Adding Object Constraints

Title: Adding Object Constraints
Author: Groza Danut
Posted: 4/20/2013
Software: Blender 2.66a
Length: 20 minutes


The use of constraints can be sometimes confusing but the constraints are capable of speeding your work very much in certain situations. The best way that you can learn how constraints work is by experimenting so after you watch this tutorial make sure you go into Blender and experiment on your own what you learned. This way you wont forget what you just learned.

In this video is shown how to set up some constraints for a gear setup in 2 different ways. Also in the video is presented another use of the constraints along with the modifiers to create  a rope wheel.

How to create a realistic carpet

Title: How to create a realistic carpet
Author: Groza Danut
Posted: 4/9/2013
Software: Blender 2.66a
Length: 25 minutes


The new strand rendering in Cycles makes the hair rendering a lot faster, easier and more funny. The strand rendering is used in this tutorial to show you how to make a realistic looking carpet. This tutorial shows the creation of the carpet from beginning to end so everything is covered, not only the hair, so that even a beginner can follow it.

Using Volumetric Lighting in Cycles

Title: Using Volumetric Lighting in Cycles
Author: Groza Danut
Posted: 4/3/2013
Software: Blender 2.66a
Length: 10 minutes


Even if it's not possible at the moment to use volumetric lighting in Cycles you can still use a trick to get around this. In this video is presented how to do that combining a Cycles scene with a Blender Internal scene.