In this Blender video tutorial, I show you the basics of adding seams to a model, then setting up the Ambient Occlusion and Environment light, then baking them to a texture map, and applying it to the model.

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 fourth part, I go in and add one more toe/finger to each foot/hand, and then jump in and finish up the wings, followed by a little cleanup of the overall model.

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6

Support the site – Download includes:

• High resolution .mov Video
• .blend file at the state of the tutorial

Part 1

Part 2

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 second part, I do some tweaking of the face, and go on to add the body, legs, and tail. I also create the inside of the mouth. This is required if we are to make him roar later.

This file got a bit large also and we will be working on future ones to break these apart into two downloads for purchase or for the Citizens.

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6

Support the site – Download includes:

• High resolution .mov Video
• .blend file at the state of the tutorial

In this second section, I cover setting up menu and cut scenes, importing a gun to pick up and point, shooting the gun to knock over the boxes, and then finally adding a sound effect when the gun is shot.

View Part 1
View Part 2

Support the site – Download includes:

• High resolution .mov Video
• .blend file at the state of the tutorial
• Textures used