well the past couple of weeks have been quite hectic, issues with youtube and content licences left me starting to feel less than motivated, trying to post simple videos of my sculpting chat videos has been more trouble than it was worth, which is one of the reasons that there have been no recent updates to that particular series, but as it was a crap series any way who cares right! but... It has motivated me to work on other stuff, mainly the Brand new website! it is cool, and most definatly NOT bright Yellow! (what was i thinking...) Tutorials are set out in there own little categories, on there own page with, (Just be cause I'm a really nice sort of guy) a FULL text write up WITH pictures, especially for those of you with an aversion to watching videos. I know, right, Awesome! :D
OK so there are only two tutorials up right this moment but i have to start somewhere! Anyway, my main focus will be blender for VFX, so lots of compositing tutorials (something that is sadly lacking in the Blender community) but that doesn't mean there will be no regular modelling and rigging and texturing stuff, there most certainly will, as these things are an important part of VFX. of course i will utilize a whole bunch of stuff from blendswap and the like, but I'll be showing how to do it yourself too. oh, and I'll be using daily motion to host the main content videos rather than you tube, because this is a business and i cant afford for youtube to dick around checking out licences and stuff, you guys need these videos available straight away! (not that i'm abandoning youtube, there will still be regular content there too!)
so what about the financial side of stuff? well I would like to borrow the CG cookie model of business and have a subscription service, but frankly i have no real idea how i would implement that and make it viable so i wont! there will be a store flogging the usual mugs and Tshirts soon, I'll also be releasing Asset packs eventually, which will be fun to make, so basically adverts, Tat and interesting cool stuff you can use in your personal projects!
but, that aside what else is going on?
I'm glad you asked, FEATURED VIDEOS!
yes thats right, i want your work, films you've made using blender, whether its a short clip a couple of seconds long or an epic 4 hour hollywood blockbuster, that you have made ( that's kind of the important bit, no posting lord of the rings or something, unless of course your Peter Jackson, then I guess its ok).
share them on my facebook page or google plus and I'll choose one each week to take the coveted spot directly on the homepage of our site (well, it will be coveted one day...)
so for now thats it, i'll do another video chat thing shortly, i'm thinking of using the sculpting videos as a kind of way of chatting with you guys, a bit like Blender Guru's podcasts, but with the added exitement of watching me fail badly at sculpting... so all good there then!
Andrew Price has just announced another competition so , i should try my hand at that, no prizes this time well something from the blender shop, so worth trying out for that at least :)
also Blender Version 2.70 is on the horizon, the developers have been busy tweaking and fixing and generally making blender more awesome, and the new UI team have been busy doing stuff too, the new Tab system on the tool bar is pretty good, though still a work in progress and needs to be implemented across all the other workspaces, and just generally made sensible!
Cycles gas volumetric support which is awesome for cycles users, and something that has been long awaited, still not something i can use to its full advantage yet, as i'm still on an AMD card, which sucks, actually i had the opportunity to purchase a Nvidea GTX 680 recently, but decided in the end that getting webhosting was more important. you see the sacrifices i make for you guys :D
ok well thats about it, i can't really think of much else right now os i'll end this drivel around here and go make some coffee ( because thats a good idea at 2am just before bed...) lol
