This tutorial is a demo lesson from my Publication „pixeltrain Blender Fundamentals >> Fast Forward“. In this tutorial, you will learn how to assign Materials through the slot system of Blender to mesh parts. You will understand what a. slot is, how to make effective selections and assignment and how to assign multiple Materials to one mesh. Here are the links for my Blender Fundamentals publication. In over 120 lessonsRead More

Blender Fundamentals - Loop Cut & Offset Loop Cut Tool (Demo lesson)

This tutorial is a demo lesson from my Publication „pixeltrain Blender Fundamentals >> Fast Forward“. In over 120 lessons with a duration of 20+ hours, I will take you through the complete fundamentals of Blender and the basic workflows you need to know to get started with this amazing free software. In this tutorial, you will learn the use of the LoopCut tool and the Offset Edge Loop Cut tool.Read More

Blender Fundamentals - Powerful Transformation Hotkeys (Demo lesson)

This tutorial is a demo lesson from my Publication „pixeltrain Blender Fundamentals >> Fast Forward“. In over 120 lessons with a duration of 20+ hours, I will take you through the complete fundamentals of Blender and the basic workflows you need to know to get started with this amazing free software. In this tutorial, you will learn how to use Blenders powerful transformation hotkeys and shortcuts. We will not onlyRead More

Fusion for Production - VFX Compositing with Fusion - 05 Fundamentals of Masks in Fusion

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

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

Fusion for Production - VFX Compositing with Fusion - 01 Installation of Reactor in Fusion & Resolve

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. This tutorial shows you how to install the free Reactor Package Manager in Blackmagic Fusion Studio and Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve and how to use it. We will install Cryptomatte,Read More

Blender 3.0 for Production - 2D & 3D Tracking Workflow - 11 Semi-automatic Tracking Workflow

Here is the next lesson of the Tracking Workshop. This time we will talk about semi-automatic tracking, which is a way of adding many trackers for shots, where you don’t want to add supervised trackers. Hope you like the lesson 🙂

Blender 3.0 for Production - 2D & 3D Tracking Workflow - 10 Object Integration, Shadow Catcher & Rotoscoping

Today, I’ve just published my next Blender 3.0 tutorial.We talk about 3D-Object Integration, Shadow Catchers & Rotoscoping in Blender 3.1 after 3D-Tracking. It’s part of my free “Blender for Production” series. Have fun!

Blender 3.0 for Production - 2D & 3D Tracking Workflow - 06 Plane-Tracking, Corner Pin & Compositing

My next free “Blender 3.0 for Production” tutorial is out.Let’s talk about plane-tracking, corner pining and the integration with the built-in compositor. Have fun!

What do I love about Blender? That working in the application is so integrated, fast & flexible, for example for shading while changing some uvs on the fly with Cycles still running. Also the amazing bunch of build-in add-ons for so many useful things, from archviz to generating trees. And, of course, the Add-ons made by talented programmers are so affordable or even free. For example this Car Rig add-on.Read More