CBailey Film - Sci-Fi Blender Tutorials

JUNE 2020 PROJECT FILE - Epic Space Battles - Spider-Bot Model

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Here is the Spider-Bot model for you to download and use in your own projects! Hope you have a lot of fun with it.  To import the model simply go to file>append select the file then open the collections folder and import the "SpiderBot" collection.  Enjoy...

JUNE 2020 PROJECT FILE - Epic Space Battles - Hero Ship Model

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Epic Space Battles Part 3 - Warp & Thrusters

This episode starts off with a bang! We open with the first two shots of our epic space battle, then we begin the process of breaking it down and building it step by step.  We cover a lot in this episode, including how to animate UV's, creating a much better asteroid material, refining the particle physics, adding in effectorts, animating cameras and more! In fact, it takes the entire epis...

JUNE 2020 PROECT FILES - Epic Space Battles Part 3

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Thank you!!!! We've reached goal #2!

Thanks so much for all the support team! With you're help we've now smashed through our first two goals.  Now that we have over $100 a month I'll start up a monthly Q&A stream on the channel.  Let me know if you have any topics you'd like covered and I'll start organising it.  On behalf of everyone who watches on YouTube, let me say a big thank you for helping make this happe...

Epic Space Battles - Bonus 5 - Rigging The Spider-Bot

Good morning team! Here's your next bonus episode, rigging the spider-bot! Hope you really enjoy it :-) Thanks again for all your support!

MAY 2020 PROJECT FILE - Epic Space Battles - Part 2

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Epic Space Battles - Bonus 4 - Modeling The Spider-Bot

Hello team! Here's the next bonus episode for Epic Space Battles.  In this tutorial we'll finish off the spider bot model.  Hope you're excited! Let's do it!

Epic Space Battles - Part 2: Building An Animation Machine

Hi team! Here's the next episode of Epic Space Battles! Hope you enjoy it! I'll switch it to premiere tomorrow so if you don't catch it in the next 12 hours don't worry, it'll go live again Wednesday morning.  

Epic Space Battles - Bonus 3 - Modeling The Spider-Bot

This is the first of two modelling episodes where we build the spider bot.  Using nothing but our concept sketch we will rough out the shapes and slowly refine the overall model.  Enjoy!

Epic Space Battles - Bonus 2 - Modeling Crash Course

In the second bonus episode I take you through an introduction to modelling.  When we get into creating the ship I'll be moving fast and throwing around a lot of terms.  This episode will get you up to speed before we jump in! 

Epic Space Battles - Bonus 1 - Concept Design

In this bonus episode I take you through the process of concept design as I work out how I want the space ship models to look.   Enjoy!

MAY 2020 PROJECT FILE - Epic Space Battles - Part 1

If you are a All-Access Patron or higher this month (May 2020) you'll have received a direct message with a download link.

First three bonus episodes coming soon!

Hi team, just wanted to give you a quick update about the modelling series.  I'll be posting up the first two tutorials soon.  In Bonus 1 we'll cover the concept design process as I mock up the designs in Photoshop.  Bonus 2 will be a simple crash course in modeling to get anyone who's new up to speed.  Bonus 3 will be where we begin to build the spider bot ship. 

Epic Space Battles - Part 1- Creating An Asteroid Field

Welcome to part one of this new and exciting blender tutorial series!!! In this episode we create about a billion stars, thousands of asteroids and some nebula... in 40 min.  Buckle up! This is just the start of what will eventually be a very EPIC SPACE BATTLE.  Subscribe to get notifications when each new episode launches.  We'll be covering some exciting material through this s...

Project files are coming this week!

Get ready! I'll be switching all the download links over to the new series for the 9.99 patrons and up. The first episode's project file will go live tomorrow for you to download and use! I'm still aiming to have the first spider bot episode up this week as well, either Thursday or Friday at this point.  Hope you're excited!

Early Episode: Epic Space Battles Part 1

Hey patrons! Here's your exclusive chance to watch the first episode of Epic Space Battles before everyone else! I hope you're excited for the new series, and I hope you enjoy this first ep! I'll also start posting the modelling tutorials as well hopefully later this week.  The download link for assets for the 9.99 tier and up will also switch over this week and you can start downloading t...

