Hello!
Hope you've all had a great 2022 and getting ready for the new year :) Please enjoy this short vlog from Norway where I stumble around in the snow!
Looking back at 2022, I enjoyed making videos (most of the time). It felt a bit rough with all the pressure from the super viral robotic arm video, so I ended up taking a long break this summer. But this fall I finally start...
2022-12-31 12:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey!!
I've finally made a proper tutorial again, and this time we're making two different rigs in Blender! One is a six-legged creature, and the other is a walking hand creature.
The rigs included in this post are t...
2022-12-13 23:54:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello!
(I'm back home from the Blender conference, and it was a blast! Check out my three previous posts to see my vlogs and pictures from Amsterdam!)
In my latest YouTube video I tried to speed model a spooky pumpkin! This video is an edited version of the 2022-10-30 19:02:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Blender conference is over, and it was amazing!! Below are some pics of my favourite moments.
We got to meet the legend himself, which was awesome. He was so down to earth and cool!
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A short debrief of the second day of Blender Conference!
Hanging out with KaizenTutorials, Decoded, Erindale and Derek Elliot!
Loving the city!! Really beautiful (and warm) here!
Here is the ...
2022-10-29 07:38:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Sharing some of my thoughts from the first day of the Blender conference!
As mentioned in the video, I’ll be joining the blender podcast at 11:30 CEST (but there will also be a VOD which I’ll try and share later)
Let me know if you’re at the conference!
- Asbjørn
2022-10-28 06:31:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello! After some time in the making, I have finally launched my merch!
As many of you know, I am from Norway, where we have a lot of fjords, so I wanted to have some merch inspired by this beautiful view! For example, this T-shirt (...
2022-10-23 11:03:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello! The glass tutorial is coming in a few days, so I just wanted to record a little thank you for your support while I’ve been working on this video.
Also hope to see some of you on the blender conference next week!
- Asbjørn
2022-10-18 22:06:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello!
I just posted a new video where I'm transforming a cell phone into a walking robot. I have wanted to try this for a while, so I'm very happy with this little animation!
The entire process took 9h and 45m, which mak...
2022-09-14 19:21:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey!
As you might know, I've been exploring hard surface creature modeling, rigging and animating lately, so I thought I'd make a tutorial about the entire process: https://youtu.be/ktXD_WRMY8E
With a run time of over 50 minutes, its my longest tutorial yet! So feel free to watch it in multiple sittings, or m...
2022-08-11 12:18:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello! It's been quite a while.
Hope you're having a nice summer! I have been on a little vacation, but couldn't resist diving deep into kit bashing and rigging! So here is an animated rig I have made this week. It's a six legged mechanical creature with some really cool parts! You can see it in action here!<...
2022-07-31 14:51:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello!
In the latest video we'll be simulating our own handwriting using some interesting cloth simulation tricks! This is the technique I've been teasing a little bit on instagram, and I must admit even after multiple weeks of testing...
2022-05-30 11:48:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello!
In the second episode of Creating Whatever I Want (but I want too much), I ended up making an organic looking creature following a curve! It was a lot of fun, and I share a bit of my process of feeling stuck and trying to overcome creative block.
The technique used is very similar to my older 2022-04-14 16:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello!
In the latest video, we're recreating a cinematic lighting setup I find myself using quite often. I tend to use it as a starting point for placing shadows in the scene, but it often ends up being the only light source I need for an entire project!
2022-04-06 11:11:46 +0000 UTC
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Hello! The latest video just went live, and I am very excited for two reasons:
Firstly, in this video I get to have full creative freedom (with some challenging creative constraints), and it was REALLY fun to create. I had an amazing time, so if this is a video format that you like, I'll be happy to do more of it!
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2022-03-14 13:01:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey!
In my latest video (part 2 of the robotic arms tutorial) I experimented with some different use cases for the armature. So in this project one of the robotic arms is a bird's head, and two robotic arms are its walking legs! You can see the animated result with sound effects 2022-02-12 14:19:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys!
