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The grand mantis series Part 3: Material setup for Luxrender! Organic materials in physically-based renderers like Luxrender tend to be difficult. Unless Frederik Steinmetz is your tutor!
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One of the big new features in Blender 2.61 is the addition of "speaker objects" that act as audio sources in 3D space. neXyon, the author of that cool new feature, has created a good tutorial on how to use them.

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This is a double-tutorial! A grunge title animation and a sleek god ray logo reveal. Learn how to create two different intros in just one tutorial! And find out how to keep your noodles clean using node groups.
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Thursday, 07 July 2011 21:58

Tutorial: God-Ray Logo Reveal in Blender

A simple yet very powerfull approach to reveal a logo is using the all-majestic god-rays. Of couse you can achieve that all in Blender - this tutorials shows how!
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Tracking in Blender is currently in active development. The workflow is still limited and complicated, but already allows popular 2D tracking tasks like image stabilization and a four-corner-pin. Three tutorials by Sebastian König and Francois Tarlier show how to achieve them.

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Friday, 17 June 2011 12:56

Tutorial: A 2D Hologram in Blender

There are many ways to create a hologram effect in Blender. This tutorial shows how to create a 2D hologram from a video that looks very much like in the movie St*r W*rs.
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Saturday, 09 April 2011 16:36

Tutorial: Light Streaks in Blender

Cool looking light streaks are not exclusive to commercial products like AE. In fact, you can create those in Blender as well. With full control over speed and timing thanks to the motion trail addon.
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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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