Blender Tutorial – R2-D2

This tutorial series will show you how I created R2-D2 from Star Wars using Blender. The modelling process covers 18 tutorials, with a final tutorial showing how to create the textures and setup the scene using Cycles Render Engine.

The series of tutorials can be found on the YouTube channel in the R2-D2 playlist.

Blender Tutorial – Lord Of The Rings – One Ring

Here’s my Render of the “One Ring” from Lord Of The Rings.

This scene was created and rendered completely in Blender 3D, no photoshop or post work done. Cycles rendering and some basic texturing was used to achieve the finished effect. The first render doesn’t include any specialist lighting effects. The second has a volume scatter node added in the world settings.

Here’s the tutorial videos detailing how this scene was created. Click here to download the textures and sample files.

 

Blender – Lemon Slice

In this tutorial I cover how to create a slice of lemon that can be placed on to your cocktail glass, or any other scene where you might want a slice of lemon to be visible.

Below are some screen shots of the node editor window so that you can easily follow along with how these textures were created.

Here’s the node setup for the lemon skin :-

Here’s the node setup for the lemon slice texture :-

 

Star Wars X-Wing – Part 4

In this part of the tutorial series we will add some basic textures to our model using Blender’s built in texturing and colouring features. This will begin to give our model more realistic look and allow us to start blocking out the larger areas of colour so when we come to UV Unwrapping later and painting the model in a paint program we have a good idea what should be where.

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

Star Wars X-Wing – Part 3

In Part 3 we begin to add the smaller details to our Star Wars X-Wing aircraft. In Part 1 and 2 we modelled the main fuselage and wing sections.

Star Wars X-Wing – Part 1

Here’s Part 1 of my Star Wars X-Wing Tutorial. I’m sorry I haven’t done a complete tutorial on the Star Wars Imperial Star Destroyer, the project is just too large and detailed to really produce an effective tutorial for. However, by following along with this X-Wing tutorial you will create a really cool model, and it will tach you pretty much all the techniques I used to create the I.S.D. So here’s part 1 where we will cover setting up the reference imagery and beginning to model our basic fuselage shape.

Glowing Material Tutorial

In this basic tutorial we will use the cycles render engine in Blender to render a scene that contains a glowing effect material. The tutorial begins with some basic modelling of our floor, and then we add a metal grid tot he floor that will allow the light to shine through from underneath.

Download the project file here

Glow material rendered with Cycles render engine