Register New Sidebars in WordPress with Advanced Custom Fields

The Advanced Custom Fields plugin offers a plethora of possibilities for enhancing WordPress functionality. The following is an example of one such possibility. In the process of building a new WordPress theme for a client, I wanted a way for administrators to dynamically create new widgetized sidebars and then select which sidebar to use on … Continued

Dynamic CSS in WordPress with Advanced Custom Fields

I absolutely love Advanced Custom Fields and use it for every WordPress based project I develope. This, in hand with the Custom Post Types UI plugin really help to flesh out WordPress as a much more complete content management system. With the help of many other WordPress users and Google searches I have been using … Continued

Volumetric Trees in Blender 2.59

During the course of creating my “Bag End” scene for The Nature Academy competition one of the things I knew would be a challenge would be the sheer number of trees that would need to be created for the mid-ground landscape. The obvious solution would have been to use an array of various 2D trees … Continued

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Bag End – The Nature Academy Competition Entry

Throughout the course of Andrew Price’s “The Nature Academy” Blender 3D training, images of the Shire continually popped into my head. It’s lush green imagery isĀ evocativeĀ of nature in every way. When the competition was announced, I knew immediately what my subject would be. There are more than 60 hours in this project, not including render … Continued

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The Nature Academy – Week 1

These are the final results of my first week of Blender 3D training with Andrew Price’s “The Nature Academy”. A vast portion of the tips and trick for blender that I have picked up over the years are due to Andrew’s (www.blenderguru.org) excellent video tutorials. I’d like to thank him for providing this amazing resource. … Continued