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Just when I thought I've captured every different kind of animal in our neighborhood, along comes a few thirsty coyotes looking for a quick drink of water at the Trail Cam watering hole. I guess it is a good idea for pet owners to keep their small cats and dogs indoors around this area. These videos were captured by the trail camera on Thursday morning, March 9th, 2023. If you enjoyed this video, please smash that like button, & leave a comment or a question below. And you can always subscribe to my channel as well, I create new content all the time, so don't forget to check back weekly! Thanks for stopping by!

The short version of my Robot Dance, with “Microphone-Head Robot” dancing Gangnam Style. Check out the full version here: https://youtu.be/L9gXUI7b-fQ

The Dance Robot is BACK! And this time he has a new title: Kung Fu Robot! Watch as "Microphone Head" Kung Fu Robot displays his Martial Art skills in a Space Coliseum in a distance Galaxy. I had so much fun with Dance Robot, I had to create another one. This time Kung Robot has a few upgrades to help him perform better. His new CPU is UltraPentium Chip 3000XM, which is able to process 5 billion commands every second! Whoa! He really kicks butt now! Thanks again to Polyfjord for his insightful tutorials. Created in Blender 3.4.1, April 22nd, 2023. Music ( Youtube Royalty free ): Hit the Streets (Version 2) by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. Ninja Tortoise by Verified Picasso. Hon Kyoto by Doug Maxwell/ Zac Zinger. If you enjoyed this video, please smash that like button, & leave a comment or a question below. And you can always subscribe to my channel as well, I create new content all the time, so don't forget to check back weekly! Thanks for stopping by!

My latest Blender creation - A robot doing a Gangnam Style dance to the beat of some rave music - in 4K! I learned to use motion capture paired up with a robot character I created in Blender, with the help of a tutorial by Polyfjord on Youtube. I chose to use a cool-looking vintage microphone as the robots head. Motion capture sequence provided by Mixamo.com. Unfortunately, I can't actually use the "Gangnam Style" song, or I'd get dinged with copyright infringement. Created in Blender 3.4.1, April 17th, 2023. If you enjoyed this video, please smash that like button, & leave a comment or a question. You can always subscribe to my channel as well. Thanks for stopping by!

“You tell ‘em I’m comin’! And hail is comin’ with me, ya here?! Hail is comin’ with me!!”

