GIMP 2.10 is so good that I urge anyone still using the older versions to update.
And if you’re using GIMP (or Krita), then you absolutely must get G’MIC. Anyone manipulating images should have these tools available.
Fun with G’MIC filters in GIMP:
Author: Waylena
Planetarium professional since 1992. User of Free and Open Source Software since 2001.
Another great resource for learning Blender 2.8
I’m half-watching these and listening as I do other things, pausing to note differences from 2.79 that I know will trip me up.
From the official Blender YouTube channel
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLa1F2ddGya_-UvuAqHAksYnB0qL9yWDO6
And don’t forget the series by Ron Proctor: Introduction to Blender 2.80
It’s here! It’s here! Blender 2.80
Blender procedurally generated circuit board…
I saw this today on BlenderNation.
A very easy to follow demonstration of setting up nodes in Blender 2.8 to create a circuit board texture from Leroy Xie.
Direct link: https://youtu.be/9iO-7RbDSw8
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Blender Beyond Beta – 2.80rc1
Blender 2.80 Release Candidate 1 is out today.
It’s looking mighty fine and the UI has been redesigned to work the way users of most commercial software packages expect.
Give it a try!
Download it from www.blender.org.
Extract the downloaded file, then run Blender straight from the extracteed folder.
Blender modeling tools
Saw this today on BlenderNation:
https://artisticrender.com/more-than-30-blender-modeling-tools-explained/
Erik Selin created this outstanding list describing more than 30 Blender modeling tools.
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I saw this posted on Blendernation this morning:
ToxicTuba shares a list of Blender texture resources that are well-worth checking out.
Godot Engine on a rainy day
A year ago I started looking into Unity and quickly put it aside because other things came up and the frustration in learning did not motivate me to get back to it.
Here I am a year later, playing with Godot Engine on a rainy day. It is open source under the MIT license.
I must say that Godot is very clean and is working great both on my Windows 10 laptop and on my Linux machine. I’ve never used GDScript before, but the built-in editor is super helpful.
I’m in the Hello World stage of learning, but the early tutorials are already making so much more sense than I’d expected given my troubles with learning Unity. To be fair, it doesn’t necessarily mean that Godot is better than Unity. But it does mean that I can recommend the online tutorials in the Godot Engine documentation.
At the SEPA MAPS 2019 conference
My friend Ron Proctor gave a great talk on Blender 2.80 today.
He has some Blender 2.80 intro videos available.
Check them out:
Introduction to Blender 2.80 – Ron Proctor
I really need to get back to this project.
Last year’s upgrade and other things put this project on hold. I’m definitely going to resume working on it, especially since I’ve already put a lot into it.
A few production test stills made last summer before I had to put it on hold.
I’m using Blender 2.79 for this project. Newer projects will likely use 2.80.
So far I’ve also used Gimp, Inkscape and Synfig on this project.
