BSG 12 and 13.

by | May 10, 2010 | Blender, News, Video Tutorials | 18 comments

When I started the BSG I didn’t know if it would be even noticed. Well, you made it very clear since the beginning that there was a crowd of people “hungry” for accessible training about Blender. And so I kept delivering an episode every week for 10 weeks. Then I took a little break and now I have delivered two episodes in one day completing a standard set of 13 episodes of a TV show:

BSG 12: http://library.creativecow.net/ciccone_paolo/blender-survival-guide-12/1

BSG 13: http://library.creativecow.net/articles/ciccone_paolo/blender-survival-guide-13.php

I hope you will enjoy them. The Blender Survival Guide, or BSG, is now available on your desktop, on your iPad and on iTunes as a Podcast.
I’m quite happy with it and I think it will keep people busy for a while. Similarly to what happenes after the final episode of a TV season I’m gonna take a break and come back in a while with more and more content.

This “break” doesn’t influence the other Blender activites at the COW and I will be always available via our wonderful forum so continue to post your comments, requests and suggestions for new BSG topics.

So, as we say in Italian, “arrivederci”, which means “we’ll see each other again”, and keep blendering!

—
Paolo

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18 Comments

  1. Erik on May 11, 2010 at 10:52 am

    Paolo,

    what a great first season that was! 🙂
    here goes a huge THANK YOU SO MUCH for all the effort you are putting into this!! I enjoyed every episode, and the BSG finally helped me to grasp the concepts behind this incredible piece of software.

    So please enjoy your “break” and I am looking forward to Season 2 of the BSG!

    Keep it up + all the best, Erik

    • Pret-A-3D on May 11, 2010 at 11:53 am

      Thank you Erik, very much appreciated.

  2. Kotin Karwak on May 11, 2010 at 2:25 pm

    Prior to watching your vids, I assumed I would not be able to get my head around this 3D world, but I can confidently say, I did scare myself too much about AO, IOR and those little terms threw me off big time, Now, I can almost get myself off the ground and make eager steps in learning Blender 3D. and I believe with the coming of age of 2.5/6, this will even be much faster much thanks to the grounding this videos have offered.
    Once again, thank you for this and looking forward to the next installment of 2.6 vids.

    Now I am off to make a beating human heart, something I have always wanted to do…

  3. Paul Rainville on May 14, 2010 at 6:07 am

    Hi Paolo,

    This has been a great time being a student, learning from a teacher! I greatly appreciated the time and effort!

    Gratzi!
    Paul

  4. Tim on May 14, 2010 at 8:59 am

    Thanks for all the great tutorials – They’re incredible, and very helpful. I’m only on lesson 5 or so, but thanks for keeping them coming!

    • Pret-A-3D on May 14, 2010 at 10:05 am

      You’re very welcome Tim, glad that they are helpful.

  5. Mark on May 17, 2010 at 12:18 pm

    An absolutely brilliant first series…
    And the first set of video tutorials I’ve actually completed.
    Many thanks Paolo.

  6. Joe on May 25, 2010 at 8:30 am

    Hey this looks really good! I am looking forward to checking all of them out. I actually want to use Blender for some animation sequences for a short film I am planning to make.

    By the way, I entered the storyboards for the film into a competition on YouTube. If I win, I get some resources to make my film.

    However, in order to win, people need to click the Thumbs Up at the bottom of the video. The more people that click the Thumbs Up button, the more chance I have to win!

    Here is the link:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT1yOPu5F9A

    Thanks! I hope you like the concept. Let me know what you think.

  7. Digital Custard on May 29, 2010 at 1:07 am

    Hey Paolo,

    Well I just finished the series, great stuff. I immediately went to download Luxrender as one of the first things I tried was making a set of gemstones and having some real light interaction would be fantastic, but from what I can tell, there’s no 2.5 version yet, so I’m out of luck there. Guess I’ll just have to make do with the internal renderer for now.

    Russell.

    • Pret-A-3D on May 29, 2010 at 12:23 pm

      Russel, you might want to reconsider the 2.5 deal. Blender 2.6, the release version of the 2.5 development, will not be out for a few months. Nobody knows exactly, not event the developers, but it can be easily 6 months or more. The Api for all scripts has changed. No scripts that work under 2.49 work unchanged on 2.6 and I expect about one year for the migration to be complete. It’s a long time without a fully working Blender. Also, using alpha code for any kind of work is very risky. My suggestion is to use Blender 2.5/2.6 to learn about the new style of UI but use 2.49 until the program is released and fully tested.
      What you can achieve with Blender 2.49 and Lux today is simply amazing.

  8. Digital Custard on May 29, 2010 at 3:16 pm

    @Pret-A-3D
    Yeah you’re probably right. I was thinking the same thing trying to do some other tutorials last night that juts didn’t seem to have the right features available in 2.5. The thought of learning 2 interfaces is a bit *bleh* though. I’ll give it a go and see how it turns out.

    Thanks for the advice.

  9. Pret-A-3D on May 29, 2010 at 5:14 pm

    I know what you mean but the 2.5/2.6 UI is not that different from what 2.49 has. AKEY selects/deselects. BKEY is the box selection, etc. The fundamentals remain the same so what you learn on 2.49 translates for the most part to 2.6.

  10. Ahmad on July 19, 2010 at 1:53 pm

    Dear Paolo

    Thanks alot for your tutorials. May you please have a Tutorial about how to import 2D logo or scan in to Blender for the reason to extrude it. May you please tell me where I can find more tutorials about Blender? DVD Video or same.Thanks

  11. Carolyn on August 16, 2010 at 3:46 am

    Hi Paolo,

    I just wanted to add my thanks for such a great series of tutorials. I had Blender downloaded for six months, tried to use it once and felt too overwhelmed to open it again. Then I got pointed at your series, via Creative Cow, and it completely changed my mind. Thank you so much for all your work in making it accessible and fun!

  12. Pret-A-3D on August 16, 2010 at 7:08 am

    Hey Carolyn.

    Glad that the BSG worked for you, thanks for the feedback.

  13. Gleny Amado on August 18, 2010 at 7:30 am

    Hi, Paolo.
    Great Job, The BSG is it what I was looking for the past 8 months.
    For beginners (me 😀 ) Blender is a little hard to learn, but you give us, a practical, fun and faster way to learn Blender.

    I learned lots of things just in the firsts episodes.
    I’m looking forward finish the BSG, and see all the new things that I will learn.

    Thanks you for your work and time in the BSG.

    Regards from Honduras.

    G. Amado.

  14. Pret-A-3D on August 18, 2010 at 8:07 am

    @Gleny Amado
    Hey Gleny, you’re very welcome. Thank you for stopping by 🙂

  15. Justine-Paula on April 17, 2011 at 12:37 pm

    Hi..
    I need help to figure out how to install Luxrender onto my Mac Macbookpro laptop running Snow Leopard, I am not a computer fundi and I am so confused. I have tried loading/installing python and all versions of luxrender and still I cannot see it.

    I am using 249.2 version of Blender, where have I gone wrong, could you possibly make a short video tutorial on ho to install Lux render for those of use not computer savvy?
    Thanks, I have loved all the video tutorials and I am frustrated I cannot get luxrender to work..

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