Helge Maus

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https://www.blender.org/download/releases/2-93/

3. June 2021

Blender 2.93 LTS is out!

3. June 2021 By admin

Here are the new features:

And the cool new features reel:

https://youtu.be/fxNlpQYRz7s

Such a great final release for Blender 2+ series – now the Blender 3 can come!

Thanks to all the great developers!

P.S. If you want to start now, my next Blender Animation & Rigging Training (German) is June 17 + 18, 2021.

More information: http://www.pixeltrain.net/events/

If you like Helge’s Tutorials, give him some support to go on!

If you want to support Helge Maus for publishing more free tutorials, you can join his Patreons:
https://www.patreon.com/pixeltrain3d

Or if you want to buy me a coffee or pizza, here’s my Tip Jar:
https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=72PHXB852BW5A

Thanks for your support!

Find more information on www.pixeltrain.net

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/pixeltrain3DVFXTrainings

21. April 2021

Open Source: LuxCoreRender

21. April 2021 By admin

As many of you know, I am a huge fan of Blender. I’m convinced that this free software will be a new industry standard for many visualization and animation projects in the future.

I use Blender with Houdini FX in my trainings and also for personal projects all the time. Besides Cycles and Eevee I am also using LuxCore Renderer for photorealistic rendering with deep ray counts, complex camera effects and light linking. It’s best suited for Architecture, Product Visualization, and many more chases when it comes to realism.

The featureset is great!
And best of all it supports CPU and GPU (also on Mac with AMD cards).

Version 2.5 was just released, take a look here: https://luxcorerender.org

Thanks to the development team!

Here is my YouTube for all my tutorials about Houdini, Blender, Nuke & more:
https://www.youtube.com/pixeltrain3DVFXTrainings

BTW, if you want to support my work with these free tutorials, please subscribe to my YouTube channel, give me a ThumbsUp for the content you like. Also, I have a Patreon page, starting with $1 per month. That’s a nice way to say “Thank You”:
https://www.patreon.com/pixeltrain3d

If you like Helge’s Tutorials, give him some support to go on!

If you want to support Helge Maus for publishing more free tutorials, you can join his Patreons:
https://www.patreon.com/pixeltrain3d

Or if you want to buy me a coffee or pizza, here’s my Tip Jar:
https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=72PHXB852BW5A

Thanks for your support!

Find more information on www.pixeltrain.net

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/pixeltrain3DVFXTrainings

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:

How to set up a Blender to Nuke-Pipeline
How to compose the Light Passes from Blender Cycles inside of NUKE
How to get a correct World Position Pass. You learn how to fix all the issues which will appear if you try to use a Blender Cycles WPP in NUKE directly. You learn to solve the problems in NUKE, but also in Blender, so you later have a deep understanding of the workflow and solutions. As always we then build our tools for a later production pipeline.

Have fun!
Helge

01 Setting up a Blender to Nuke Pipeline

02 Working with Blender Light Passes in Nuke

03 Building correct World Position Passes and custom AOVS

Here is my YouTube for all my tutorials about Houdini, Blender, Nuke & more:
https://www.youtube.com/pixeltrain3DVFXTrainings

BTW, if you want to support my work with these free tutorials, please subscribe to my YouTube channel, give me a ThumbsUp for the content you like. Also, I have a Patreon page, starting with $1 per month. That’s a nice way to say “Thank You”:
https://www.patreon.com/pixeltrain3d

If you like Helge’s Tutorials, give him some support to go on!

If you want to support Helge Maus for publishing more free tutorials, you can join his Patreons:
https://www.patreon.com/pixeltrain3d

Or if you want to buy me a coffee or pizza, here’s my Tip Jar:
https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=72PHXB852BW5A

Thanks for your support!

Find more information on www.pixeltrain.net

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/pixeltrain3DVFXTrainings

2. April 2021

Blender Training Courses – Spring 2021

2. April 2021 By admin

>> Introduction to Blender | Visualisierungsakademie Schweiz, May 2021

On May 20 and 21 I will teach you online taking your first steps in Blender.
If you are interested, please check out the detailed information here:
https://visualisierungs-akademie.ch/bildung/blender-einfuehrungskurs/

On request I also teach this online course in English. Please do not hesitate to ask your questions (info(at) pixeltrain.net). I am always happy, to hear from everyone who is interested to become an Artist in Blender, Nuke or Houdini FX.

Some of the topics you learn in this course:

Getting to know the Blender 2.9 Infrastructure
Installation, AddOns and Konfiguration
User-Interface and Navigation
Scene-Organisation, Outlines, Collections
Polygone-Modeling Techniques
Working with Curves & Surfaces
Modifier
SubDivision Surfaces
UV Editor
Lightening, Types of Lights, Previews
Camera & Physical Setting
Materials & Shader
Using Textures
Photorealism & PBR
Preview with Eevee (Realtime)
Using Shading Workspace
Rendersettings with Eevee and Cycles
Final Rendering
Simple Compositing in the Compositing Workspace
Introduction to Sculpting Workspace
First Keyframes and Animationen
Rendering of Animations

>> Blender Online-Training – Rendering with Eevee and Cycles | Visualisierungsakademie Schweiz, June 2021

On June 3 and 4 I give an Online-Training on Rendering in Blender -> https://visualisierungs-akademie.ch/bildung/blender-vertiefung/

Two days of intensive advanced training for everyone who wants to use Blender to create sophisticated materials and visualizations for architecture, product design, games & film.
In addition to photorealistic rendering, you will also learn techniques for non-photorealistic rendering for animation, motion design, manga, comics and architecture / product sketching.