Another Blender project, the Osiris-REx probe, sent out by NASA to obtain a sample of the Bennu asteroid. It was launched on September 8th, 2016. As I enjoy creating these silly projects in Blender, I am also simultaneously learning so much with each creation. My goal is to become a Blender expert, but there is so much more to learn. Wikipedia: OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer) is a NASA asteroid-study and sample-return mission. The mission's primary goal is to obtain a sample of at least 60 g (2.1 oz) from 101955 Bennu, a carbonaceous near-Earth asteroid, and return the sample to Earth for a detailed analysis. The material returned is expected to enable scientists to learn more about the formation and evolution of the Solar System, its initial stages of planet formation, and the source of organic compounds that led to the formation of life on Earth. OSIRIS-REx was launched on 8 September 2016, flew past Earth on 22 September 2017, and rendezvoused with Bennu on 3 December 2018. It spent the next several months analyzing the surface to find a suitable site from which to extract a sample. On 20 October 2020, OSIRIS-REx touched down on Bennu and successfully collected a sample. Though some of the sample escaped when the flap that should have closed the sampler head was jammed open by larger rocks, NASA is confident that they were able to retain between 400 g and over 1 kg of sample material, well in excess of the 60 g (2.1 oz) minimum target mass. OSIRIS-REx is expected to return with its sample to Earth on 24 September 2023 and subsequently start its new mission to study 99942 Apophis as OSIRIS-APEX ('APophis EXplorer'), arriving at that asteroid in 2029. Bennu was chosen as the target of study because it is a "time capsule" from the birth of the Solar System. Bennu has a very dark surface and is classified as a B-type asteroid, a sub-type of the carbonaceous C-type asteroids. Such asteroids are considered primitive, having undergone little geological change from their time of formation. In particular, Bennu was selected because of the availability of pristine carbonaceous material, a key element in organic molecules necessary for life as well as representative of matter from before the formation of Earth. Organic molecules, such as amino acids, have previously been found in meteorite and comet samples, indicating that some ingredients necessary for life can be naturally synthesized in outer space. The cost of the mission is approximately US$800 million, not including the Atlas V launch vehicle, which is about US$183.5 million. It is the third planetary science mission selected in the New Frontiers program, after Juno and New Horizons. The principal investigator is Dante Lauretta from the University of Arizona. If successful, OSIRIS-REx will be the first United States spacecraft to return samples from an asteroid. The Japanese probe Hayabusa returned samples from 25143 Itokawa in 2010, and Hayabusa2 returned from 162173 Ryugu in December 2020. On 10 May 2021, OSIRIS-REx successfully completed its departure from Bennu and began its two-year return to Earth. Overall management, engineering and navigation for the mission is provided by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, while the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory provides principal science operations and Lockheed Martin Space Systems built the spacecraft and provides mission operations. The science team includes members from the United States, Canada, France, Germany, United Kingdom, and Italy. After traveling for approximately two years, the spacecraft rendezvoused with asteroid 101955 Bennu in December 2018, and began 505 days of surface mapping at a distance of approximately 5 km (3.1 mi). Results of that mapping were used by the mission team to select the site from which to take a sample of the asteroid's surface. Then a close approach (without landing) was carried out to allow extension of a robotic arm to gather the sample. Following a collection of material (60 grams), the sample will be returned to Earth in a 46 kg (101 lb) capsule similar to that which returned the samples of a comet 81P/Wild on the Stardust spacecraft. The return trip to Earth will be shorter and the capsule will land with a parachute at the Utah Test and Training Range in September 2023 before being transported to the Johnson Space Center for processing in a dedicated research facility. The launch was on 8 September 2016 at 23:05 UTC on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 411 from Cape Canaveral, Space Launch Complex 41. The 411 rocket configuration consists of a RD-180 powered first stage with a single AJ-60A solid fuel booster, and a Centaur upper stage. OSIRIS-REx separated from the launch vehicle 55 minutes after ignition. Created in Blender 3.4.1 on April 15th, 2023. Thanks to solar system.nasa.gov for supplying the 3D model for this project. If you enjoyed this video, please smash that like button, & leave a comment or a question. You can always subscribe to my channel as well. Thanks for stopping by!

Mariner 10 was an American robotic space probe launched by NASA on 3 November 1973, to fly by the planets Mercury and Venus. It was the first spacecraft to perform flybys of multiple planets. Mariner 10 was launched approximately two years after Mariner 9 and was the last spacecraft in the Mariner program. (Mariner 11 and Mariner 12 were allocated to the Voyager program and redesignated Voyager 1 and Voyager 2.) The mission objectives were to measure Mercury's environment, atmosphere, surface, and body characteristics and to make similar investigations of Venus. Secondary objectives were to perform experiments in the interplanetary medium and to obtain experience with a dual-planet gravity assist mission. Mariner 10's science team was led by Bruce C. Murray at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Design and trajectory: An artists' impression of the Mariner 10 mission. The first mission to perform an interplanetary gravity assist, it used a flyby of the planet Venus in order to decrease its perihelion. This would allow the spacecraft to meet Mercury on three occasions in 1974 and 1975. Mariner 10 was the first spacecraft to make use of an interplanetary gravitational slingshot maneuver, using Venus to bend its flight path and bring its perihelion down to the level of Mercury's orbit. This maneuver, inspired by the orbital mechanics calculations of the Italian scientist Giuseppe Colombo, put the spacecraft into an orbit that repeatedly brought it back to Mercury. Mariner 10 used the solar radiation pressure on its solar panels and its high-gain antenna as a means of attitude control during flight, the first spacecraft to use active solar pressure control. The components on Mariner 10 can be categorized into four groups based on their common function. The solar panels, power subsystem, attitude control subsystem, and the computer kept the spacecraft operating properly during the flight. The navigational system, including the hydrazine rocket, would keep Mariner 10 on track to Venus and Mercury. Several scientific instruments would collect data at the two planets. Finally, the antennas would transmit this data to the Deep Space Network back on Earth, as well as receive commands from Mission Control. Mariner 10's various components and scientific instruments were attached to a central hub, which was roughly the shape of an octagonal prism. The hub stored the spacecraft's internal electronics. The Mariner 10 spacecraft was manufactured by Boeing. NASA set a strict limit of US$98 million for Mariner 10's total cost, which marked the first time the agency subjected a mission to an inflexible budget constraint. No overruns would be tolerated, so mission planners carefully considered cost efficiency when designing the spacecraft's instruments. Cost control was primarily accomplished by executing contract work closer to the launch date than was recommended by normal mission schedules, as reducing the length of available work time increased cost efficiency. Despite the rushed schedule, very few deadlines were missed. The mission ended up about US$1 million under budget. Attitude control is needed to keep a spacecraft's instruments and antennas aimed in the correct direction. During course correction maneuvers, the spacecraft may need to rotate so that its rocket engine faces the proper direction before being fired. Mariner 10 determined its attitude using two optical sensors, one pointed at the Sun, and the other at a bright star, usually Canopus; additionally, the probe's three gyroscopes provided a second option for calculating the attitude. Nitrogen gas thrusters were used to adjust Mariner 10's orientation along three axes. The spacecraft's electronics were intricate and complex: it contained over 32,000 pieces of circuitry, of which resistors, capacitors, diodes, microcircuits, and transistors were the most common devices. Commands for the instruments could be stored on Mariner 10's computer, but were limited to 512 words. The rest had to be broadcast by the Mission Sequence Working Group from Earth. Supplying the spacecraft components with power required modifying the electrical output of the solar panels. The power subsystem used two redundant sets of circuitry, each containing a booster regulator and an inverter, to convert the panels' DC output to AC and alter the voltage to the necessary level. The subsystem could store up to 20 ampere hours of electricity on a 39-volt nickel–cadmium battery. Created in Blender 3.4.1 on April 7th, 2023. Thanks to Free3D.com for a gray colorless version of the Mariner 10 3D model. I added in the color and shading. Music: Hades Decent by Unknown Artist. If you enjoyed this video, please smash that like button, & leave a comment or a question. You can always subscribe to my channel as well. Thanks for stopping by!

Trail cam footage from January 16th through the 21st, 2023. No lions, tigers or bears, but several possums, foxes and raccoons, and a bunch of squirrels and birds. Maybe someday I'll catch a glimpse of Bigfoot. If you enjoyed this video, please smash that like button, & leave a comment or a question. You can always subscribe to my channel as well. Thanks for stopping by!

Many birds showed up on this day to splash around in the trail cam bird bath. It seems like all the birds were buddies and pals when it came to water fun. Even the bluejay was being nice. This footage was taken by the trail cam on Monday, January 16th, 2023, which was Martin Luther King Jr Day. Music: "Gently, Onwards" by ELPHNT, Youtube Royalty free music. If you enjoyed this video, please smash that like button, & leave a comment or a question. You can always subscribe to my channel as well. Thanks for stopping by!

I have learned how to create a three layered 3D logo in Blender. I also figured out how to add an image texture to the face of a font in Blender as well. Geometry Nodes are a really cool thing in Blender! This was created in Blender version 3.4.1, with the help of the following "Blender Tutorial": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO26cXGcpN0&list=PLni7xOVX2OwV3aBTDajoJy18Ps2-YOPdu&index=61 Music: "Above Planets", Royalty free music by Patrick Patrikios. If you enjoyed this video, please smash that like button, & leave a comment or a question. You can always subscribe to my channel as well. Thanks for stopping by!

Down spouts at my work facility near downtown Kansas City, Missouri today. Torrential rains most of this morning!

A red cardinal, happy with the warm spring weather, sings to me in the backyard. 

