Thursday, February 17, 2011

GIMP Tutorial: Just in time for Valentines


Let's pretend it is. ^_^

Here's the second tutorial I wrote with youthedesigner.com, in time for the love season.

If you haven't had the chance to check out the previous GIMP tutorial we did, please head over to http://www.youthedesigner.com/2011/02/07/a-design-tutorial-on-creating-shiny-buttons-with-gimp/

And here's a link to the GIMP Valentine Tutorial: http://www.youthedesigner.com/2011/02/15/gimp-tutorial-just-in-time-for-valentines-2/

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Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Blender's Particle Textures Reincarnated

Yes, yes, yes! You read it from the title. But there's more to it than just that. There have been many many many improvements in Blender's particle system, this we owe a lot to Janne Karhu (aka Jahka) and all to the Blender developers (most of which does voluntarily) who has been dedicating their time and effort to improving Blender as we see it now.

I have long been waiting for this feature to be reimplemented to 2.5. And, yes, it's now a dream come true.

Without further ado, you can check the video below for a proof of concept: