Cg Meeting Midge Sinnaeve

A few months ago I wrote about all the upcoming events and now it\'s time to look back and reflect.Starting with DAC-FRA, I had a great time attending and meeting everyone. It was a really fun conference in terms of just hanging out and talking about everyone\'s art. Adding on to that, the titles I designed for them were received really well. (More on that in just a second.)I was happy with how my talk went, which was recorded and has since been.Fast forward almost two months and I\'m in front of an audience at the Blender Conference for another talk. This time the focus is just on DAZE as I accomplished what I set out to do by creating 60 unique VJ loops for the event. Even with a few presentation issues I think the talk went well and my point came across.

We have a special extra info session about #UnrealStudio on top of our VR / AR talk by #cgif. Midge Sinnaeve @themantissa 21 Sep 2017. Feb 18, 2019  Follow Midge Sinnaeve through his galaxy-brain workflow to see how he taps into the extraordinary power and flexibility of modifiers and Blender 2.8. It\'s a kind of 3D creativity that will truly.

In preparation of an event me and my brothers are organizing, I\'ve been creating a bunch of. I aim to have about 60 of them ready by November, and I\'ve finished 20 already.

If you follow my Instagram feed you\'ve probably seen them pass by.Now that I\'ve hit 20 though, I\'d like to share my progress so far. All of them will be available from the, where you can find previews of each individual loop, as well as download them all at 2K resolution. Once again, all of this stuff is licensed CC0 (Public Domain), so you\'re free to use the loops any way you want.Once I\'ve finished all of the 60 loops, I intend to clean up the Blender files and make all of those available as well.Check out the teaser for our event, motion design by, music was done by me. But that\'s not all! I\'ve also been asked to speak at the. So it\'s time for a road trip down to Frankfurt for what\'s shaping up to be a fun conference. It\'s the first time this is being organized and while it\'s more focused for game artists, students and professionals, I\'m super excited to be a part of it and hope inspire them with some of my crazy art.:)It\'s the first time I\'ve been asked to fill a full speaking slot at a conference and I\'m very much looking forward to creating a fun presentation with a lot of cool stuff for everyone.

Better start practicing!Then, conference-wise, I\'ll also be speaking at and attending the this year. The last few years I was only able to go for one day, but this time I\'ll be around for the full conference.As with every year, it promises to be a great time hanging out with other artists and making poor life choices. Hit me up if you\'re going too, so we can have a chat and a drink! Another big update this time, as it\'s been a busy few months.First off, check out this I created!It\'s licensed under the public domain, so you can use it however you want.

All of the texture sets are 8K resolution and include displacement maps, flow masks, height masks, normal maps and more. All of them were created using World Machine and the source files are also available.

That way you can generate endless variations yourself if you have World Machine!There\'s also fairly high resolution meshes included in OBJ format, as well as nine example blender files to take a look at. There\'s also an included PDF overview and a quick start video to get you rolling quickly.So why did I license this CC0? Well, to be honest, I\'d rather people use these and be happy with some free stuff, than try and monetize all of this. I created all of them in my free time exploring World Machine and just wanted to share it without limitations. Of course, if you end up using them and want to send me a link to the result, I\'ll be more than happy to check it out!;)You can download it in a variety of ways, as the full pack with all the content is about 5GB. I understand that not everyone can easily transfer this amount of data, so here\'s all you options:. Download the full pack with everything included.

(5GB). Download just the textures and meshes. (3GB). Browse for individual files. A few weeks ago, I ended up creating a few UI designs (like the one shown) which are available as a. After creating one for the series, I caught the UI / Hologram bug a little and had some fun. So be sure to check those out as well!There\'s 5 available right now, and I might add more in the future if / when I end up creating them.Speaking of the Motion Graphics training, it was an absolute pleasure working with everyone over at the Blender Institute, and I want to thank them again for giving me the chance.

I\'m very pleased with the end result and I hope I can help some people along with the variety of content included.It was definitely an interesting experience doing many short videos, rather than just one long YouTube tutorial and I learned a lot from it too. All the feedback I\'ve received is very welcome as well and for that I thank everyone who commented.:)Over on YouTube, the has slowly continued as well and we\'re already up to episode 5! More have been added too and I should be able to get back to recording more of them soon.

The 2017 36 Days of Type are over, so I\'m releasing all the files for! You can find them over on the.Being the second time I took part, this year has been interesting to compare with last year\'s series. I was even, which was rad.:)Where, in 2016, they marked my transition over to Blender full time from commercial software, this year it was OpenCL\'s time to shine.