Mercury - The Planet. I'm back again with another Blender project, this time I created the planet Mercury, the planet that is closest to our Solar System's Sun. Wikipedia: Mercury is the smallest planet in the Solar System and the closest to the Sun. Its orbit around the Sun takes 87.97 Earth days, the shortest of all the Sun's planets. It is named after the Roman god Mercurius (Mercury), god of commerce, messenger of the gods, and mediator between gods and mortals, corresponding to the Greek god Hermes (Ἑρμῆς). Like Venus, Mercury orbits the Sun within Earth's orbit as an inferior planet; its apparent distance from the Sun as viewed from Earth never exceeds 28°. This proximity to the Sun means the planet can only be seen near the western horizon after sunset or the eastern horizon before sunrise, usually in twilight. At this time, it may appear as a bright star-like object, but is more difficult to observe than Venus. From Earth, the planet telescopically displays the complete range of phases, similar to Venus and the Moon, which recurs over its synodic period of approximately 116 days. Due to its synodic proximity to Earth, Mercury is most often the closest planet to Earth, with Venus periodically taking this role. Mercury rotates in a way that is unique in the Solar System. It is tidally locked with the Sun in a 3:2 spin–orbit resonance, meaning that relative to the fixed stars, it rotates on its axis exactly three times for every two revolutions it makes around the Sun. As seen from the Sun, in a frame of reference that rotates with the orbital motion, it appears to rotate only once every two Mercurian years. An observer on Mercury would therefore see only one day every two Mercurian years. Mercury's axis has the smallest tilt of any of the Solar System's planets (about 1⁄30 degree). Its orbital eccentricity is the largest of all known planets in the Solar System; at perihelion, Mercury's distance from the Sun is only about two-thirds (or 66%) of its distance at aphelion. Mercury's surface appears heavily cratered and is similar in appearance to the Moon's, indicating that it has been geologically inactive for billions of years. Having almost no atmosphere to retain heat, it has surface temperatures that vary diurnally more than on any other planet in the Solar System, ranging from 100 K (−173 °C; −280 °F) at night to 700 K (427 °C; 800 °F) during the day across the equatorial regions. The polar regions are constantly below 180 K (−93 °C; −136 °F). The planet has no natural satellites. Two spacecraft have visited Mercury: Mariner 10 flew by in 1974 and 1975; and MESSENGER, launched in 2004, orbited Mercury over 4,000 times in four years before exhausting its fuel and crashing into the planet's surface on April 30, 2015. The BepiColombo spacecraft is planned to arrive at Mercury in 2025. Physical characteristics: Mercury is one of four terrestrial planets in the Solar System, and is a rocky body like Earth. It is the smallest planet in the Solar System, with an equatorial radius of 2,439.7 kilometres (1,516.0 mi). Mercury is also smaller—albeit more massive—than the largest natural satellites in the Solar System, Ganymede and Titan. Mercury consists of approximately 70% metallic and 30% silicate material. Orbit, rotation, and longitude Orbit of Mercury (2006): Animation of Mercury's and Earth's revolution around the Sun. Mercury has the most eccentric orbit of all the planets in the Solar System; its eccentricity is 0.21 with its distance from the Sun ranging from 46,000,000 to 70,000,000 km (29,000,000 to 43,000,000 mi). It takes 87.969 Earth days to complete an orbit. The diagram illustrates the effects of the eccentricity, showing Mercury's orbit overlaid with a circular orbit having the same semi-major axis. Mercury's higher velocity when it is near perihelion is clear from the greater distance it covers in each 5-day interval. In the diagram, the varying distance of Mercury to the Sun is represented by the size of the planet, which is inversely proportional to Mercury's distance from the Sun. This varying distance to the Sun leads to Mercury's surface being flexed by tidal bulges raised by the Sun that are about 17 times stronger than the Moon's on Earth. Combined with a 3:2 spin–orbit resonance of the planet's rotation around its axis, it also results in complex variations of the surface temperature. The resonance makes a single solar day (the length between two meridian transits of the Sun) on Mercury last exactly two Mercury years, or about 176 Earth days. Created in Blender 3.4.1 on April 6th, 2023. Thanks to Free3D.com for a gray colorless version of the Mariner 10 3D model. I added in the color and shading. Music: Hades Decent by Unknown Artist. If you enjoyed this video, please smash that like button, & leave a comment or a question. You can always subscribe to my channel as well. Thanks for stopping by!

Had to wait for the train the other morning on the way to work. “Last Train To Clarksdale” by The Monkees.

