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for this part of my blender curve experiments I animated the extrude and bevel parameter in combination with a solidify modifier

this is my day 19 project for 30daysofcreativity

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I used the uv-coordinates of a icosphere as a texture in a cycles material and animated various mesh-modifier this is my day 16 project for 30daysofcreativity

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I made a procedural parquet texture for cycles

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This texture was generated by multiplying 4 checker textures and animating the scale values

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after reading this article from the Blender NPR blog (which stands for Non Photorealistic Rendering)

I wanted to create a similar material using cycles. For the meta balls I used a Fresnell Input and a coloramp to get the outlines of the figure, for the plane I used the wire-frame material from this post

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I made an animation with two wireframe icospheres and a wireframe material rendered with cycles

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I made a video tutorial showing how to animate a material in cycles. The tutorial is presented by my one-tooth-monster.

This is my first videotutorial for blender - so critics/suggestions/hints/.. are welcome.

This is another animated cycles material. I used a voronoi-texture that uses the generated texture-coordinates as its input.

To animate the cells I add a rgb value to the vector of the texture-coordinate output.

This works since the rgb values are vector values themselve and by animating the color you can shift the texture coordinates around.

you can download the blend file here

First of all - no, cycles still has no hair or particle renderer - BUT To render short hair that doesn't need hair-dynamics you can use object groups to render the hair.

I made some spirales and deformed them using the proportional editing tool with random influence, grouped them together and used them as dubliobjects in a hair particle system on the head figure

The need to have a bevel value and bevel has to be set to full for this to work.

Still not perfect, because of the lack of hair-dynamics, but very nice for some cartoony characters or still images.

you can download the blend file here

For this part of my blender curve experiments I played a bit with a curve modifier and a bezier-curve forming a helix.

you can download the blend file here