3D

CGI Compositing Steps: Bringing the Magic Together CGI Compositing Steps – wow, where do I even begin? Thinking about compositing always takes me back to those late nights staring at a screen, layers upon layers of digital stuff, trying to make a dinosaur look like it’s *actually* stomping through a jungle or a spaceship feel […]

Blender Render Tips… Man, oh man, have I spent some serious hours staring at that progress bar creep across the screen. For years, it felt like a mystery box – sometimes the render came out beautiful, other times it was a noisy mess, and sometimes it just took forever. Like, leave-it-running-all-night-and-hope-for-the-best forever. Learning the ropes,

Motion Design Basics… man, thinking about it takes me back. It feels like just yesterday I was staring at a blank screen, totally lost, trying to figure out how to make a simple box bounce. Fast forward a bit, and now I get to play around with moving images every single day. It’s become this

3D Texturing Guide… sounds kinda fancy, right? Like something only the super techy folks or movie studio wizards mess with. For a long time, that’s kinda how I saw it too. When I first dipped my toes into the wild world of making 3D stuff, I could sculpt or model objects okay. I could build

Blender Modeling Tricks : Level Up Your 3D Game Blender Modeling Tricks are something I’ve picked up over the years, sometimes by accident, sometimes by watching folks way smarter than me. When I first started messing around with 3D, it felt like trying to sculpt butter with a spoon – messy, frustrating, and things rarely

VFX Scene Setup… sounds kinda dry, right? Like, just opening a file and getting started? Nah, trust me, it’s way more than that. It’s the unsung hero, the absolute foundation of making cool visual effects actually work. If you mess this up, you’re building a skyscraper on quicksand. And I’ve built on quicksand before. It

CGI Environment Design is where the magic really happens, if you ask me. It’s not just about making cool pictures; it’s about building entire worlds from scratch inside a computer. I’ve spent a good chunk of my life messing around with 3D software, pushing pixels, and trying to make imaginary places feel real. It’s a

CGI Breakdown Shots – sounds a bit technical, right? Like something only folks deep in the visual effects industry would care about. But trust me, these things are like peeking behind the curtain of a magic show. They pull back the layers and show you how the impossible gets made possible on screen. I’ve spent

3D Character Workflow, man, it sounds official, right? Like something you’d see on a fancy flowchart in a studio. And yeah, it kinda is. But when I first stumbled into the world of making characters pop off the screen, it felt more like a chaotic adventure than a workflow. It was messy, confusing, and sometimes

“`html VFX for Beginners… sounds a bit like cracking a secret code, doesn’t it? When I first started dabbling in this stuff, that’s exactly how it felt. Like everyone else knew some magical handshake and I was just watching movies wondering, “How in the heck did they DO that?” If you’ve ever watched a superhero