Here is the first project file from the stuff I've been teasing for a while. The latest tutorial is up on YouTube, where we model and rig robotic arms and attach them to motion capture!
So this project file is from one of the cinematics I made for the tutorial, and I think it has some interesting features...
2022-01-27 10:30:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys,
Just wanted to break the silence with a little update!
I have had some time off this holiday and first half of january. I thought I'd be back in business right as soon as 2022 would begin, but for some reason I struggled a bit with finding the rhythm of making videos again. I almost got a bit scared thinking I was burned out!
However, last week I suddenly found mysel...
2022-01-23 14:25:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey!
After all the talk about EXR and the advantage of getting all the high dynamic range data out of Blender, I thought I'd make a proper HDR render for the holidays!
The shape consists of a curve object, duplicated 17 times using an array modifier.
2021-12-20 11:44:52 +0000 UTC
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Hello guys!
Remember the over-the-top 3D diagram of the polling results from the EXR tutorial? Here are the project files for the cinematic render!
The animation uses a simple rigid body simulation to tip the cards over. A...
2021-12-19 10:11:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys!
In this video we'll use Blender, Davinci Resolve and DJV to get real time playback of EXR sequences. We'll also get filmic view transform working in both Davinci Resolve and DJV, which makes this a pretty smooth workflow for previewing so much data!
Stick around at the end for an extra comparison of EXR vs PNG!
Hope you'll like it!
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PS: I know that all ...
2021-12-17 10:15:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello!
More caustics! At first glance, this can look similar to the previous experiments about caustics in Blender, but this time I've explored a new and simpler workflow. Instead of simulating this procedurally, we'll use video footage of real caustics! Then a simple color ramp can be used to extract the data we need.
2021-12-06 15:50:22 +0000 UTC
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A sci-fi building and a flying car composited on real footage!
I've worked a few days on this scene, but decided the workflow might end up being too comprehensive for a short tutorial. Therefore I thought it would be great to do a VFX breakdown instead! So if this format works out and is interesting to watch, I'll be happy to do more of it for other projects.
This video is also a wa...
2021-12-05 17:00:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello! Here is the 3D model (no lighting, no textures) of the 2D/3D chess set as created in this video.
The attached blend file is licensed under GPL 3.0 (see attached license document).
Looking forward to see what you will create with this!
- Asbjørn
2021-11-23 14:12:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello!
Last week I experimented with the boolean modifier. So here's what I ended up with: A 3D chess set, which when viewed from above, looks like a 2D chess set!
Here is what it looks like when viewed from ...
2021-11-23 11:33:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello guys!
I've been knocked out with the cold, so I've done literally nothing for almost 2 weeks now. But yesterday I started feeling better, and explored some studio lighting ideas!
So here is a simple studio lighting setup that uses octagon shaped soft boxes. I tried replicating how act...
2021-11-10 15:04:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey! Here is the final project file from yesterday's character animation tutorial.
Thank you so much for the amazing feedback on the tutorial. It's truly a blast creating Blender tutorials for such an awesome community! Also a big thank you to all the new people who joined the Patreon, we're over 100 people here now! Ver...
2021-10-27 15:00:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Another four-legged character! This one is a crab type of creature, almost exclusively made out of glass, except for the joints and an animated gear box in the center.
Each leg has an IK target that follows a path, and the keyframes are linear. This means that if you're into creating drivers, you...
2021-10-26 12:39:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Material Viewers!
I've been experimenting some more with walk cycle rigging in Blender!
I'm very excited about how inverse kinematics can be used to give so much motion to a scene. So this rig is all about controlling the tip of the legs, and then the IK solver just figures out everything by itself. I love it!
2021-10-26 11:12:16 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys!
I've been experimenting with some rigging ideas! I'm planning on making a tutorial on the topic, but in the mean time here's an unpolished sneak peek. The project file has an exciting setup with a floor constraint and some fake wheels with parenting and constraints. No drivers!
I ...
2021-10-16 14:28:03 +0000 UTC View Post