Next Series and Bonus Patreon Episodes!

Hi team! Hope you're having a great week.  I did a stream this morning discussing the next series.  You can check it out here:  https://youtu.be/9v1o7IKfpWc?t=612 

The plan will be to launch next week, and along with the main series I'll be posting a special mini series here just for the patrons...

First look at the next series... time to get excited!

Hi Team, wanted to give you a first look at what's coming.  I'm planning on posting this up to youtube soon along with an announcement about the next series!  Hope you're excited! This render was done with Eevee believe it or not.  I'm not even sure if I'll use cycles for this one! Who knows... this image was a test mock up to make sure the ships looked good in the scene and it g...

A look at Grease Pencil

Hi team :-) Here's a look at something I'm working on for a client.  They gave me a set of frames drawn in illustrator and asked me to bring them to life. I thought it was a great excuse to use grease pencil.  At first I thought it wasn't going to work, but slowly I've figured it out.  Fingers crossed they like it! Let me know if you're interested in grease pencil.  

Early draft for a new episode

Hi team! 

This is a draft video for the next series - I wanted to see what you thought of it. I've never done one where I just work up a concept sketch.  Do you think it's interesting enough to include? Thanks for the feedback!

Bounty Hunters Den - Blender 2.82 - Part 9: Lightmaps VS Dynamic Lighting

In this tutorial we jump into Unreal Engine to explore the crazy world of lightmaps and dynamic lighting.  We talk about how to get good lighting and explain the process of optimising lighting with lightmaps.  Let's get into it!

Free Download - A cool sci-fi tech shader for Eevee!

Thanks for checking out my Patreon page! To say thank you, here's a free cool shader just for you!   This groovy sci-fi tech shader works in Eevee and Cycles (Eevee pictured above).  Hope you have fun messing around with it! It uses a cool technique of using a texture shader to drive the vector position of a second texture shader.  You can create some really wild effects wit...

Making Progress on the next Series!

Hi Team! I've been making progress on the next tutorial series.  Here's a quick glimpse at how the spider-bot is shaping up!  

Here's my plan: I'm thinking of making a modelling and rigging tutorial for the spider-bot and the hero spaceship, but only releasing it for you guys as a Patron only exclusive and then selling it later on the Blender Market.  The full series on You...

Blender Market Store Incoming!

Hi team! I'm excited to announce that I'll have a blender market store up hopefully this time next week.  The first product will be the project files, video tutorial files, and a special asset pack for the Particle City Tutorial Series.  I'll let you know when it's live!  

Early Episode! Bounty Hunter's Den Part 11

Hey team! Hope you're having a great week.  Here's the final episode of the bounty hunter's den! I can't believe it blew out to 11 episodes! Insane! Hope you really enjoy it.  Let me know what you think of it.  Thanks!

The Bounty Hunter's Den Part 8 - Baking materials For Eevee & UE4

In part 8 we discuss how to bake out materials from Blender so that we can use them in other programs.  We then take our baked materials over to Unreal Engine 4 and setup all our nodes so that our materials match.  We also cover some great tips and a few gotchas to look out for.  Hope you enjoy it! 

Behind the scenes planning for the next series!

Hi Team, 

This is an exclusive post for everyone that's partnered at $9.99 and up.  Here are some sketches I did today for the ships I'd like to make for the next tutorial.  Like we've discussed on the discord I'm thinking I'll go with the dog fight in the asteroid field idea.  The top image are some ideas for a spider-bot craft that will hunt our hero ship.  The ...

Bounty Hunter's Den Trailer

Here's the trailer for the finished scene from The Bounty Hunter's Den series! I've had a lot of fun making this one! Hope you're enjoying it too!  Remember, everyone who is a Patron at $9.99 and up will get a download of all the project files from this series.  That means every blender file used in the tutorials, and all the Unreal Engine 4 files (except for the music, sound effects ...

Early Episode! Part 10 of the Bounty Hunter's Den

Hi Team,

Here's part 10 of the bounty hunter's den for you to enjoy :-) I should have episode 11 (the final for the series) up soon.  Hope you like it! Thanks again for supporting the channel!

-Chris