In the month and a half that took to create them, significant changes were made to the Cycles OpenCL implementation. Just a quick look at the Blender Release Notes for 2.79 (at the time of writing) shows the amount of stuff going on. The amount of work that the compute device does at once is now determined automatically to fill available memory, independent of tile size. This reduces render times by up to 50% in certain cases, without the need to adjust the tile size for every scene or system configuration. Tiles can now be seen updating while rendering.

Fixed shading artifacts sometimes seen especially at low samples. Fixes for most common cases of hanging and crashing.

Added support of SSS and Volume rendering. Optimized transparent shadows As always, these features aren\'t guaranteed, but usually they\'re a good indication of what\'s to come. Throughout the project, I was excited to work on a number of posts with the seeing Blender improve every day. Things like this keep me investing time and energy in improving my FOSS pipeline.I also had the chance to sit down with my brother for a collab on the 0 and 1, which was a lot of fun.

#binarybrosAs with last year, I would recommend taking part next year, even if you only do one. It\'s great seeing so many takes on the same subject, day after day. And a big thanks to everyone for the enthusiasm! So it\'s that time of year again!:) The are starting on the 21st of February and I fully intend to take apart again this year. Keep an eye out on my Instagram page once it gets started.This year though, I wanted to set myself more of a challenge. As with last year, once I\'m done the files will be made open to everyone after I clean them up a bit.The big difference is that I\'ll be limiting myself somewhat by only using the OpenCL implementation of Cycles.

This means I\'ll be missing some of the usual tricks and workflows I use.So why do this? In the past, I\'ve noticed that by limiting myself I tend to get more creative in the way I solve problems, whether that\'s in 3D or real life. By constraining what I can and can\'t use I\'ll have to re-think some of the techniques I use a lot (and sometimes overuse).Add to that the fact that I\'m a hardware nerd and want to see what a pair of AMD RX480\'s can do when it comes to Cycles. All of the HDR\'s and / or textures will be grabbed from the so I can share all of the files in their original state.

If you\'re a Blender Cloud subscriber and haven\'t tried, I highly recommend having a look at it! Blender Motion Graphics?!I recently visited the Blender Institute to discuss and finalize a course that I\'ll be creating in the next 6 weeks for the that\'s all about. You guessed it, motion graphics in Blender.The course will focus on a small project that I\'ll break down from start to finish, talking not only about the techniques used, but also the general workflow behind it. I find this approach to a course more interesting as it gives more insight on how to actually start a project and follow through with it until the end.This will all be made available exclusively on the once it\'s finished and is currently planned for release at the end of March.

A few months ago I wrote about all the upcoming events and now it\'s time to look back and reflect.Starting with DAC-FRA, I had a great time attending and meeting everyone. It was a really fun conference in terms of just hanging out and talking about everyone\'s art. Adding on to that, the titles I designed for them were received really well. (More on that in just a second.)I was happy with how my talk went, which was recorded and has since been.Fast forward almost two months and I\'m in front of an audience at the Blender Conference for another talk. This time the focus is just on DAZE as I accomplished what I set out to do by creating 60 unique VJ loops for the event. Even with a few presentation issues I think the talk went well and my point came across.

We have a special extra info session about #UnrealStudio on top of our VR / AR talk by #cgif. Midge Sinnaeve @themantissa 21 Sep 2017. Feb 18, 2019  Follow Midge Sinnaeve through his galaxy-brain workflow to see how he taps into the extraordinary power and flexibility of modifiers and Blender 2.8. It\'s a kind of 3D creativity that will truly.

In preparation of an event me and my brothers are organizing, I\'ve been creating a bunch of. I aim to have about 60 of them ready by November, and I\'ve finished 20 already.

If you follow my Instagram feed you\'ve probably seen them pass by.Now that I\'ve hit 20 though, I\'d like to share my progress so far. All of them will be available from the, where you can find previews of each individual loop, as well as download them all at 2K resolution. Once again, all of this stuff is licensed CC0 (Public Domain), so you\'re free to use the loops any way you want.Once I\'ve finished all of the 60 loops, I intend to clean up the Blender files and make all of those available as well.Check out the teaser for our event, motion design by, music was done by me. But that\'s not all! I\'ve also been asked to speak at the. So it\'s time for a road trip down to Frankfurt for what\'s shaping up to be a fun conference. It\'s the first time this is being organized and while it\'s more focused for game artists, students and professionals, I\'m super excited to be a part of it and hope inspire them with some of my crazy art.:)It\'s the first time I\'ve been asked to fill a full speaking slot at a conference and I\'m very much looking forward to creating a fun presentation with a lot of cool stuff for everyone.

Better start practicing!Then, conference-wise, I\'ll also be speaking at and attending the this year. The last few years I was only able to go for one day, but this time I\'ll be around for the full conference.As with every year, it promises to be a great time hanging out with other artists and making poor life choices. Hit me up if you\'re going too, so we can have a chat and a drink! Another big update this time, as it\'s been a busy few months.First off, check out this I created!It\'s licensed under the public domain, so you can use it however you want.

