Hello Everyone!!!

I hope you're having a good time and I wish you a good upcoming 2011!

This year have been quite special for me: I started working on blendtuts, I moved to Valencia to create a Studio with a very friend of mine... :) 2011 will be a good year, or at least I'll try to make it the better I can!

Of course, my work on blendtuts won't stop, and on this "Silence Time" I've been preparing things for you on the new year. Also, I wanted to publish a timelapse for Christmas... but it wasn't posible, I've been sick lately :S After the hollidays, I'll start publishing new tutorials again, so I hope you enjoy blendtuts the same, or even more on 2011!!

I would like to use this post for give my thanks to all the Blender team for developing such a great piece of software. We're getting closer and closer of a stable release! :o)

I want to say one more thing, and is that I really appreciate all the emails I'm getting, and I really want to answer them all, but it's not possible :( Specially, is very difficult for me to answer all the emails and comments asking for help with Blender... Believe me! I try! :D

Keep coming the next Year!! And have a NICE celebration!! ;)

Hello!
Well, it was about time of me releasing the second part of this tutorial :) On this one, we'll see how to add lighting to the scene and make a render.

Hi everyone!
Recently, a new addon ("Rotobezier", developed by Daniel Salazar, alias Zanqdo) was added to Blender, and I needed to make a tutorial about it, because it's an addon that makes a lot easier to animate bezier curves :D

Hola a todos!
Recientemente, un nuevo addon ("Rotobezier", desarrollado por Daniel Salazar, alias Zanqdo) ha sido añadido a Blender, y he decidido hacer un tutorial sobre él, pues es un addon que hace que animar curvas bezier sea más simple que antes.



Las curvas bezier tienen muchas aplicaciones si son animadas. Una de ellas es la posibilidad de utilizarlas como máscaras en el compositor de blender. Este tutorial habla sobre cómo usar y animar curvas utilizando este addon, y cómo usarlas a modo de máscaras en composición :)

He puesto la etiqueta de Experto a este tutorial, puesto que necesitaréis saber lo básico sobre blender para ser capaces de seguir y entender todos los pasos.

Espero que os guste, y el siguiente tutorial será la segunda parte de Materiales, Luces y Render!

Nos vemos!

Hi there! I decided to make this tutorial in two parts, because materials, lights and rendering work toguether, and you cannot make one of them without the other, so here on the first part, we'll talk about basic materials.

Hello! A couple of weeks ago I published a video, featuring an interesting timelapse recording method (Cinematic Timelapse post).

I got a lot of tutorial requests on this method in forums, email, blendernation... and I wanted to make the tutorial before, but I've been moving to Valencia (Spain) and I've been veeery busy, but as promised, here it is!!

Hi! The last week, blendtuts.com has registered a very high number of visits :) and I wanted to "celebrate" it by making a video with an idea that was in my head since a few months ago.



I love to see timelapses, but in 3d... I thought that recording a timelapse with smooth and "normal" camera movements should be possible, instead of seeing that lightspeed orbiting and panning around camera, that sometimes can result "a bit" crazy!

Hello!!
Since I opened blendtuts.com, I've received several emails asking for a facebook page, in order to make blendtuts easier to follow :)




You can access the blendtuts' Facebook page by clicking on this image (also from the banners at the right of the web on any moment ;)

I hope you like it! I'll publish there all new tutorials and news on blendtuts related "things" ;)
See you on Facebook!

Hi everybody!
Today, the videogames,animation,3d and technology spanish blog SantanaPanero has written an article about blendtuts.com! :D



Click on the image above to visit this interesting blog!
See you!

Hi everybody!!
This time I'll make an introduction to the organization systems that you can use into your blender scene.

Hi! A few weeks have passed since the last tutorial, I've been very busy... but here it is!

Finally we can see the very anticipated Sintel short movie!



You can click the image to go to the Sintel's blog (and view or download the movie).

Hi! This post is just to announce that a few days ago the Blender develpment reached a new official beta (2.54) state, with a lot of bugfixes since 2.53 :) (And a very cool splash screen from Sintel, yay!)



You can click the image to go to the official Blender 2.54 notes.

Hi!! Some weeks ago, we talked about creating and transforming objects. Now is time to the edit mode and the basic modelling tools! :D

Hi again!!

As I uploaded yesterday a tutorial about joining different photos into one big image... I decided to record for you the process of a more complex one, so you can take a look at it ;)



This technique is very useful for matte painting, because later, over the photo, you can add more "artificial" elements, or even compose something in 3d ;)



See you!

Hi!! This is time for photoshop!

The video is a timelapse, with voice comments over it, so you can understand what happens without having to wait for the entire process ;)



Hope you like it!

Well, I'm just creating this post for you to know that I've changed the previous post. I've added a new video explaining one more method, that a reader let me know and I found quite useful :)

Check the previous post HERE.

Cheers!

Hello!

This time I come with a more practical tutorial requested by an user, and it's about how to render wireframes over solid meshes.



Things you'll learn:
- 3 different ways of rendering wireframes on top of solid geometry
Level of complexity: Medium

You can also download the .blend HERE

EDIT-------- UPDATE:

In Blender Artists forums, somebody told me that there is actually a fourth method, and I found it useful, so I decided to make a quick video for updating this tutorial :)



See you!!

Hi!! I’m here with an introduction to the use of modifiers inside of blender 2.5.

But… I think that it will be more useful when you see the use of them on practical tutorials that are coming soon :)

That’s it! Blender 2.53 Beta has been already released!! :D

Sintel is almost finnished, and the blender development is reaching a quite stable product. I’ve been working for a few months with 2.5, and I must say that it works very very well (even it was in an early alpha stage yet!).

Hi! This time I'm posting about painting! I made this image a few weeks ago using mypaint and the gimp. It's not a tutorial, just a commented timelapse of the entire process.



The real time was about ten hours and a half. Clicking this image you can see the whole image:



Hope you enjoy it, cheers!

Well, blendtuts is now on a recent post at www.vfx-3d.blogspot.com

Well! This video is like a "wellcome" and celebration of the publishment of blendtuts.com

On it I'll talk about several ideas I have for blendtuts at this moment and for the future ;)



See you!

Hi everybody!!!

I'm pretty excited right now because blendtuts is online from this moment!!
I've been working on the idea and the web for a couple of months on my spare free time, and finally it has became real! :D

Let's hope you find it useful and everything works ok!!

Cheers! And thank you for visiting the web! ;)

Hi again! In this video I'll show you how you can have your blender software up to date.

It's not really a tutorial, but I feel that a lot of people doesn't know how to do this, and I thought it could be useful for someone.

Hi again!!

This time we'll see how to create and transform (move, rotate and scale) objects in blender 2.5.

Well! This is the first tutorial!

As the first one, we'll talk about the Blender's interface, so the people out there who is not used to Blender can understand it (at least basically).

So let's go for it! ;) You can see the video in HD on Vimeo, so you will appreciate better the buttons and all that stuff.