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Another Blender project I've been working on lately. This one taught me how to use some of the physics properties while working with animated spheres, with the help of YouTube's PIXXO 3D tutorial. This video was completed on Wednesday, May 24th, 2023, in Blender 3.4.1 and iMovie. 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! More Blender tutorials to come! Thanks for stopping by!

The Duck Song duck is back! And this time he is more determined than ever to get his grapes. In this short, we see him boarding a retro rocket spaceship, and blasts off on his quest to reach the forbidden “Planet Of The Grapes”! Will he make it there? Will he survive? Will he get his grapes?? Tune in to the full video linked below!  Full video: https://youtu.be/07WHnyhdDBo More "Duck Song Duck" spoof videos coming soon!

The Duck Song duck is on a mission to get his grapes. He realizes that The Man at the local lemonade stand will never stock any grapes along side his ice cold refreshments, so The Duck has decides to take an adventure to where no duck has ever gone before: Outer Space, to see if he can find the legend of Planet Of The Grapes. He commandeers a newly built retro rocket space ship and blasts off into deep outer space in search of Planet Of The Grapes. Will he make it there? Will he die in space? Will he encounter any evil aliens on his trip? Will he finally complete his mission and attain some juicy grapes? Will he ever make it back to Earth? Stay tuned and watch to find out! For this Blender project, I was able to design a retro rocket space ship with the help of YouTube Daniel Grove Photo and his Retro Rocketship tutorial, and also YouTuber Alaskan FX, for his tutorial on Epic Rocket Engine Fire Effect. Then after building my own ship, I decided to incorporate The Duck into the video ,since it has been a while since I was able to spit out a Duck Song spoof video. I have a few more I've been working on, but just haven't yet pieced and of the together completely. Stay tuned, I shall be coming out with more Duck Song spoof videos, along with other Blender videos and more. Check out my other spoof Duck Song videos: https://youtu.be/JcSCsoFgBDc https://youtu.be/6-ZwpncQcuo https://youtu.be/GpjP2L3HElk https://youtu.be/tm0GQe-NoTk https://youtu.be/MmhuDQQVK5k https://youtu.be/K2qjhFxtO6k https://youtu.be/VTc0tDHgVYQ This video was completed on Friday, May 19th, 2023, in Blender 3.4.1 and iMovie. 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! More Blender tutorials to come! Thanks for stopping by!

Another Blender project, this time with dominos lined up out in some green grass, then begin to topple one by one. I added a bouncing ball in the center. I learned some physics settings and some collision settings with this creation, thanks to tutorials by "Blender Modeler" and "TLD Studios" on Youtube. I also learned how to create a semi-nice plot of grass. This video was created with Bender 3.4.1 and iMovie on Monday, May 8th, 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! More Blender tutorials to come! Thanks for stopping by!

Many new users who are just getting started are not familiar with lots of tricks you can do in Blender. Here I explain how to do one of the simple tricks that many might not know about. Create a quick pyramid without a hassle. This video was created using Blender 3.4.1 and iMovie. 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! More Blender tutorials to come! Thanks for stopping by!

LIVE! Exclusive Hot Item, The All New Tiny Bot! Join in on the LIVE STREAM and see what the excitement is all about! Hurry and order yours NOW before inventory and supplies run out! This is another Blender project that I've been working on. Instead of just giving you a short video of the robot I created, I thought I'd have a little fun and jazz it up a bit. So I created it simulating LIVE streaming event selling the Tiny Bot while people chimed in with comments on a live chat. In this project I ended up having 6 different emitters with lots of particles emitted. The Blender project took about 14 hours to render. Yeah, you could say I did go a little bit overboard. Credit: I have to give Youtube's Onlygoodsir credit for putting together his insightful and splendid tutorial on how to create this little robot. This video was created using Blender 3.4.1 and iMovie. 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!

In this tutorial I will show how you can take text and engrave it into an object in Blender. I took me a while to figure out how to do this, so I thought I'd make a tutorial on it to help out other Blender novices out there. And when I come across other cool features in Blender, I'll be back with another tutorial soon! This tutorial is done in Blender version 3.4.1, on May 2nd, 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 Iron Man Metallic Silver suit in 4K. A project I put together in Blender. This video was created using Blender version 3.4.1, on May 1st, 2023. Credit goes out to LLiypuk Sketchfab.com: Modeling by Harlow fx Model mark 85. The file also contains an energy refocuser, hammer hands, infinity gauntlet. 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!

Garden Bros Nuclear Circus: How mans Gone Wild set up their Big Top Tent at Oak Park Mail in Overland Park, Kansas. What a weird name, eh! Who knows? Maybe they’re going to explode a nuclear bomb during the show ! It was opened from Friday, April 28 through Sunday, April 30, 2023. 

Waves of radioactive waves from nuclear fallout ripples through the ocean. Another Blender creation. A simulation of glitter in programmed waves. This was created on Saturday, April 29th, 2023 using Blender version 3.4.1. 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!

Holy cow! Zeus can talk! 

A Blender project I put together after learning several new things in the application. Three arrays of cubes on Bézier curves with rotation animation baked in. Enjoy! Created with Blender 3.4.1 on April 25th, 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!

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.