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Sunday, 22 April 2012 14:18
Desert Explosion
This is just some old doolde I found on my harddrive, it dates back to October 2011.
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Friday, 09 September 2011 11:07
More colored smoke in Blender
There are various ways to color smoke in Blender - I combined a few of them in one simulation...
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Friday, 24 June 2011 14:50
Playing with Fire once again
A few days ago I started playing with fire in Blender once again. This time I wanted to create a style usefull for advert-like backgrounds. But since the result looked pretty cool, I ended up rendering an entire animation of slow-motion fire, anyways:
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Tuesday, 26 April 2011 14:24
Anatomy of an Explosion in Blender
When I recently created an explosion in Blender using the smoke simulation, I encountered a weird behaviour I neither could explain, nor fix. But I got an idea how to analyse the problem...
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Friday, 04 March 2011 19:46
Tutorial: Advanced Fire Shaders in Blender
Most people use very bright shaders when creating fire in Blender. But in many situations a more subtle approach works a lot better. This tutorial shows you how to get there!
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Sunday, 27 February 2011 18:36
Quick Tip: Playing with the Inkdrop Effect
The inkdrop effect is very versatile. This quick tip shows how you can achieve an astonishing ink flow by just changing a few aspects of the setup. This is another tutorial covering Nion's cool Blender effects.
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Monday, 14 February 2011 18:48
Tutorial: A cool looking Inkdrop in Blender
Inkdrops are heavily used in Motion Graphics and Design. Usually one needs to search through stock footage archives to find a fitting drop, which often also means to pay license fees. Thanks to Blender, you can now easily create perfect Inkdrops that can be tailored to your project's needs.
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Tuesday, 01 February 2011 22:05
Quick Tip: Smoke Gone Wild
Using the setup we created in the Wicked Drum of Smoke tutorial we can easily work out a scene of the smoke simulation gone completely insane as you could see in Nions first effect reel. This quick tips shows how!
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Sunday, 30 January 2011 17:47
Tutorial: Create a Wicked Drum of Smoke in Blender
The second effect of Nion's second reel shows a big drum of smoke growing dangerously bigger and bigger - a nice, simple and very educational effect I chose for my second tutorial of his grand effect reels!
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Wednesday, 26 January 2011 20:47
Tutorial: Mix Smoke of Two Different Colors
If you ever wanted to know how to mix smoke of different colors in Blender 2.5, here's a simple howto. This is the first part of my series of tutorials for Nion's excellent Blender effects. Preview video and tutorial after the jump!
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