The Creative COW Blender Podcast is filled with tips, tricks, techniques, training, support and information that will enhance your ability to use this 3D Modeling Application. These video tutorial podcasts are pod-friendly and can be downloaded to your iTunes or any other device that can use iTunes. If you wish to interact with the podcast, please feel free to post a comment on one of the tutorials or at creativecow.net in the Blender forum.
 ---AVAILABLE EPISODES: (16)
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Film Fading to Black : Creative COW Magazine
by Creative COW
12/22/2011
Within the last year, ARRI, Panavision and Aaton have all ceased production of their film cameras to focus exclusively on the design and manufacture of digital cameras. Somewhere in the world, right now, someone is holding the last movie film camera ever
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The Blender 3D Survival Guide - Part 13
by Paolo Ciccone
(14:25) -- 5/21/2010
Episode 13 of the Blender Survival Guide is the conclusion of the three-part tutorial on how to use Blender in conjunction with the Lux Renderer. This video tutorial shows techniques that can take several days to master if attempted without guidance.
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The Blender 3D Survival Guide - Part 12
by Paolo Ciccone
(28:15) -- 5/21/2010
In this episode of the Blender Survival Guide Paolo continues the design of a simple scene that will be used to create volumetric lights using LuxRender. In this Video Tutorial you'll see how to add LuxRender to your Blender installation and more...
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The Blender 3D Survival Guide - Part 11
by Paolo Ciccone
(34:14) -- 5/10/2010
This tutorial takes the opportunity to study how to create Volumetric Lights in Blender and in the process it shows some very useful modeling techniques. You will learn how to carve holes into planes, how to create new edges and faces and more...
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The Blender 3D Survival Guide - Part 10
by Paolo Ciccone
(27:39) -- 4/26/2010
In this episode of the Blender Survival Guide we explore in detail how to edit existing keyframes for a simple animation. The video shows how to re-time portions of the animation, how to add hold keyframes, how to create loopable animations and more...
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The Blender 3D Survival Guide - Part 9
by Paolo Ciccone
(34:58) -- 4/12/2010
In this episode of the BSG Paolo shows you how to create a simple animation of flying photos in a 3D space. In the process we see how to setup the Blender environment to show the textures of a scene in real-time.
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The Blender 3D Survival Guide - Part 8
by Paolo Ciccone
(38:34) -- 3/29/2010
Episode 8 of the BSG continues the Book Promo project that Paolo Ciccone began in part 7. In this tutorial we see: How to do a multi-camera animation. How to adapt the translate tool to work in the right way. How to create realist mirror reflections.
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The Blender 3D Survival Guide - Part 7
by Paolo Ciccone
(42:39) -- 3/22/2010
Paolo Ciccone shows users how to create a promo for a product and in the process he models a book complete with textures for the cover, the back, the spine and the pages. This episode covers a lot of techniques that are useful in every day work.
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The Blender 3D Survival Guide - Part 6
by Paolo Ciccone
(21:45) -- 3/15/2010
Paolo Ciccone goes back to work on the Blender desktop and finds a few more useful techniques to make Blender's workflow better organized. Some of the topics covered: Add the tree view (Outliner) to your Blender workspace.
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The Blender 3D Survival Guide - Part 5
by Paolo Ciccone
(16:07) -- 3/9/2010
Paolo Ciccone shows the foundation of creating an animation with Blender. With the animation configured and ready he then shows how to render it to a clip that includes an alpha channel and how to import the animation in After Effects.
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The Blender 3D Survival Guide - Part 4
by Paolo Ciccone
(28:04) -- 3/1/2010
Paolo Ciccone expands on the subject started last week, and works on making the 3D text look better by learning how to use additional fonts, how to create new materials and how to take advantage of optimized Ambient Occlusion.
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The Blender 3D Survival Guide - Part 3
by Paolo Ciccone
(25:42) -- 2/22/2010
In this episode of the Survival Guide, host Paolo Ciccone shares how to create 3D text in Blender. We also discover how to use the 3D cursor, how to move, scale and rotate objects in the 3D space, how to position the camera to frame and more...
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The Blender 3D Survival Guide - Part 2
by Paolo Ciccone
(15:48) -- 2/15/2010
In part 2 of the Blender Survival Guide, host Paolo Ciccone shows users how to complete the customization of the Blender desktop and how to save our preferences so that they become the application's default.
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The Blender 3D Survival Guide - Part 1
by Paolo Ciccone
(23:25) -- 2/9/2010
The Blender Survival guide, hosted by Paolo Ciccone, is a multi-part tutorial that aims to teach you the necessary skills to get up to speed with Blender in the shortest time possible. All the essential stuff without the 'geeky' parts.
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