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Speed Modeling Fabric and Pipes

In this sci-fi tutorial, I go over how to use speed modeling concepts to quickly create and iterate a room design utilizing a modifier based fabric and pipes workflow. Hope you enjoy.

Here's ...

3 minute bottle

Hey everyone, here's a quick modeling exercise where I go through how to use modifiers and remeshing to create a bottle object.

You may also see there are a couple of interesting materials in...

Using modifiers to create a non-destructive Syd Mead Orb

Hey all,

I was recently approached by a concept designer wanting information on how to create a SYD MEAD like orb, which he provided a picture of.

I spend quite a few hours trying out d...

Design with Metaballs tutorial

Hey folks,

Even if you're not going to join the IDEATION CREATION speed model exercise (http://cw1.me/discord) you will probably...

New IDEATION CREATION challenge

Begins tomorrow: a new IDEATION-CREATION speed model challenge: Hibernation chamber. I'll provide 1. humanoid robot, 2. metaball tute to get you started; 3. I'll throw in some beta DESIGN MAGIC #ki...

Calculate surface intersection from 2 objects

Both Lightwave and SketchUp have for decades the ability to calculate the surface intersection of two objects without having to boolean cut, intersect, or union them. I recently was wondering why B...

New Universal Glass Material: Both Cycles and EEVEE!

Hey everyone,

I've been studying 3D Glass for some time now. Many of you may already know about my free glass EEVEE materials on Gumroad, and also in EEVEE Materials and the free KO-Materials...

Sci-Fi Whiteroom tutorial

Follow this tutorial and there should be everything you need in the linked KPACK. Instructions on how to install it in the first couple of minutes. Works with KIT OPS FREE or KIT OPS PRO.

Sor...

Another ribbing tutorial

Hey folks!

Well, I'm at it again. I keep on in pursuit of the ultimate ribbing workflow. For me, key is the ability to visualize it *before* I finalize it. This is about as close as I've gott...

Huge Blender UX issue fix

How many times have you accidentally hit the 1 or 2 key in object mode and watched as your collections disappeared? And then you start clicking through things trying to figure out which collection ...

Some work I'm doing on a new tutorial

I want to show how to quickly create a sci-fi room like this, complete with the Capsule rooms. I'm working on the tutorial now and when it's done, I'll share the files here.

Free GUI KPACK for Patreon Customers

Hey everyone!

Created this KPACK with SYNTH and BATCH and then created a video showing you how to use it. Check it out.

When you download the KPACK, it comes with full resolution thumbn...

IDEATION CREATION: 2nd workshop completed

Hey guys,

This video goes over the second workshop for IDEATION CREATION. Here we focused on the concept of iteration-- and it's importance to creating good designs. The first part of this vi...

IDEATION CREATION Workshop 24hrs Monitor Array

So our next IDEATION CREATION workshop starts tomorrow, Monday, in the evening. It will last for 24 hours. This is not a competition. The goal is to work on the concept of iteration as used in desi...

New random location node group

Really easy to use with your existing textures (and all of the EEVEE Materials System mats too!). Check it out. I've included the file below:

Drones (and model)

Hey folks, here's a free drone model and scene. It was created for another one of the IDEATION CREATION workshop--this one was 24 hours total. GREEZYBEAR will be including this drone INSERT in a ne...

Create Frames and Ribs

Hey everyone,

For awhile now, I've wanted to create a workflow to create things like custom spaceframes and die cast rib armature structures for an overall industrial look to some objects. On...

IDEATION-CREATION

So, my good buddy Andrew, who goes by the name GREEZYBEAR on Discord, and I were talking about some speed modeling challenges. It's a good way to get your feet wet in design by not obsessing over d...

Some stuff I've been working on

Hey everyone,

I've been working on building a "speed model" workflow using a custom set of KIT OPS INSERTS from a KPACK I'm calling "Design Magic." 

It's pretty much a rapid way to...

Greeble City

Here's the scene-- only works with SYNTH. Auto-generated and rendered 30 of these in only 13 minutes using K-Cycles. Also, unzip S-Greebles.zip and put them in your SYNTH_Masterfolder along with th...

Microdisplacement Mini-Course

Hey folks,

I just completed this video and as promised, I wanted to share with you the scene file, the greeble SYNTH recipe, and the KPACK that goes with it all. Unzip the S-Spacestation.zip ...

Thought you might enjoy seeing these

I'm still working on the tutorial, and I'll have lots to share. I've created a great new Space KPACK with a bunch of stuff, including all the greebles you see here as well as materials.

I'm w...

Written tutorial on Displacement and Microdisplacement

Hey everyone,

Here's a tutorial on Displacement and Microdisplacement in Blender-- something some of you wanted. Hope it helps!

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Earth model for you all

Hey everyone, I thought I'd share this Earth model with you. Here's a video showing you how to use it. The zip file is below-- just unzip and put in any KPACK folder and refresh KIT OPS and you sho...

SYNTH + K-Cycles

Hey folks, been playing around with a new beta version of SYNTH combined with a new beta version of KIT OPS 2 PRO, and created some interesting workflows that I'll be sharing soon.

One of t...

K-Cycles: Just ridiculous

Wow.

Just WOW! Eric Klein shared with me his years long work optimizing Cycles for SPEED and ease of use, and OH... MY... GOSH...

It's seriously fast-- fast enough that I'm now consid...

Off the beaten path

So hey all, just thought I'd share some interesting stuff I've found lately.
First off, I've been a big fan of e-ink tablets for awhile now. I bought many of them to test them and finally settle...

Update and some new materials

Hey gang, 

I know it's been awhile. Lot's going on. Many of you heard about my father's passing. Thanks so much for the well wishes. Only 7 days afterwards, my mother-in-law passed as we...

My Father passed

My Dad died 2 days ago. He was 90 and died of kidney failure. One of my sisters was at his side here in Austin when he went.

I am named as his executor-- and it's the first time I've had to d...

Some Free Cables

Sometimes, cables can really helps sell as scene. I have a few cable sets I use for a lot of quick sketches, like the one above. As ususal, unzip and put the "CablesFinished" folder into a KIT OPS ...