3D Modelling & Animation
Getting Started Using the Item Bar
Constructing a model from importing pre-set items is a fun easy way to get started using Seamless3d.
Creating an Animated Character Step by Step Using Free Open Source Software
Starts with modelling the character from a box and ends with a fully animated jumping character. Teaches the essentials to create high quality nurbs animations. If you can find time to draw with a pencil or learn to play a musical instrument, you can find the time to make worthwhile animations without restrictions on your artistic freedom.
Creating an Animated Character Play-List
Additional tutorials that follow on from Creating an Animated Character.
Shows different options.
New tutorials still being added.
Making 3D Animated Movies with Free Open Source Seamless3d, FFmpeg & Povray
How to ray-trace an animation and create an MP4 movie file suitable for uploading to Youtube.
Modelling a Human Head Step by Step Using Free Open Source
Software Seamless3d 3
Modelling
Hands Step by Step
For this tutorial you need Seamless3d 3.002 or up.
Sparking Creativity in 3D Head Modelling
Thyme's experience and tips regarding head modelling.
Sketching
with nurbs lines
We can quickly sketch the essential defining lines of a
character using nurbs lines and use nurbs lines to guide a 3d
model. You need Seamless3d 3.004 or up.
The 9 Main Modes
The 9 main modes Seamless3d can be used in.
Written for Seamless3d 3.007
Creating Land for a Scene
Exporting, Importing and Duplicating Patches & Models
How patches can be duplicated, exported, and imported into models or as a separate model into the scene.
Written for Seamless3d 3.007
Nodes & the Scene Tree Window
An artists does not need to know anything about nodes and how to edit them using the scene tree window to make great works of art however the scene tree window can be very useful even with a minimalist understanding of nodes.
Written for Seamless3d 3.007
The Grid & Snapping Points
Snapping control points to the grid can greatly assist making man made objects such as buildings and machines.
Written for Seamless3d 3.007
Mirrored & Non Mirrored Patches
It is easy to make a model completely mirrored or completely non mirrored without paying much attention to how mirrored or non mirrored patches behave but when we want a model to contain both mirrored and non mirrored patches we need to take greater care.
Written for Seamless3d 3.007
Stitching Nurbs Patches
Learning how to stitch patches can unleash a lot of power.
Stitching lets the artist do things like transplant a head from
one body to another or transplant just one part of a face such
as the nose or mouth from one head to another. Stitching also
allows for more complex structures to be made which can be
useful for making something like a realistic ear.
Written for Seamless3d 3.007
Radical Patch
For advanced users.
You need Seamless3d 3.004 or up.
Smoothing a surface
using a smoothing patch.
As a result of inserting control lines where we want more
detail, we may end up with more control lines than we want in
other areas. This tutorial shows how to smooth such areas using a
smoothing patch.
You need Seamless3d 3.004 or up.
For advanced users.
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