Blender Fundamentals - Adjusting the Transform Orientation (Demo lesson)
30. January 2023

[Tutorial] Blender Fundamentals – Adjusting the Transform Orientation (Demo lesson)

30. January 2023 By admin

Today we switch gears – this is my first Blender tutorial of this year. It’s a beginners lesson from my “Blender Fundamentals” publication and teaches you how you can work with different transform orientations. I hope you like it. I’m quit curious if also some long-time Blender users find some new tips and tricks in it 😎 You find this tutorial as always on my YouTube channel: 👉 https://youtu.be/an8IXdtTQbo In thisRead More

Fusion for Production - VFX Compositing with Fusion - 06 Polygon Masks & BSpline Mask Tool
19. January 2023

[Tutorial] Fusion for Production – VFX Compositing with Fusion – 06 Polygon Masks & BSpline Mask Tool

19. January 2023 By admin

I’ve just released my next free Blackmagicdesign Fusion Tutorial on my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/pixeltrain3DVFXTrainings This time I talk about Masking, the Polygon Mask tool and the BSpline Mask tool. You can follow along with DaVinci Resolve on the Fusion Page or in Fusion Studio. Have fun! Helge

Fusion for Production - VFX Compositing with Fusion - 05 Fundamentals of Masks in Fusion
18. January 2023

[Tutorial] Fusion for Production – VFX Compositing with Fusion – 05 Fundamentals of Masks in Fusion

18. January 2023 By admin

After a longer pause I’ve released a new free tutorial on my YouTube channel. I hope you like it 🙂 👉 https://youtu.be/RTIdh-ZsbTo In this tutorial, you will learn the general uses and workflows of Masks in Fusion / Fusion Page in Resolve. You will learn the different Mask types in Fusion, the most important parameters and options when drawing them. Also we will look into how to combine Masks forRead More

23. December 2022

Blender Fundamentals Publication Holiday Voucher

23. December 2022 By admin

The End of the year brings us time to reflect, relax and to learn something new! Let’s start learning Blender with our „pixeltrain Blender Fundamentals – Fast Forward“ publication. 👉 YouTube Trailer More than 20+ hours of content in over 114 lessons.Learn everything you need to know for beginners and folks from other 3D applications. Our gift for you is a Holiday Voucher for VIMEO VOD or GUMROAD.Use „XMAS2022“ atRead More

Introduction to the Blender Sculpting
15. December 2022

New Blender PLUS+ content added to our publication

15. December 2022 By admin

One month after launching our “pixeltrain Blender Fundamentals” publication, we added today another Plus+ content chapter with more than 2.5 hours (12 lessons) to the package. Free for every existing customer, of course 🙂 You now get a guided Introduction to the Blender Sculpting environment, it’s tools and workflows like Dyntopo, Remeshing and Multires. Also we work on two little projects to practice the new learned skills. The full publicationRead More

Fusion for Production - VFX Compositing with Fusion - 03 Deep Pixel Fundamentals, Tools & Workflows
10. June 2022

[Tutorial] Fusion for Production – VFX Compositing with Fusion – 03 Deep Pixel Fundamentals, Tools & Workflows

10. June 2022 By admin

In this tutorial series, we will talk about Blackmagic Fusion Studio and Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve (Fusion page) as a professional VFX Compositing package. We will dive into basic workflows and techniques to make your daily compositing work more effective and fun. In this tutorial, you will learn the Fundamentals of Fusions Deep Pixel workflows, which gives you as a compositing artist an extremely powerful toolset inside of Fusion. You willRead More

Blender 3.0 for Production - 2D & 3D Tracking Workflow - 12 Solving Nodal & Tripod Shots
8. March 2022

Blender 3.0 for Production – 2D & 3D Tracking Workflow – 12 Solving Nodal & Tripod Shots

8. March 2022 By admin

How to solve an un-solvable shot without parallax? In this lesson we will talk about that. Have fun! Helge These topics are covered in this tutorial: Importance of Nodal Shots for production Analyzing the shot Trying to solve with semi automatic tracking Detect features Camera Settings Solving Keyframes Finding problematic trackers Cleaning up trackers automatically Indicators for a nodal shot in the result Start again, but the right way ClearingRead More

25. November 2021

New upcoming tutorial series

25. November 2021 By admin

Thanks to the new USD export in Blender, the exchange between Blender’s powerful motion tracker and NUKE or Houdini is becoming easier and easier. Blender is becoming more and more team-minded – thanks to the developers. My upcoming Blender free tutorial series offers a deep dive into camera and object tracking. More information then on YouTube. Coming soon: https://www.youtube.com/pixeltrain3DVFXTrainings If you like Helge’s Tutorials, give him some support to goRead More

14. April 2021

New Compositing-Tutorial-Series: Pipeline between Blender & Nuke!

14. April 2021 By admin

Here is a new tutorial for my series “Blender for Production“. This time we will talk about an exciting software combination because we start setting up a Blender to NUKE pipeline. YES – Blender is an excellent choice as a 3d application and so it is important to learn how to use it together with Nuke in a compositing pipeline. This series has three parts. These are the topics: HowRead More

4. February 2021

Affinity 1.9 is here!

4. February 2021 By admin

Great release, the next big step for the Affinity tools. We use Affinity Designer, Affinity Photo and Affinity Publisher for our work at pixeltrain. And we love these tools. So, if you are not willing to pay 50 Euro per month and you want to own your software and have a clean, modern and intuitive approach to designing and photo manipulation, take a look!They offer a 50% discount on theirRead More