The Cicada Princess

It's been a long time since I have mentioned any puppet related items here and this is too good not to share.  For years I have been kicking around the idea of meshing puppeteering with stop motion so I am glad to have discovered THE CICADA PRINCESS which does all of that and more.

Watch the vid:

Cicada Princess from Mauricio Baiocchi on Vimeo.

Go to the official site for more details in this amazing project and even help out by donating to it.

(h/t to Puppetvision)

Blender 3D Rigging

It's been ages since I have posted any good tutorial links for Blender 3D, so here is a great beginner how-to on character/model rigging.

Get Blender 3D here - it's free as air, peeps.



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Sculpting with Blender

For anyone doing any sort of creature design work including full figured creatures to animate and make-up or mask concepts, ZBrush is a fantastic software tool to use.  However, for many the price is what keeps most aspiring artists from not utilizing it.

Fortunately I have discovered, after being away from it for so long, that Blender, which is a free open-source 3D modeling program, now has a sculpting tool.  This is as close to ZBrush as you can get and the price can't be beat.

So with that in mind here is a awesome three-part tutorial on sculpting Blender blender basics to get you on the right track:







 The program can be downloaded here.

BLENDER TUTORIALS FOR NOOBS

It's been awhile since I last used Blender but for those who have just downloaded it for the first time and, like myself, totally at a loss when you look at the Blender screen then here are some official tutorials for you. Check them out.

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BLENDER TUTORIALS

For the love of Frankenstein! What is it with Blender video tutorials? Are they all as bad as the ones I have seen on Youtube. It seems that there should be some sort of Videocopilot version of Blender. By any chance does anyone know of any good tutorials to share?