Courne Supremacy

Nestled on a cliffside, a small town zig-zagged up the rock face and ended with a church on the plateau. In the noonday sun, the church steeple had been the first thing Alicia had seen glimmering in the horizon as she had flown over the Senbu Desert two days ago. As her plane soared over [...]

When I originally created the Courne Supremacy I thought that it would be all about writing. I would post short stories and my friends could come and read them. It hasn’t turned out that way. More or less, Courne Supremacy is a blog about all the projects I’m currently working on. I like a lot [...]

For those of you into doing some hand drawn animation check out this freeware application. I ran across it while browsing the Peach website. I downloaded it and played with it a little bit. I’m not that great at using my tablet for drawing. I much prefer to use pencils, but this looks like a [...]

The new Jakha particles are a lot better. This is just playing with the particles for maybe 2-3 hours:

Here’s how it works: You create an initial batch of particles (maybe 25 to 100 hair particles). You then “bake” the particles out — that is they become editable. From there you’re able to enter a particle [...]

I take it back… (maybe)
But, if you want to play with hair in blender, get this build:
http://www.graphicall.org/builds/builds/showbuild.php?action=show&id=560 
That is the beautiful thing about open source. GraphicAll.org is a site that builds many different versions of Blender — usually the builders also test them and viola, before there is a new official Blender release, you can be [...]