Making a Simple 2D Animation in Blender

Making a Simple 2D Animation in Blender

I drew this cute white kitty with a pink bow and a little heart pendant around her neck. For future projects, I wanted to bring her to life with a little animation! Initually I was only going to animate her tail... but I thought, why not try to animate a little…
DeviantArt: How to Save Your Post Settings

DeviantArt: How to Save Your Post Settings

When submitting art to DeviantArt, there was always a little checkmark that allowed you to save your post settings, such as default category etc. Turns out that they moved it! I had to search quite a bit to find out how to save your post settings on DeviantArt now, so I…
how to turn a Krita recording into a video with FFmpeg

How to Turn a Krita Recording into a Video with FFmpeg

Every now and then, I like to use the Recording feature in Krita to record the process of my drawings. This is far more ideal than recording the entire screen with OBS Studio, as running that program at the same time as other programs causes my laptop to heat up quite…
Blender Boolean Modifier Ugly Shadow

Blender Boolean Modifier Ugly Shadow

You know how when you cut out an object in Blender with the Boolean Modifier, you sometimes end up with this ugly shading? Well, I've been sitting on this the whole day for some reason and even though I ran into a similar issue with the boolean modifier in Blender before,…
Blender: How to Make Individual Object Not Cast Shadow

Blender: How to Make Individual Object Not Cast Shadow

In the project as seen above, I have a small star displayed in front of a rainbow hovering above a teacup. That tiny star was casting a shadow onto the rainbow, and I didn't want that. So I had to figure out how to make an individual object not cast a…
Blender Problem: Animation Renders Blank

Blender Problem: Animation Renders Blank

I wanted to render an animation in Blender 4.3 and it was working fine, until I changed the size to 65% and changed the output path to a different location. When I pressed Render Animation, a little window popped up but stayed transparent. Even after waiting for a while, nothing happened.…
Blender Grease Pencil Problem: Strokes Overlay

Blender Grease Pencil Problem: Strokes Overlay

I was semi-following along a Blender tutorial on YouTube called Stylized Pizza Art Tutorial by Farrukh 3D when I ran into an unexpected problem as I tried to render my image: my Grease Pencil strokes appeared on top of my model where they should have appeared behind. While within Blender, the…
Blender: Noise Texture Not Applied Properly

Blender: Noise Texture Not Applied Properly

While working on my coffee bean model in Blender that I sculpted, I ran into a problem when I wanted to connect a Noise Texture to add some variation to the colors of the beans. I wasn't sure what was going on, but after a few minutes, I figured it out!…
Blender Problem: Objects Rotate in the Wrong Direction

Blender Problem: Objects Rotate in the Wrong Direction

I was working on a model of a cat robot in Blender, and duplicated (Shirt+D) the model and edited it to make it different from the original one. When I wanted to rotate my duplicated model, the various parts of my cat robot (face, eyes, lower body, tail) rotated around their…
How I Used to Make Art

Making Art The Hard Way – How I Used To Do It

My life as an artist has not always been the same. I used to make art very differently than I do now! Of course, like probably most artists, I started out on paper. (Then again, it could be that a lot of artists nowadays start digitally - with a pen on…