Mars - The Planet. Another Blender project in my series of planets that I have created using Blender version 3.4.1. For this video, I arranged the two moons Phobos and Deimos to orbit Mars, the moon Phobos being closest to Mars at 3,700 miles from its surface, and it orbits Mars every 7 hours and 39 minutes. The moon Deimos, which is one-seventh the mass of Phobos, orbits at a distance of 14,577 miles for Mars surface, and it takes Deimos about 30 hours and 20 minutes for one rotation around Mars. Both moons Phobos and Deimos are not shaped like conventional moons usually are. Both are oblong, and Phobos is shaped like a potato. Unfortunately for this project, I was not able to give axis rotations to either of the the two moons. Hopefully I'll be able to figure that feature out in future Blender projects. Phobos: 0:07 Deimos: 0:20 MarCO: 0:44 Maven: 0:58 Odysse: 1:14 Curiosity: 1:28 Spirit Explorer: 1:54 Bonus Footage: 6:53 From solarsystem.NASA.gov: Size & Distance: With a radius of 2,106 miles (3,390 kilometers), Mars is about half the size of Earth. If Earth were the size of a nickel, Mars would be about as big as a raspberry. From an average distance of 142 million miles (228 million kilometers), Mars is 1.5 astronomical units away from the Sun. One astronomical unit (abbreviated as AU), is the distance from the Sun to Earth. From this distance, it takes sunlight 13 minutes to travel from the Sun to Mars. Orbit & Rotation: As Mars orbits the Sun, it completes one rotation every 24.6 hours, which is very similar to one day on Earth (23.9 hours). Martian days are called sols – short for "solar day." A year on Mars lasts 669.6 sols, which is the same as 687 Earth days. Moons: Phobos and Deimos, that may be captured asteroids. They're potato-shaped because they have too little mass for gravity to make them spherical. The moons get their names from the horses that pulled the chariot of the Greek god of war, Ares. Phobos, the innermost and larger moon, is heavily cratered, with deep grooves on its surface. It is slowly moving towards Mars and will crash into the planet or break apart in about 50 million years. Deimos is about half as big as Phobos and orbits two and a half times farther away from Mars. Oddly-shaped Deimos is covered in loose dirt that often fills the craters on its surface, making it appear smoother than pockmarked Phobos. MarCO Spacecraft(Mars Cube One): On May 5, 2018, NASA launched a spacecraft called InSight that landed on Mars on Nov. 26, 2018. Riding along with InSight were two CubeSats—the first of this kind of spacecraft to fly to deep space. The CubeSats were part of a technology demonstration mission called Mars Cube One (MarCO). The MarCO twins were nicknamed EVE and WALL-E after characters from Pixar's "WALL-E" movie. The spacecraft provided an experimental communications relay to let scientists on Earth know quickly about InSight's landing. MarCO A and B successfully completed their missions on Nov. 26, 2018. WALL-E was last heard from on Dec. 29, 2018; EVE on Jan. 4, 2019. MAVEN Mars Orbiter: NASA's MAVEN is currently orbiting Mars studying the structure and composition of the upper atmosphere of the Red Planet. In early 2019, MAVEN was shifted to a lower orbit to prepare it to take on additional responsibility as a data-relay satellite for NASA’s Mars 2020 rover. MAVEN's mission was designed for two years, but the spacecraft has enough fuel to operate through 2030. Mars Odyssey Probe: NASA's Mars Odyssey holds the record for the longest continually active spacecraft in orbit around a planet other than Earth. It's been in orbit since Oct. 24, 2001. The spacecraft's main mission is to investigate the Martian environment and to provide key information on hazards future explorers might face. Mars Curiosity Rover(MSL): NASA's Curiosity is the largest and most advanced rover ever sent to Mars. The car-sized rover is part of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL). Curiosity's ongoing mission is to study the ancient habitability and the potential for life on Mars. The rover began its first drive on Mars Aug. 29, 2012. The rover is about as tall as a basketball player and uses a 7-foot (2-meter) arm to place tools close to rocks for study. Mars Spirit Explorer Rover: NASA's Spirit rover—and its twin Opportunity—studied the history of climate and water at sites on Mars where conditions may once have been favorable to life. Spirit uncovered strong evidence that Mars was once much wetter than it is now. Described as a "wonderful workhorse"—Spirit operated for 6 years, 2 months, and 19 days, more than 25 times its original intended lifetime. The rover traveled 4.8 miles (7.73 kilometers) across the Martian plains. Music: "Stems Bass Bus" - by Doctor Dreamchip. If you enjoyed this video, please smash that like button, & leave a comment or a question. You can always subscribe to my channel as well. Thanks for stopping by!