Some of the topics you learn in this course:

Cycles Render-Engine for Photorealism
Physical Lighting and Cameras
Eevee for Realtime Rendering
Shader Editor
Building complex Shaders
Creating photorealistic Materials
Architecture- & Design Materials
Detail-Sculpting & Baking
PBR Workflows
Image-Finishing with the internal Compositor
Exchang with Photoshop, After Effects & NUKE
Internal Freestyle Renderer for Sketch & Toon
Creating Freestyle Materials
Creating Comic Shader
Refining Comic & Manga Stile in the Compositor

For further information, please visit this website:
https://visualisierungs-akademie.ch/bildung/blender-vertiefung/

On request I also teach this online course in English. Please do not hesitate to ask your questions (info(at) pixeltrain.net). I am always happy, to hear from everyone who is interested to become an Artist in Blender, Nuke or Houdini FX.

If you have any questions, please write me on this adress: info (at) pixeltrain.net.

>> Blender Animation Training | Visualisierungsakademie Schweiz, June 2021

On June 17 and 18 I give an Online-Training on Animation in Blender -> „Introduction to Animation and Rigging“

You learn how to work with the powerful Animation Tools of Blender. You get to know helpful add-ons for MotionGraphics and Rigging and you build your first technical and organic animation rigs. We bring camera animations to life and also learn how to export these animations for game engines like Unity, Unreal or Godot. You will get to know Timeline, Dopesheet, Graph Editor, NLA, Shapes and Drivers.

For further information, please visit this website:
https://visualisierungs-akademie.ch/bildung/blender-animation/

On request I also teach this online course in English. Please do not hesitate to ask your questions (info(at) pixeltrain.net). I am always happy, to hear from everyone who is interested to become an Artist in Blender, Nuke or Houdini FX.

If you have any questions, please write me on this adress: info (at) pixeltrain.net.

Hope to see you soon!

Yours,
Helge

Find more information on www.pixeltrain.net

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/pixeltrain3DVFXTrainings

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pixeltrain3d

26. October 2020

Blender 2.9 – Comping of Light- & Data Passes & Rendering in Cycles

26. October 2020 By admin

The first module of my „Blender 2.9 for Production“ series is done. In this first module we’ve talked about the build-in node-based Compositor of Blender 2.9 and how to work with it in an effective integrated workflow. You have learned how you set up Render-Layers and -Passes and how to work also with external OpenEXRs from other 3D-Applications and Renderers. My conclusion is, that this Compositor is a really powerful addition to every workflow and I am hoping for more improvements in the future.

01 Introduction to the Blender Compositor Workflow

02 Basic Compositing Tasks in Blender 2.9 Compositor

03 RenderLayers, Collections & Ray-Visibility

04 RenderLayers, LightPasses & DataPasses

05 Working with Light- & Data-Passes, Alphas and much more

I hope, you enjoyed this series and learned a lot. But for now I will dive into the new Houdini 18.5 stuff.

Let’s say it like that „I will be back“ 😉 Blender 2.91 is around the corner and I will continue this „Blender 2.9 for Production“ series with the 2D- & 3D-Tracking system.

If you have questions or topics, which should be added, please let us know.

If you like Helge’s Tutorials, give him some support to go on!

If you want to support Helge Maus for publishing more free tutorials, you can join his Patreons:
https://www.patreon.com/pixeltrain3d

Or if you want to buy me a coffee or pizza, here’s my Tip Jar:
https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=72PHXB852BW5A

Thanks for your support!

Find more information on www.pixeltrain.net

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/pixeltrain3DVFXTrainings

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/helge.maus

1. October 2020

Blender 2.9 for Production

1. October 2020 By admin

Learn the Compositing Workflow inside of Blender!

Today, I have started a new tutorial series for Blender 2.9 “Blender 2.9 for Production”.

This tutorial series „Blender 2.9 for Production“ focuses on Blender 2.9 as a full Production Suite for (Indie) 3D- & VFX Productions. In this tutorials, I will explain how to work with the different Modules of Blender 2.9 and how they are connected to each other. I will give you an introduction of the specific functionalities, but also the production context and workflows, which can help you to use Blender in your productions.

The first tutorial is online now on my YouTube – enjoy!

These topics are covered:

Overview over the series
Understanding the Blender Render Process
Rendersettings
Image Editor Window
Direct Saving of Render Results
Images in Blender’s Memory
Re-open a previous render
Slots for Comparison
View Layers (Renderlayers) & Render-Channels / Passes / AOVs
Differences in saving Stills vs. Animations
Understand Blender’s Post Processing Pipeline
Adding Channels in the View Layer Properties
Denoising Data, Mist, Cryptomatte Passes
Renderlayers & Composite Node
Loading pre-rendered images or sequences
Outputting compositing results as EXRs
Adding Output Channels for the EXR export
Using the Node Wrangler
Adding useful Keyboard Shortcuts
Node Search Shortcut
Adding some Quick Favorites
Adding Nodes to the stream
Deleting Nodes
Working effective with the Viewer Node
Backdrop Image / Image Viewer
Saving out final stills directly
Finding the control widgets for special nodes
Performance Settings
Sampling Colors
Float normalized Colors Adding a Glow
Rendering & Comping a whole animation at once

If you have questions or topics, which should be added, please let us know.

If you want to support Helge Maus for publishing more free tutorials you could join his Patreons: https://www.patreon.com/pixeltrain3d

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