You have some absolutely amazing work here! I tried Blender many years ago and got nowhere fast. Maybe it's time I should try again?

Have lost track on how many times I tried the coffee cup - at least I have no holes now. I'm leaving the cup for now and will try something else. Here it is - not perfect but it was a great lesson on where things are located (interface) and what they do.

Dalia - well done; that is an excellent attempt.

Looks like I shall have to rev up Blender too; its been on my system for 15 months and I only tried it out once.

Thank you PhotoMaster.

Long time ago I did some of Fenceposts Rotating Sigs.

Ocean Time.

Hey Lurifax, I'm guessing your avatar was made in blender?

Yes PhotoMaster. My avatar ar made in Blender.

Fun for the road.

Good effects, Lurifax. How did you get the effect of yellow plastic?

Carlos, So good to see you in the forum.
Nice results in this Blender Art programme. I like seeing your progress.

Hello Carlos.

I dont know which project with yellow plastic material you talking abouth.

You vill have hard time If you try to get perfect plastic effect from your own laborations on your nodesetting at Node Editor. I always have my cool locking materials from Blendswap.





Lurifax

How to make a engine in Blender cycle.

This first image show you there is possible to work with 2 Blender projects at the same time.



1.
Add cylinder and add 4 Loop Cuts by pressing Ctrl+R



2.
Use Tool Array



3.

Extrude and make bevel.


4.
Use Tool Mirror to make left side of the engine.



5.

Use Tool Bridge inside W to fill up the gap.



6.

Use Tool Edge Split.



7.

To let the Camera rotate around the object (Engine) for animation.

Add a Circle
Select 2 Lamp+ Camera before you select the Circle (You need to hold the Shift button down when you select more than one item)

Press Ctrl+P + Follow Path.





Lurifax.

Thanks for the answer, Lurifax.

Hi, Issabella. I'm preparing a surprise for you. Wait for the news. Perhaps the video takes a few days to become available. I suppose I don't know how to embed videos in gimp chat.
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You've got some really cool Blender works in this thread Lurifax73 . Some nice little tips and tricks as well - I didn't realise Blender had a fully modelled bolt mesh that you could just add! Thanks for sharing mate!

Thank you Artloader.

Yes you have over 100 AddOns for Blender on this AddOn List. But many of them you need to pay. http://blenderaddonlist.blogspot.se

Here is one example how i downloaded and installed AddOn Tools and object for Window.

Out at sea on a fishing boat bobbing on the waves.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/tZabY0-i9Mc?rel=0

There is 5 possible ways to animate your projects in Blender.

A.
Armature
Lattice
Empty

B-C

You have inside Armature few options, depending on your need.

D
The easiest metode to animate your projects ar Shape Keys

E.

You animate Empty and Lattice together with Constraints.

We going to animate my head "Cartoon Mr: Blender"

I have 2 different animation system for Mr:Blender
1.
Empty+Constraints for the eyes
2.
Shape Keys





I hide the toung inside M to get less stuff inside the mouth.


Select upper Jaw and move it up.



If you move the handle you open and close the mouth.



Value 1000 mouth wide open.



Select Lower Jaw and move it down.



The eyes have Empty+Constraints as animate the eyes.



Here is 3 rendered images in different animated poses.







Lurifax

Here are some Cartoons

Out for a trip on the ocean waves.

Project made on Blender Cycle and Modifier Ocean

Resolution:

1920x1080 100 procent
AVI H.264
Bitrate 10000
Sample 300
Preview 32
Clamp Inderect 1.0
Frames 1- 250

Lamps.

One World- Background- Environment HDR- Texture

One Wallpaper-Sky- Emission

One Lamp Sun.


Material Ocean. Nodes: Glass 0.15 + Fresnel 200 + Foam 0.2


Connect and stick the boat on to the oceansurface with Modifier + Shrinkwrap and Constraints + Shrinkwrap + Copy Location + Copy Rotation

Renderingtime. 24 hours.




One other type of lamp.

You can use image with sky as lamp if you use (Emission) ( A )

Add a plane ( C )
Add your sky texture on the plane ( B )
Use Emission ( A )




Lurifax