Location of the original world HDRI environment map As you can see the names used internally in Blender and the actual file names are different this makes searching for them difficult so I am sharing the list here: City: Portland Landing Pad Courtyard: Courtyard Forest: Ninomaru Teien Interior: Hotel Room Night: Moonless Golf Studio: Studio Small Sunrise: Spruit Sunrise Sunset: Venice Sunsets They are all available on HDRI Haven

Now that Blender has an option for a more Maya like mouse manipulation workflow, and I am back looking at it once again, I noticed one thing I missed from the default Blender mappings… In the default Blender mouse set up you can use the Middle Mouse and the ALT key to perform Axis Snapping and get a quick way to view Left Right Top Front etc. Orthogonal Views. When I switched over to Maya like I thought I had lost this function, as it uses ALT as the main key for manipulations.

Bauhaus Lamp Kaiser Idell 6631 - Blender Marmoset Toolbag

Classic Red Victorinox Swiss Army Knife - Blender Marmoset Toolbag.

Dinky Diecast Fire Engine 555 - Blender Marmoset Toolbag.

Model of an old die cast toy Fireman - Blender Marmoset Toolbag

Brio Speedy Bullet Wooden Train - Blender Marmoset Toolbag

Model of the Emmet character from the Lego movie

Old galvanised metal rubbish bin or trashcan

Grey wooden locomotive from Brio - Blender Cycles

As much as I love shortcuts to take the strain of the mouse I sometimes wish they weren’t quite so obtuse. I don’t play piano and so struggle spreading a hand over some of the combinations Blender uses. Alt M for example is doable but hardly comfortable, while others would require a punishing regime under a trainer to achieve. To this end I decided to tryout the excellent app for iPad calledActions *No longer available.

I have been looking at the interesting render abilities of the Marmoset Toolbag 2 physical based render on the Mac. While I like the results a lot I am not convinced of a place for it in my workflow and here is why: The program creates some very impressive results and has a ton of texturing options however it is only able to produce still frame and a turntable as output.

Original design of a toy fireman robot - Blender Cycles

Original Suffolk Canisters by Henry Watson Pottery - Blender Cycles

Test Render BBC Doctor Who 2005 Dalek - Blender Cycles

Kaiser Idell Bauhaus Lamp by Christian Dell. Blender and Cycles

Model of the Classic Swiss Army Knife from Victorinox

An orange PVC plastic road safety cone - Blender and Cycles Using a bespoke shader to simulate the light absorption through a translucent material in Blender. This is a slightly simpler shader than a full Sub Surface Scattering shader and is based upon the Beer Lambert Law: The Beer–Lambert law, also known as Beer’s law or the Lambert–Beer law or the Beer–Lambert–Bouguer law relates the absorption of light to the properties of the material through which the light is traveling.

Model crown neck bowling pin from Brunswick - Blender Cycles

A cartoon model of a Ewe sheep - Blender Cycles

Western Electric Candlestick Telephone, 1920s - Blender Cycles

Green wooden toy train engine from Brio.

Yellow and red tipper wagon for the Brio train set

A set of dark pine wooden dining chairs - Blender Cycles