The monkey fist has always been my favorite knot. One of the most difficult to achieve: I spent a whole summer in the 90’s to accomplish a sufficient one. With a ball of paper in the center, or better, a lead ball.
Because the monkey fist, a perfect sphere made of tighten rope necks, resembling strong thin fingers, was a useful knot: used as a throwing weight, on the docks for mooring lines.
Continue reading Monkey fist, sails and all the knots on a single rope
The day when I was drawing the illustrations in the weather section, and the cumulonimbus specifically, it happened the same evening that I met a real one, as it could have taken out exactly from my infographic map.
Shortly thereafter, a storm of lightning and raining happened just as the weather visual forecasts promises. The menacing mushroom-shaped column of the cumulonimbus leaves no hope: nearby lightning and extreme weather are probable, just as written on the map.
A new version for “Learn blender with a poster”, 1.73 for Blender 2.79. As today, the Blender infographic poster has been downloaded more than 110.000 times, and I’m so glad. Developers, teachers and designers are really loving this giant shortcut map and I’m encouraged to update. Thanks for all the suggestions and hints about it.
As it is evolving now with so dense and complex diagrams (I’m also getting many complaints about it) it’s not only a list of shortcuts. It’s basically my reference mind map of functions in blender. I’m including every note or tip I risk to forget in time and I use it to plan my workflow on every modeling project.
Continue reading Blender 2.79 and custom orientationIt’s 2 years working on the blender poster! For 1 month you’ll get a promo discount on the vector version of the poster infographic.
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All about sailing in a poster updated! A new piece of sailing history is in the illustrated timeline: roman galea with its typical rostrum and bow eye. I added a block and connected with the figure eight knot, making the bottom right frame even more appealing. Some improvements in lettering and on some details on various graphics elements.
The version 1.6 of Learn Blender with a Poster introduce some of the new functions from Blender 2.78. New mustload add-ons: Carves, Archimesh, Measure It. Edit mode select region (ctrl+shift+RC). Driver inputs (ctrl+d), very useful to sync transformations on different axis. More connections between nodes, I’m really trying to tie functions and techniques. Minor fixes and graphic improvements.
Continue reading Blender 2.78, carving, curves and inputs
All about sailing in a poster infographic updated to version 1.37!
Adding terms is getting more and more difficult everytime. Because I’m trying to connect and integrate with the existing elements, more than expanding.
Continue reading Apparent wind and lettering03/09/2016 Update: Minor fixes; ALT+S shrink-fatten function added in edit mode section; Modeling icons added for extrude, click extrude, knife, spin.
Update 28/08/2016, ver. 1.36
Added some nautical terms and minor fixes on the english version. I removed the previous generic oar boat and drew dinghy boat with a mast. Islands directions are bigger and added to the legenda as “local informations”. And most important, the illustrations now covers over the margins. On the left the new Dinghy illustration included in the poster.
Main article post about this work
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Blender infographic poster as previously announced, is evolving: not only shortcuts but an entire mind map with the blender knowledge.
Many of you are already scared by complexity, others are suggesting to add a lot more shortcuts: but my goal is not to simply list EVERYTHING. I just want to map as much as I can choosing the most useful functions and killer tips.