All of the texture sets are 8K resolution and include displacement maps, flow masks, height masks, normal maps and more. All of them were created using World Machine and the source files are also available.

That way you can generate endless variations yourself if you have World Machine!There\'s also fairly high resolution meshes included in OBJ format, as well as nine example blender files to take a look at. There\'s also an included PDF overview and a quick start video to get you rolling quickly.So why did I license this CC0? Well, to be honest, I\'d rather people use these and be happy with some free stuff, than try and monetize all of this. I created all of them in my free time exploring World Machine and just wanted to share it without limitations. Of course, if you end up using them and want to send me a link to the result, I\'ll be more than happy to check it out!;)You can download it in a variety of ways, as the full pack with all the content is about 5GB. I understand that not everyone can easily transfer this amount of data, so here\'s all you options:. Download the full pack with everything included.

(5GB). Download just the textures and meshes. (3GB). Browse for individual files. A few weeks ago, I ended up creating a few UI designs (like the one shown) which are available as a. After creating one for the series, I caught the UI / Hologram bug a little and had some fun. So be sure to check those out as well!There\'s 5 available right now, and I might add more in the future if / when I end up creating them.Speaking of the Motion Graphics training, it was an absolute pleasure working with everyone over at the Blender Institute, and I want to thank them again for giving me the chance.

I\'m very pleased with the end result and I hope I can help some people along with the variety of content included.It was definitely an interesting experience doing many short videos, rather than just one long YouTube tutorial and I learned a lot from it too. All the feedback I\'ve received is very welcome as well and for that I thank everyone who commented.:)Over on YouTube, the has slowly continued as well and we\'re already up to episode 5! More have been added too and I should be able to get back to recording more of them soon.

The 2017 36 Days of Type are over, so I\'m releasing all the files for! You can find them over on the.Being the second time I took part, this year has been interesting to compare with last year\'s series. I was even, which was rad.:)Where, in 2016, they marked my transition over to Blender full time from commercial software, this year it was OpenCL\'s time to shine.

In the month and a half that took to create them, significant changes were made to the Cycles OpenCL implementation. Just a quick look at the Blender Release Notes for 2.79 (at the time of writing) shows the amount of stuff going on. The amount of work that the compute device does at once is now determined automatically to fill available memory, independent of tile size. This reduces render times by up to 50% in certain cases, without the need to adjust the tile size for every scene or system configuration. Tiles can now be seen updating while rendering.

Fixed shading artifacts sometimes seen especially at low samples. Fixes for most common cases of hanging and crashing.

Added support of SSS and Volume rendering. Optimized transparent shadows As always, these features aren\'t guaranteed, but usually they\'re a good indication of what\'s to come. Throughout the project, I was excited to work on a number of posts with the seeing Blender improve every day. Things like this keep me investing time and energy in improving my FOSS pipeline.I also had the chance to sit down with my brother for a collab on the 0 and 1, which was a lot of fun.

#binarybrosAs with last year, I would recommend taking part next year, even if you only do one. It\'s great seeing so many takes on the same subject, day after day. And a big thanks to everyone for the enthusiasm! So it\'s that time of year again!:) The are starting on the 21st of February and I fully intend to take apart again this year. Keep an eye out on my Instagram page once it gets started.This year though, I wanted to set myself more of a challenge. As with last year, once I\'m done the files will be made open to everyone after I clean them up a bit.The big difference is that I\'ll be limiting myself somewhat by only using the OpenCL implementation of Cycles.

This means I\'ll be missing some of the usual tricks and workflows I use.So why do this? In the past, I\'ve noticed that by limiting myself I tend to get more creative in the way I solve problems, whether that\'s in 3D or real life. By constraining what I can and can\'t use I\'ll have to re-think some of the techniques I use a lot (and sometimes overuse).Add to that the fact that I\'m a hardware nerd and want to see what a pair of AMD RX480\'s can do when it comes to Cycles. All of the HDR\'s and / or textures will be grabbed from the so I can share all of the files in their original state.

If you\'re a Blender Cloud subscriber and haven\'t tried, I highly recommend having a look at it! Blender Motion Graphics?!I recently visited the Blender Institute to discuss and finalize a course that I\'ll be creating in the next 6 weeks for the that\'s all about. You guessed it, motion graphics in Blender.The course will focus on a small project that I\'ll break down from start to finish, talking not only about the techniques used, but also the general workflow behind it. I find this approach to a course more interesting as it gives more insight on how to actually start a project and follow through with it until the end.This will all be made available exclusively on the once it\'s finished and is currently planned for release at the end of March.