Enabling defocus in Cycles

      In this quick tip I just want to let you know how to enable defocous in the new Cg renderer Cycles. I know that some of you may already know, but for those who don't, this is how.

Broken Heart

     Hello once again. While thinking of topics for tutorials I came up with this result entitled "Broken Heart". It was supposed to look a bit more animated and comical-ish. Anyways let me know what you think of it.

#1 Tip for Making your 3d scenes look realistic

      So I've noticed that sometimes, even if you do everything seemingly right, your Cg render still looks extremely fake. This is probably do to the fact that your using the built in render engine. The reason why Blender's internal render engine and other 3d renderers look fake is the fact that they don't have bounce lighting.

My Facebook page

Hey guys just want to let you know that my facebook page is up. check it out and like it.

Fluid Particles with Meta Balls

      Many of you loyal blender enthusiast may have heard about fluid particles. Fluid particles are a new way to use particles in Blender. If you don't know what fluid particles are then here is a great introduction to fluid particles.

     I want to let you guys know that instead of rendering spheres we can use meta balls with fluid particles. First off we need to know what a meta ball is. In the video below I show a quick demonstration of how Meta Balls work.

Silver Coin: Part 4

Silver Coin: Part 3

Silver Coin Tutorial

Difficulty: Intermediate

Author: Josh G

This Tutorial Covers:
Modelling the coin and case
uv unrapping the coin and case
Normal Maps
Materials in Cycles
Lighting in Cycles
Rendering in Cyles.