In this quick test we use the new Open Subdiv integration in Blender 2.76 in order to speed up the viewport performance.
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AE: Duplicate composition with it’s precomps
In this quick video we demonstrate a simple way of duplicating compositions that contain nested precomps, without the need for any 3rd party tools. If your project is very complicated, you can first save a temporary copy and use the “reduce project” command to eliminate all other comps besides the ones you need to duplicate before importing it to your main project.
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Using the material index pass in Blender
In this one minute video we take a look at an example of using the material ID feature in Blender. The material index allows us to generate a mask of a certain material in order to do post processing to that particular material later on.
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Get rid of all Google Analytics referral spam
In this one minute video tutorial we show you an easy method for removing analytics spam that has worked very well for us!
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How to render in slow motion in Blender 2.7
In this one minute video tutorial we show you how you can use time remapping in order to create a slow motion version of your animation:
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Easy re-targeting of BHV files inside Blender 2.7
In this tutorial we show you the best way we have found to import and use BHV-mocap files with an existing rig.
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Blender copy dynamic paint settings
I couldn’t find this answer very easily by searching so here it is in case it helps someone else:
When you are using dynamic paint and you want to copy the settings of one brush into multiple objects, selected the objects, then select the object you want to copy from and finally go to object–>make links–>modifiers.
In other words dynamic paint is counted as a modifier even though the settings reside inside the physics tab.
Add custom keyboard shortcuts in Blender tutorial
In this quick video tutorial we add custom keyboard shortcuts to functions we use repeatedly.
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Easily manage your startup file in Blender
In this video we show you an easy strategy on how to manage your Blender startup file in such a fashion that you can rest assured you will always have it stored, even if you re-install you whole operating system.
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Rename multiple files in Windows without external tools
In this video we rename an image sequence exported from Blender using a built in Windows tool. We do the renaming in such a way that the trailing numbers stay the same while only the first part of the name is changed.
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