Taking Advantage of Blender 2.5

Taking Advantage of Blender 2.5
a very interesting article

Blender Frog

Here is a 100% Blender frog I ve done for testing Sculpting, texture painting (in Blender) and rendering.

A basic area light with a white plane with emit = 4 (for light reflection)

No specular, highlights are based on the white plane reflection

and the render settings:

Blender Shape Key Driver

Basic tutorial on How to create shape Keys Drivers Rig.

> Blender File

> Video

Blender Shape Key Mirror

Basic tutorial on how to create shape keys (morph targets) in blender and how You can create symmetrical shape easily

> Blender file

> Video

Blender Leg rig V2.

This version is much more correct for Blender. All the rig have to be component of the same "Armature", even controlers.

> blender file

> video

Blender Leg Rig

Leg and Foot rig based on my old 3ds max setup.
(max version : laurent.renaud.free.fr/tutoriel-rigs.html)

> blender file

> video tutorial

Fire and smoke - The torch

> blender file

> video

Fire and smoke - canon shot

> video

> Blender file

Fire and smoke test 2

> video

> download blender scene

Blender Fire and Smoke

Here is a test I 've done with blender 2.53 beta after looking at the Phoenix plugin gallery

> video

> download the Blender scene