🫂 Here’s a quick update on our little non-exclusive talent agency system. youtu.be/Frx92nEqVyc

💎 We’ve just released a new product! Procedural Coral, an asset library full of structural (and some life-based) generators, with a huge amount of customization. We’re also running a 25% sale for the first week. Here’s the announcement video: youtu.be/ca6w3wajK_Y #blender

🔧 I've been building a creative talent system to personally connect clients with freelancers. If you want to be added to the speculative list of freelancers then I've just put out a video with more information: youtu.be/77LDBXyJ73w #blender

☣️ Talking about volume effects in the BY-GEN generative modeling addon for Blender. V10 is exclusive to patrons until the development time is paid for. Full video on my YouTube channel. #blender

☣️ Using the reaction diffusion effect in BY-GEN V10, creating a kind of gross effect on a pumpkin. V10 is temporarily exclusive to patrons. #blender

📝 Here's a quick update video about breaking up with Adobe, learning Plasticity, becoming a creative agent, university, and other things we're working on. youtu.be/4Avqj9Qx8oI #blender

💡 Showing a lighting trick in Blender of using an emissive ring with a gradient in Cycles (from the Afterglow asset library). #blender

☣️ Talking about mesh effects in the BY-GEN generative modeling addon for Blender (pre-release for patrons). Full video on my YouTube channel. #blender

💡 Playing with the studio cage lighting assets in Blender (from the Afterglow asset library) and using them to light a prehistoric dolphin fossil. #blender

☣️ Talking about surface effects and imported node trees in the BY-GEN generative modeling addon for Blender. Full video on my YouTube channel. #blender

Talking about Hex Scatter for Blender - What it is, and why we made it. #blender

☣️ BY-GEN V10 for Blender is now available for patrons! It will be in pre-release until the development overtime has been paid for, and then it will become free for everyone. #blender

☣️ Finally! BY-GEN Version 10 is now available in pre-release. Here's a quick breakdown video. More to come in the future: youtu.be/ZbvDazHPLOc #blender

💡 Playing with a double-border image as an environmental lighting source in Blender using Afterglow. #blender

☣️ The new version of our generative modeling addon (BY-GEN) for Blender 5.0+ is almost ready, thanks to funding from my patrons. Here’s a little update video: youtu.be/5Z0mOP6VO40 #blender

⭐ We are currently working on Hex Scatter V2 for Blender! Infinite, semi-procedural materials from non-seamless texture sources. Triplanar / biplanar projection, hexagonal cell blending with PBR height maps, normal correction and more: youtu.be/FVJ8VAA-iNo #blender

💡 Getting unique environmental lighting profiles with Afterglow in Blender. #blender

💡 Talking about using image inputs as environmental light sources in Afterglow for Blender. #blender

🪨 Thanks to support from the patrons, version 5 of the free Community Material Pack is now in pre-release, which means once the overtime is paid for, all of these material will be available for everyone. #b3d #blender #blender3d

📂 I have updated my Blender startup file and theme to version 5.0.1, available on my Gumroad. Here’s a quick video: youtu.be/DJQ7d7oNfeI #b3d #blender #blender3d

✨ Thanks to support from the patrons, I have started working on a free sample for Afterglow which will one day be available for the Blender community. Join our patreon community to help out! #b3d #blender #blender3d

🦕 Today I’m putting my lighting tools to the test on a prehistoric dolphin fossil in Blender. youtu.be/4lrWN0vLqhg #b3d #blender #blender3d

📂 Here’s a quick tip for optimizing your asset files in Blender. #b3d #blender #blender3d

🧑‍💻 I finally built myself a private render farm in my studio using Flamenco and Python. Here’s a little chat about some of the issues I bumped into: youtu.be/HfOGZi4aH8k #b3d #blender #blender3d

🖥️ I’m working on some updates for my studio, including an audio-visual workspace for animated shorts and a network system for file sharing (and local render farm), along with a local project wiki system powered by PureRef. Here’s a quick chat about it: youtu.be/5ASXL_n-CAs #b3d #blender #blender3d

☁️ Talking about creative discoveries and playing with volumes. File on Patreon for silver-tier members. #b3d #blender #blender3d

