Blender Fundamentals - Adjusting the Transform Orientation (Demo lesson)

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

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

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

Introduction to the Blender Sculpting

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

View Conference 2022

The amazing program for the VIEW Conference 2022 (https://www.viewconference.it) is online! If you join this year’s Conference you will have the chance to start your Blender journey with 3 workshops for beginners: Blender 3.3: The Free Production Studio for IndiesTuesday 18th, 14:00 – 15:00 Blender 3.3: First Steps into Rigging of Props and Characters in BlenderSunday 16th, 10:00-12:30 Blender 3.3: First Steps into Blender’s 3D Animation System & 2D Grease PencilMonday 17th, 11:15 –Read More

Blender BagaPie V7 Addon

Do you know BagaPie? The BagaPie Modifier is an “all in one” free Blender addon, you can use it for any purpose by Antoine Bagattini. Also watch the version V6 reel to understand a little bit more, what this great tool is capable of: https://youtu.be/FlLotEd0zFU  And the BagaPie version for Blender 3 feature reel: It started as a collection of cool tools for lazy artists and has evolved over theRead More

Blender Hair Curves - Project Heist

The next version of Blender, version Blender 3.3 LTS, is coming at the beginning of September 2022. At the moment I am testing the Alpha version to follow the developent of the new features of this version. As a LTS version, it will then receive bugfixes for 2 years, so it is a big milestone for development and production. One of the most exciting features will be the new HairRead More

Learn the Fundamentals of the Merge tool & the almighty Channel Booleans tool in Fusion Studio. Here is the Link to the tutorial and the whole series. VFX Compositing Techniques with Merge & Channel Booleans in Fusion Studio.

Fusion for Production - VFX Compositing with Fusion - 03 Deep Pixel Fundamentals, Tools & Workflows

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