A loony bird banging its head against the steel top of a neighbors backyard gazebo.  this bird shows up every day to bang its head in this fashion. Over and over and over again. Is this a woodpecker? Or is it a steelpecker? Or maybe it’s a metalpecker. . What do you think? 

Jupiter - The Planet. Another Blender planet project I created using version 3.4.1. For this video, I figured out how to incorporate twinkling stars, and was able to perfect my shooting stars a little better as well. If you pay attention, Pioneer 11, the NASA satellite that was launched in the early 2000's, will make an appearance and will do a pass by Jupiter. Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a mass more than two and a half times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined, and slightly less than one one-thousandth the mass of the Sun. Jupiter is the third brightest natural object in the Earth's night sky after the Moon and Venus, and it has been observed since prehistoric times. It was named after Jupiter, the chief deity of ancient Roman religion. Jupiter is primarily composed of hydrogen, followed by helium, which constitutes a quarter of its mass and a tenth of its volume. The ongoing contraction of Jupiter's interior generates more heat than the planet receives from the Sun. Because of its rapid rotation rate of 1 rotation per 10 hours, the planet's shape is an oblate spheroid: it has a slight but noticeable bulge around the equator. The outer atmosphere is divided into a series of latitudinal bands, with turbulence and storms along their interacting boundaries. A prominent result of this is the Great Red Spot, a giant storm which has been observed since at least 1831. Jupiter is surrounded by a faint planetary ring system and has a powerful magnetosphere. The planet's magnetic tail is nearly 800 million kilometres (5.3 astronomical units; 500 million miles) long. Jupiter has 95 known moons and probably many more, including the four large moons discovered by Galileo Galilei in 1610: Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. Ganymede, the largest of the four, is larger than the planet Mercury. Callisto is the second largest; Io and Europa are approximately the size of Earth's moon. Pioneer 10 was the first spacecraft to visit Jupiter, making its closest approach to the planet in December 1973. Jupiter has since been explored by multiple robotic spacecraft, beginning with the Pioneer and Voyager flyby missions from 1973 to 1979. The Galileo orbiter arrived in orbit around Jupiter in 1995. In 2007, New Horizons visited Jupiter for a gravity assist to increase its speed and bend its trajectory on the way to Pluto. The latest probe to visit Jupiter, Juno, entered its orbit in July 2016. Future targets for exploration in the Jupiter system include its moon Europa, which probably has an ice-covered liquid ocean which scientists think could sustain life. Jupiter is a gas giant, being primarily composed of gas and liquid rather than solid matter. It is the largest planet in the Solar System, with a diameter of 142,984 km (88,846 mi) at its equator.[36] The average density of Jupiter, 1.326 g/cm3, is about the same as simple syrup (syrup USP),[37] and is lower than those of the four terrestrial planets. Pioneer 11: 4:00 This video was created on Tuesday, March 28th, 2023. Music: Deep Breathing Beast With Reverse Clicks - by dude awesome. Credit: Pioneer 11 Blender model created by Danny Gallegos on Sketchfab. If you enjoyed this video, please smash that like button, and leave a comment or a question if you have one. So you won't miss out on upcoming cool videos like this one. You can always subscribe to my channel as well. Thanks for stopping by!

In this quick tutorial I reveal one of the hidden features inside of Blender that many Blender users don't know about. I call it "addressing the elephant in the room". Blender version 3.4.1. Check out my Blender moon creation: https://youtu.be/0YDkBVIoLf8 If you enjoyed this video, please smash that like button, and leave a comment or a question if you have one. So you won't miss out on upcoming cool videos like this one. You can always subscribe to my channel as well. Thanks for stopping by! This video was created on Saturday, March 25th, 2023. Note: This is a parody on Youtube Blender tutorials, it is a joke and not intended to be serious. But in the future, I will be coming out with serious Blender tutorials, explaining how to do certain features that some Blender beginners might know about. So stay tuned!

