🔴 FMX2023 🔴 🗓 Save the date ! Meet the Senior VFX Trainer Helge Maus on Friday 28 April for an online workshop. As part of FMX 2023, Helge Maus (pixeltrain) will give you an overview of the broad feature set of Blender 3.5, how the development cycles and infrastructure of this open-source tool is working and how Indies (but also pro studios) can start using this software in theirRead More
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
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: 👉Â https://youtu.be/an8IXdtTQbo In thisRead 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
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
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
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
I had two great and relaxing days with my Blender 3.2 Fundamentals training attendees last week.Such a pleasure to work with artists around the world and helping them to start their journey in this powerful environment. 🎉 The next two workshops (2-days, German language) will be 14.+15. July (Photorealistic and NPR Rendering) and 18.+19. August (Rigging & Animation). And, the new Blender Fundamentals training will be 29.+30. Sept 2022. IfRead More
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 🙂
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!