📦 In today’s video, I’m making a test version of BY-GEN available to patrons, adding a whole load of materials to the community material pack, and working on a free sample version of Afterglow. youtu.be/y0A6NMl0khU #b3d #blender #blender3d

💡 Talking about finding new perspectives by dividing spaces into ‘lighting domains’, from the Afterglow display case update. #b3d #blender #blender3d

🌿 Talking about the principle of the distribution of detail in environment art while taking a look at screenshots from Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. Full video on the Reference Board channel. #3dart #environmentart #avatar

💡 Talking about how I got a hexagonal glass roughness effect in Blender. File on Patreon for silver-tier members. #b3d #blender #blender3d

🌍 Over on the Reference Board channel, I took a quick look at the environment art of Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, and talking about how you might recreate bioluminescence: youtu.be/4pdn91XHMaQ #3dart #avatar #3d

⭐ Someone let me know about a new place where products were being pirated, so I’ve shared some thoughts. youtu.be/v8v9WJu0auo #b3d #blender #blender3d

💎 Free: Community Material Pack V4! My patrons have successfully managed to fund this update, meaning it is now available for everyone! (This was just a small update to test the free project wage system). See more here: youtu.be/v2k-gnMJSco #b3d #blender #blender3d

💡 A little lighting tip for using virtual display setups for highlighting different focus areas of objects. #b3d #blender #blender3d

📸 In today’s video, I’m giving an update on the blend stream website project. youtu.be/9ZDbNeBBdVM #b3d #blender #blender3d

🧬 Today, I’m giving myself a render challenge by infecting Blender with Covid. youtu.be/GCyj2UteAsA #b3d #blender #blender3d

🤔 Recently, I saw a thread on the Blender subreddit complaining about tutorials not explaining every action, so I wanted to talk about it. youtu.be/9aRWCCQ-9pc #b3d #blender #blender3d

🎃 Here’s just a fun little video talking about some of the Blender resources added to the Patreon last month. youtu.be/3fHTbA9f_-U #b3d #blender #blender3d

💡 Very quick and simple tip - often times I keep a wireframe view in the corner of the workspace for realtime previews of camera angles when I can't be bothered to keep swapping between viewport and render. #b3d #blender #blender3d

💡 Sharing a quick material tip of blending procedural materials with scan textures to make them more grounded. There are much more powerful ways to do this, but I've been using this method recently. #b3d #blender #blender3d

💡 Blender tip for putting text within glass, from a recent video where I tested a concept for display case lighting for Afterglow. #b3d #blender #blender3d

New to my Patreon is a procedural rusty metal material. Since I want to do an update for Modular Metals in the future, I asked Dee (a creator friend) to have a go at metal degradation so we could compare techniques. Available to silver-tier patrons. #b3d #blender #blender3d

🎉 We managed to raise a lot of money for Blender this month. Here’s a quick recap: youtu.be/TqpBcl4ws9M #b3d #blender #blender3d

💡 Talking about the new display cases update for Afterglow - my collection of lighting assets for Cycles in Blender. #b3d #blender #blender3d

✨ Since it's Black Friday, my products (Afterglow, Hex Scatter, Modular Workspaces, etc) are on sale on both Superhive and Gumroad. Now is a good chance to pick them up. youtu.be/f9pFeTXi2BM #b3d #blender #blender3d

New to my Patreon (Silver): Dee’s Scans - a collection of food and miscellaneous item scans as a Blender asset library, including higher and lower poly versions. #b3d #blender #blender3d

Having fun playing with lighting in Blender, using some character art from a recent video. #b3d #blender #blender3d

🗿 Demonstrating my geometry proximity shading method in Blender with a quick sculpted guide object. #b3d #blender #blender3d

💡 Afterglow Version 2.2 is now available for Blender, featuring a variety of display case assets, as well as the recent physical definition material. Check out the new video for information and tips: youtu.be/2-_zp3l7_cU #b3d #blender #blender3d

🎉 Blender 5.0 is here, so let’s chat about the new features: youtu.be/EUZX2_wRB8U #b3d #blender #blender3d