New Cheat Sheet (v 2.49)

As asked for...here is a Blender Cheat Sheet for version 2.49x
This is a work in progress, so if you find any errors please notify me. Thanks and enjoy!
-John Park

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PDF VERSION HERE

Very cool

Logorama from Marc Altshuler - Human Music on Vimeo.

BackDrop for Projection

Keyed Particles are the Answer

For those of us who were trying to figure out how to duplicate this build effect:

I AM from TronicStudio on Vimeo.

This looks like the answer (along with some crafty work-arounds, of course):

Blender Keyed Particles - Render from Everton Schneider on Vimeo.

I know little about keyed particles but there is ample documentation online. Just another arrow in our quivers, or whatever.

Toon Shading

Though we haven't gone over this in class, Blender does have a TOON SHADER which will allow you to get closer to a cell shaded look in your renders. There are many resources on the web, but I wanted to show you a sample image and example .blend file.

The file can be downloaded here: http://uoregon.edu/~park/472/Models/toon.blend

Note: toon shader options are availabe under the Shaders tab in the Shader Panel. Ambient occlusion IS on in this file. Edges are on (black contour lines), an option that can be found under the Edges button i the Scene Panel (where you change render settings).

3D Game Engine Options

Blender has an inline 3D game engine. To get started, check out this link:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Tutorials/Game_Engine/BSoD/Basics_of_the_GE

Unity 3D Game Engine (Free version, pro version, exporters to iPhone and Wii for $$$):
http://unity3d.com/unity/

Iris Texture Resource

This is a link to the original Blender Nation article, make note of the portion where the owner of these photographs requests an email before use. Please do so, I've used Jon's iris photos before and he only cares to know about the project and to get a link to it's completion. Follow the link on the BN page to the textures, enjoy!

http://www.blendernation.com/free-iris-textures/