Once again I joined forces with the amazing Chris Kuhn to create this beast. He modeled it ridiculously fast, and then handled it over to me for all the texturing and rendering stuffs.

Some more renders:

On a dark and stormy night after repeatedly failing to record a tutorial successfully, I thought it might be fun to take the Sintel model off the DVD and port the materials for Cycles. And so it was 

That’s all I did, so understand that this model and all it’s textures (see below) are licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 3.0 originally created by the Durian team working at the Blender Fountation for the Sintel Open Movie project.

The rig is a little wonky (missing most of it’s controls) since it was created a while ago and the Blender API has changed a lot since then. I do plan to fix it up with the current Rigify, but not any time soon, so if you’d like to do that feel free.

Blender 2.65 doesn’t have hair rendering support, so to get the hair to render in Cycles you’ll need a recent build from either graphicall or the build bot, or simply 2.66 or later (once it comes out).

Now the textures for this model are a total of 260MB or so. Thus it’s not included in this download and you need to download it separately from one of the links at the bottom.
The textures are in a zip file, so to get it to work, simply make a folder anywhere you like, put the sintel_cycles.blend file in this folder and then create a folder in there called “textures” and unzip the textures.zip into that folder. So in your folder you should have the blend file and another folder called “textures” with all the images in there.
It should look something like this:
C:\anyfolder\sintel_cycles.blend
C:\anyfolder\textures\someimages.jpg

Texture downloads:
Mirror 1
Mirror 2
Dropbox doesn’t like it when one account gets a huge amount of traffic, so please if you’ve got 260mb spare on your account, or have a server you could host it on, please let me know and I’ll add it to the list.

A sort of summary:

• Add your scene into the Video Sequence Editor (VSE)
• Add your audio into the VSE
• Line them up at frame 1
• Choose a suitable video codec (Recommended: H.264)
• Choose a suitable audio codec (Recommended: MP3)
• Render animation! (Hotkey: Ctrl+F12)

Well hello there! Forgot about me did you?

I realized the other day that a lot of people get confused about the whole texture painting thing, so I thought I’d surprise you all and make another tutorial :)

So in this video, I’ll show you the quickest way to start painting your textures in both Blender Internal and Cycles renderers (yes, the methods are slightly different) directly onto your model in the 3D view.

Since Chris gave away this awesome model, I think it’s only fair if I give away my textured version :)

Licence: CC-BY

All modeling and rigging credit goes to Chris – all I did was texture and render it.

If you want to support the awesome dude that modeled this awesome model, buy his even more awesome textured version, or any of his other awesome stuff! (most of which are free, the rest are super cheap)

Here I’ll show you how to set up a simple shader in cycles to get some subsurface scattering and hence realistic skin. It’s a lot simpler than you think!
Head model and textures by Lee Perry-Smith under CC-BY licence here:http://www.ir-ltd.net/infinite-3d-head-scan-released

Download the .blend

*Protip – If you’re getting too much scattering, try adding a very thin (in this case, 0.002 is good) solidify modifier.

Download the Blend

Agus’s Blend

Have a look and let me know what yah think.

Thanks

• modeling cans
• texturing cans
• simple composition

By Tomas Palombo