The Moon - This is what the visual would look like if our Moon rotated on an axis. Since the Moon does not rotate, all we see is the same surface side every night. A bit of a phenomenon as far as satellite moons go in our Solar System, and maybe even in all of the Milky Way Galaxy. Notice all the craters that have been caused by meteors over the millions of years. I put this video together in Blender, version 3.4.1, using a Moon image provided by NASA. It is pretty much an accurate depiction of the Moon if we were to see The Dark Side ( The Far Side, actually ), the side which we never get to see with our naked eyes. Three full rotations in full 4K for your viewing pleasure. It looks best on a large screen 4K HDTV. Shooting Star: 1:05 Shooting Star: 6:05 Shooting Star: 11:05 Moon info: It takes 27.3 days for the Moon to travel all the way around the Earth. Distance from the Earth to the Moon is 238,900 miles. The Moon’s surface gravity is about one-sixth of Earth's at 0.1654 g. The Moon’s average orbital speed is 1.022 kilometers per second. The Moon's diameter is about 3,500 kilometers, more than a quarter of Earth's, with the face of the Moon comparable to the width of Australia. The crater that looks like a naval that is on the southern portion of the Moon of the surface that faces Earth, is called the Tycho Crater. A link to a list of the Moon’s craters: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_craters_on_the_Moon Music: Dronescape - by Jesus Lastra Moog Jam - by Amazezues This video was created on Wednesday, March 22nd, 2023. If you enjoyed this video, please smash that like button, and leave a comment or a question if you have one. So you won't miss out on upcoming cool videos like this one. You can always subscribe to my channel as well. Thanks for stopping by!

Late one night, a hungry raccoon scurried his way to the water hole, and was happy to discover someone had left a good amount of pumpkin seeds lying on the tree stump. As he devoured the seeds, the trail camera caught it all. He stayed a while, allowing the trail cam to capture several clips of him eating his delicious meal. For this clip, I was able to arrange all four of these clips in Blender and add a quick tile. It made for an interesting set-up. These video clips were captured on Monday, January 16th, 2023, around 8:00 PM.

This is my first Blender project dealing with planets. Obviously I chose the Earth as my first attempt at rendering a planet. And as long as I was trying to create Earth, I might as well create the Moon as well, right? And as long as I was creating the Earth and the moon, I might as well include the Sun as well, right?! Ok, after the Sun, I drew a line. That was enough learning for this project. I don't want to get projects too complicated. Not yet, at least. Anyways, I think overall it turned out pretty good. I added in a few interesting stats that I recently learned about the velocity of the Earth as it traverses around the Sun, through our Solar System and our Milky Way. I tried to make most things as accurate as I could in the limited time I chose to work on this project. But I'm sure I got more things wrong than I got right during this learning experience. I'll try to get more accurate in future projects, this one was mainly just for fun. And for all you "Flat Earthers" out there, I might try and do a special video for you in the near future! Check out my moon Animation : https://rumble.com/v2eg60j-the-moon.html Thanks goes out the following for helpful Youtube video tutorials: 5 Minute Blender Neb Motion Tutorials CBailyFilm joepavitt3d CG Geek This tutorial was created using Blender 3.4.1 on March 11th & 12th, 2023. If you enjoyed this video, please smash that like button, and leave a comment or a question if you have one. So you won't miss out on upcoming cool videos like this one, you can always subscribe to my channel as well. Thanks for stopping by!

An AnkerMake M5 3-D printer in action at Micro Center in Overland Park, Kansas.  $ 799.99, out of stock.

This was another experiment I did with the same rotating Argyle302 Animations logo, but this time I was able to incorporate 5 different camera angles during the sequence or rotations. The multiple camera angle feature is truly a game changer in Blender, allowing you to give animations various perspectives inside your animation project. So cool! The sound ended up a bit weak after exporting out of iMovie, which was the only downside in this project. This video was created on Tuesday and Wednesday, March 7th and 8th, 2023. If you enjoyed this video, please smash that like button, and leave a comment or a question if you have one. So you won't miss out on upcoming cool videos like this one, you can always subscribe to my channel as well. Thanks for stopping by!

My first attempt at the “Satisfying Ball Animation” tutorial by “CG Geek”. It mostly worked out for me, but I have since moved on now trying to create my own version of this concept , but I am having troubles with the physics & lighting. So I’ll just have to stick with it and see if I can solve my issues. But until then, this is all I’ve got on this one so far. 😕 The actual rendering of this video made it come out in a beautiful 1080P visual, but uploading it to short, has really degradated. The quality doesn’t look anything like 1080P. It looks more like 360 crap from 10 years ago. 😂🤣😂

Another fun Blender animation.