http://www.erain.com/blog/ THE BLUE STREAK: News, Resources, Commentary & Mayhem en-us Copyright 2005 Fri, 11 Feb 2005 14:53:46 +0000 Fri, 11 Feb 2005 15:04:49 +0000 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.0D http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Swiftdev recently relaunched their Swift 3D resource site and it's better than ever! If you're a Swift 3D User, this is a resource you really need to check out. Swiftdev - The largest Swift 3D Resource on the PLANET www.swiftdev.com... http://www.erain.com/blog/archives/2005/02/swiftdev_relaun_1.html http://www.erain.com/blog/archives/2005/02/swiftdev_relaun_1.html Fri, 11 Feb 2005 14:53:46 +0000 Congrats to our Swift 3D Addict Neil McGarry, a.k.a. ArtzFX. Neil McGarry of http://www.artzfx.com/ is a great contributor to the Swift 3D society (Check out his website for Swift 3D video training and additional creations). As you can see from... http://www.erain.com/blog/archives/2005/01/weekly_swift_3d_12.html http://www.erain.com/blog/archives/2005/01/weekly_swift_3d_12.html Mon, 24 Jan 2005 18:36:29 +0000 Congrats to our Swift 3D Addict Raymond Moonen, a.k.a. Rainman. Rainman has created an amazing model of Spiderman's head/mask. If there is anyone that wants to push the limits and raise the bar of Swift 3D's Advanced Modeler, it would... http://www.erain.com/blog/archives/2005/01/weekly_swift_3d_11.html http://www.erain.com/blog/archives/2005/01/weekly_swift_3d_11.html Tue, 18 Jan 2005 17:25:49 +0000 Congrats to our Swift 3D Addict Aaron Barnes. Aaron has created an inspiring composition of an alien nuclear attack using Swift 3D and Photoshop combined. The robot was pieced together using Swift 3D and then placed on a plane which... http://www.erain.com/blog/archives/2005/01/weekly_swift_3d_10.html http://www.erain.com/blog/archives/2005/01/weekly_swift_3d_10.html Mon, 10 Jan 2005 20:43:19 +0000 Graeme Bull of Solid-Thinking.com and 3EnhanceDesigners.com has graciously converted our exsisting Swift 3D v4 Featured Tutorial Series to the Japanese language. Click the image to view the Japanese version Head Modeling Tutorial or click the links below. View the tutorials:... http://www.erain.com/blog/archives/2005/01/swift_3d_v4_tut.html http://www.erain.com/blog/archives/2005/01/swift_3d_v4_tut.html Tue, 04 Jan 2005 19:29:11 +0000 Congrats to our Swift 3D Addict Nico da Vinci. This example is only the second project that Nico has ever developed in Swift 3D. Taking that into consideration I'd say Nico is a natural when it comes to Swift 3D.... http://www.erain.com/blog/archives/2005/01/weekly_swift_3d_9.html http://www.erain.com/blog/archives/2005/01/weekly_swift_3d_9.html Mon, 03 Jan 2005 19:04:43 +0000 Here's your chance to learn some character modeling techniques from a Swift 3D Pro. Powetri, who many of you know from the Swift 3D forums and has also won our Site of the Month award, has put together a nice... http://www.erain.com/blog/archives/2004/12/new_character_m.html http://www.erain.com/blog/archives/2004/12/new_character_m.html Wed, 29 Dec 2004 00:21:58 +0000 Congrats to our Swift 3D Addict MouthOpen Media. The fellas over at MouthOpen Media created this animation for the Animation Challange that we held awhile back and they were the winners of the competition as well. Animations such as these... http://www.erain.com/blog/archives/2004/12/weekly_swift_3d_8.html http://www.erain.com/blog/archives/2004/12/weekly_swift_3d_8.html Fri, 17 Dec 2004 18:02:42 +0000 In this tutorial you will learn how to take advantage of Surface Groups and Smoothing Groups in order to get better results from your models. Part one of the tutorial will walk you through the process of creating Surface Groups,... http://www.erain.com/blog/archives/2004/12/advanced_modeli_1.html http://www.erain.com/blog/archives/2004/12/advanced_modeli_1.html Fri, 17 Dec 2004 16:42:07 +0000 Congrats to our Swift 3D Addict Amy Baniecki. Amy created a simple robot-like humanoid, set up the hierarchy and then animated a walkcycle with the robot. The robot itself is comprised of simple shapes (primarily spheres and cyliners). Various parts... http://www.erain.com/blog/archives/2004/11/weekly_swift_3d_7.html http://www.erain.com/blog/archives/2004/11/weekly_swift_3d_7.html Mon, 29 Nov 2004 21:30:30 +0000 Yep, its that time of year again... Time to accidently staple yourself to the roof of your house while trying to put up lights. Time to do some power shopping at the last minute of the holiday season. Time... http://www.erain.com/blog/archives/2004/11/electric_rain_h.html http://www.erain.com/blog/archives/2004/11/electric_rain_h.html Tue, 23 Nov 2004 22:25:35 +0000 Congrats to our Swift 3D Addict Lalo Fuente Martinez. Lalo has produced a life-like product example of a detailed camcorder. The modeling is done quite well and Lalo was able to do something that is a bit of a challange,... http://www.erain.com/blog/archives/2004/11/weekly_swift_3d_6.html http://www.erain.com/blog/archives/2004/11/weekly_swift_3d_6.html Tue, 23 Nov 2004 21:58:00 +0000 I was just working on a project and realized that these printable Swift 3D v4 keyboard shortcut lists might be valuable to some of you. They can be found here: v4 Shortcuts - Printable FlashPaper v4 Shortcuts - PDF... http://www.erain.com/blog/archives/2004/11/swift_3d_v4_sho.html http://www.erain.com/blog/archives/2004/11/swift_3d_v4_sho.html Tue, 16 Nov 2004 18:09:04 +0000 In this weeks blog posting I put together a quick tutorial on modeling tubing and wiring. You'll find that adding tubing and wiring is a great way to compliment your models details or you could make your models comprised entirely... http://www.erain.com/blog/archives/2004/11/advanced_modeli.html http://www.erain.com/blog/archives/2004/11/advanced_modeli.html Mon, 15 Nov 2004 19:54:39 +0000 Do you have an oustanding Swift 3D model or animation that you would like to share with the 3D Community? If so, send your work to Submittals@erain.com and become an offical Swift 3D 'Addict'. If your work is selected you... http://www.erain.com/blog/archives/2004/11/weekly_swift_3d_5.html http://www.erain.com/blog/archives/2004/11/weekly_swift_3d_5.html Mon, 15 Nov 2004 17:27:25 +0000