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  How to Create and Animate a Glowing Pickup with Blender and Unreal Engine 4October 19, 2020
  Skill Level : Beginner Overview Welcome to the first in a series of posts on developing a 3D Sidescroller Racing Game. By following along with […]
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  How Did Blender’s Sculpting Technology Shape Up Over Time?September 8, 2020
  The Rise of Ngons With the advent of Blender changing it’s polygon engine to include Ngons, as opposed to only supporting triangles and quadrangles (post-Blender […]
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  How To Export Skeletal Animation From Blender To Unreal EngineAugust 19, 2020
  Now that you have Unreal Engine and Editor up and running, it’s time to start migrating your digital assets from Blender into the Editor. In […]
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  How to Build Unreal Engine 4 on Ubuntu with Blender AssetsAugust 12, 2020
  Although the source code for Unreal Engine has been made freely available in more recent times, creating and editing levels using the engine is nothing […]
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  Minotaur XIV : FK and Pose RigsAugust 3, 2020
  Forward Kinematics (FK) Rigging If you have been following the other posts on the Minotaur you might have noticed that this is not the first […]
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  Minotaur XIII : Texturing, Materials and Uv’sJuly 28, 2020
  Texturing The Minotaur consists of several textures and materials that are composited together, this render depicts the current painting status of the Minotaur’s color texture […]
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  Minotaur XII : Optimizing a Poly Count for RenderingJuly 20, 2020
  Optimization Testing Synopsis The model and armor take about 4.5min/fr to render. Using the rendering technique outlined in my previous post on skinning (“Minotaur XI”) […]
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  Minotaur XI : Proxy Model SetupJuly 13, 2020
  Skinning is the process of attaching geometry to an underlying skeleton or armature. We then use the armature to pose the model and simplify the […]
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  Minotaur X : Sculpting ArmourJuly 11, 2020
  This image is of the highest level multi-res sculpt which, at level 5, is about 1,4 million polys for this model. Since this is just […]
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  Minotaur IX : High Resolution SculptingJuly 9, 2020
  It’s worth noting at this point, that the technique used for sculpting this model is not typical as sculpting is performed non-destructively. In other words, […]
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  Minotaur VIII : Sculpting and System StabilityJuly 7, 2020
  Sculpting I generally lay out UV’s before sculpting commences… This may not be an ideal solution in some cases as vertex translation of the base […]
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  Minotaur VII : Laying out UV’sJuly 4, 2020
  UV Layout Students I’ve worked with have often asked me why the term UV is used? And the answer I give them is the same […]
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  Minotaur VI : Head Modelling and AdaptationJuly 3, 2020
  The Head There are many adjustments that were required regarding the original cow head to suit a more bull-looking head. Amongst which are flared nostrils, […]
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  Minotaur V : Form, Tone and PostureJuly 1, 2020
  General Form Improvements The arms and shoulder area have been in need of some major form adjustments, for example the shoulders are in a position […]
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  Minotaur IV : Modelling Fingers with Consistent Edge LoopsJune 30, 2020
  Hands The hands of the current Minotaur model inherently have five fingers as they originate from the makeHuman base male model. However my Minotaur only […]
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  Minotaur III : The Anatomy of a Minotaur’s MouthJune 29, 2020
  More Form Improvements In the following image I’ve started work on the mouth area. As this character will have a full set of grossly enlarged […]
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  Minotaur II : Merging Components without Booleans and Minimizing PolycountJune 27, 2020
  Merging Edges In this image I’ve merged the head to the main body and here’s a close up of the area that was merged… The […]
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  Minotaur : Planning and SetupJune 26, 2020
  I started a new project a few days ago. After having a look at my gallery, I decided that none of the images demonstrate my […]