ID Studios, Urban Web Studios, Daniel LaBarge - it's all the same! This is my personal
window on the world, where I share my ideas, thoughts, and artwork in a friendly way. I've combined my old Blender blogs and my new portfolio site into one blog. There's info about everything: Blender, GIMP, Yafray, Inkscape, Photoshop, Flash, PHP, MySQL, XHTML, CSS, AJAX, and so much more! Be sure to check drop me a message at daniel@urbanpowered.com!
Sandra Gilbert just announced that the latest edition of BlenderArt Magazine has been released. You can get your copy at BlenderArt Magazine or here [files].
In this issue we take a look at some of the techniques used to create spectacular effects in Blender. With several areas covered such as water, smoke, fire, hair and even realistic skin, you are guaranteed to find a new technique/or tool for your next project.
You are looking for it, it’s just in the wrong place. I’ve been working really hard to get everything up and running once again but sometimes things just take a little while longer. So update your bookmarks and your site links to the new permanent home (well for a long while anyways) for the ID Studios BlenderArt Magazine Mirror. All of the past BlenderArt Magazine issues are available from this post and I’ll try to post all future ones promptly in this category so bookmark it!
This is kind of random but I think that my beloved Google is trying to kill me. I’m not kidding, just take a look at the photo in this post. There I was, just minding my own business, looking up direction to a near by cafe when suddenly I heard that psycho music playing in the background and the grim shadow rising over my laptop. It was then I knew Google was trying to kill me…
Well, I have officially made the switch from ID Studios to Urban Web Studios. I have always operated under my private website name and posted all my artwork there, but I’ve decided now to migrate more to web development. So, with that decision comes the need for a new site (which I have had for a while). I have dropped the intellidesign.org domain name but have kept the idstudios.org domain. Operating under the long version of my studio’s name, my primary domain is urbanwebstudios.com. A parked domain for those who like to keep it shorter: urbanpowered.com. I’ve put some redirects on the old ID Studios site to point to the blog and to certain pages of the blog for those trying to find stuff that they used to get!
Many of you use iGoogle or Google Reader to RSS feed your favorite news and tutorials so I figured that I would give a break down on the latest and greatest in industry resources. I basically break them into four columns: Personal, Web Applications, Inspiration, and Tutorials. I guess I could make tabs out of them but that’s another click, and well, I am lazy.
I love free. That’s no secret. The thing I like more than free is free stuff that works better than the junk you have to pay for! A perfect example of this awesomeness is GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program). It’s been a couple weeks since they released their latest version of their Photoshop equivalent program but it’s still something worth shouting about. I’ve been running it in fully professional environment for these past few weeks and it’s performed incredibly! So here is my professional break down on it’s capabilities.
Yes, I know! It’s been a very long time since I last posted. For those interested, I’ve been so busy with work, college, and did I mention work!? I’ve been so busy designing the web that I haven’t had time to post any of my work even! Blender has come along and it’s nice to see that this great magazine is still pumping out a bunch of great tutorials. Somewhere in all of this chaos I’m going to have to try some of them out…
The BlenderArt magazine Issue #11 is available to download! The main theme for this number is Mechanical, which gives us 60 pages of art and tutorials about modeling and rendering techniques, for creating mechanical models in Blender. If you ever wanted to use Blender as a CAD modeling software, this might be your change to learn some nice tricks for modeling with precision.
It’s a great day for the Blender community and for anyone who loves organic modelling. This issue is all about organic stuff. So get your mouse ready and learn how to model everything from faces to frogs. The cover features the amazing work of Enrico Cerica and the gallery features other quality work by such people as Plant Person.
I finally got around to updating the static image on the home page with the flash portfolio that I had been planning. It’s nothing fancy just a small preview of each image in the portfolio and if you click on it, it will open it up into a larger preview. It’s not all of my artwork, only about 3/4 of it. I don’t have any of my website portfolio on there either. I may do that in a post one of these days. I just figured I’d let everyone know that I got around to updating it so be sure to check it out!
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