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6 August 2020

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ABS LEGO plastic brick material in Blender

22 October 2019

Blender is great for creating LEGO and other plastic brick models. This post will show how to create solid plastic material in the Blender Cycles and Eevee render engines. More…

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25 July 2019 | Updated 10 October 2019

In Blender, cameras are used to capture scenes and each scene can have one or multiple cameras. Because the camera is such an important component, this post gives some tips about using cameras in Blender. More…

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Plastic brick solid colour palette

27 February 2019 | Updated 10 October 2019

This is a growing list of the solid brick colours and the codes that I frequently use in Blender. It includes information for LEGO® bricks, Bricklink, Peeron and LDraw/LeoCAD. More…

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White clouds, blue sky colour scheme

26 February 2019

The White Clouds, Blue Sky palette has 5 colours which are processed cyan , vivid cerulean , white, true blue and denim. It is a nice, clean classic colour scheme for creating sky colours in Blender and Photoshop. More…

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Resampling image sizes for print: basic principles

18 February 2019

The quality of digital images is generally designed to look good on screens. However, when it comes to printing these images, there are some basic principles that one needs to understand to optimise their quality, file size and resolution. This post will discuss some of the basics of resampling digital image sizes to be used for print. More…

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