In this Blender Video tutorial, I go over creating a plate/saucer, and then a paper cupcake wrapper, followed by the modeling of the cupcake itself. We then jump into creating textures for each, and I show you how to create a nice spongey/bread-like texture using volumetric materials. Then we go on to create the frosting for the cupcake, and we begin creating a nice composition with multiple cupcakes, and a bite-mark out of the main one, as well as scattered crumbs (using the particle hair “object” settings). Finally we use Jonathan’s technique of adding a depth of field to focus on the cupcake in the foreground.
Special thanks to Ben Dansie for his helpful insight into the volumetric materials. http://www.bendansie.com/.
OH, and since it is our 1 year birthday, this one is on the house with no Citizen membership required. Download includes high resolution video, and .blend file. Thank you for an amazing first year of this ride and looking forward to the next.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BLENDER COOKIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BLENDER COOKIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YEs Happy Birthday!
YEs Happy Birthday!
Congrats BC!
It has been one hell of a ride this first year, and I learned a lot from the tutorials.
Hey! After the guts tutorial that’s quite a boon
Congrats and thanks!
Happy Birthday Blender Cookie !!!!
Dave, you forgot to put a candle on the cake !!
Thanks a lot for all the great stuff here.
In only one year you have become the no 1 resource for learning Blender! Keep up the good work!
i noticed that you painted with hair on a plane.
can someoen update the painted flowers tutorial for 2.5?
Congrats guys, looking back on what you have achieved in a year is very impressive. Can’t wait to see what the 2nd year has in store.
+1 (and +1 year also
Happy birthday BC! Thank you so much for the excellent food you give us all the whole year.
happy birthday to you! happy birthday to you! happy birthday to Blender Cookie! happy birthday to you! happy birthday Blender Cookie!
So mature for a 1 year old.
Happy birthday, thanks cookie!
Happy birthday and thanks you so much for everything you do for us
Happy birthday, BlenderCookie!
Wow… One year already! Happy Birthday Blender Cookie!!! Thanks for all the “munching” education, you all are awesome!!!
Great tutorial!!
I am glad that Ive just signed up as a citizen, you guys are really great! Happy one year birthday!
Wow – some insight into volume materials – downloading now!
Happy birthday B.C.
I’ve learned a lot from you.
Thanks loads!
Happy birthday and thanks for everything !!!!
happy birthday guys, thanks much for a great website, great resources, and great tutorials
Congratulations! And thanks for al the tutoials! I learned a lot from you guys in the last year. especialy the human modelling (face, hand etc) tutorials. Keep up the good work!
Happy Birthday Blendercookie!
Thanks for all the tutorials, they helped me a lot
Hopefully the next year will be at least as good as these
Happy Birthday.
Happy Birthday! What a great year it has been. Thanks and here’s to many more successful years to come.
Its my friends birthday today and i told him i’d make a birthday cake in blender for him…. freaky much…XD
Happy Birthday!
Blender Cookie
Where’s the Milk and Cookies?
Lol,but seriously it has been a most educational and fun year I personally can not wait for year two.
Once again here’s wishing you a Happy Birthday and many more……
nevbms
And many more years to come! =)
HAPPY B’DAY!
Felicidades por el primer año!!!
Happy birthday … BlenderCookie!
You meet many more …. : D, and success …
I love this site, this well-constructed, beautiful, etc. …!!!
Thanks for all these tutorials that have been of great help: D.
Happy birthday BC!!! With such a good starting year, one can only imagine wonders to come…!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BLENDER COOKIE![2]
Amazing this first year!
This great site is the most important Blender tutorials on the web.
Thank you BC’s staff for sharing your knowledge to all fans of Blender.
Greetings from Colombia.
Your effort and work is amazing guys, keep it up!
LONG LIVE BLENDERCOOKIE!
Just watching the tut. About the shadows: softness will only work if you increase the number of samples too. Just increasing the samples will already give softer shadows without increasing the softness value itself. Usually you need a lot more samples than softness value to avoid jitter. With the softness of 1 you should probably start with 5 samples to get a smooth result. As you increase the softness itself you will need more samples too, to get really smooth results.
cool, thanks for the info
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BLENDER COOKIE! AND TANKS FOR HELPING ME TO TEACH HOW TO USE BLENDER.
GREETINGS FROM SERBIA.
Nice Tutorial, again…….
About the issue with that rare line that appears between cake and frosting… there isn’t an volumetric bug, I try it with a normal material and still there…. It’s more like a intersection issue, puting the sculpt mesh more inside of the cake mesh, the line is gone.
thanks again!!!
Ahhh….
PD: Sorry about my english.
. . . This has only been going on for a year? With the amount of tutorials, it seems like so much longer. lol
HaPpY bIrThDaY bLeNdEr CoOkIe!
happy b-day
i am a citizen
Sweet Genius! This is awesome! You guys rock!
Happy Birthday Blender Cookie! Party Hearty!
Happy Birthday Blender Cookie
I remember back in the CG Cookie days. Those were better times.
Wow, looking at all the great tutorials that are up I’d never have guessed it had only been one year.
Another great tut and I look forward to many more this year!
Happy Birthday!
Thank you so much BlenderCookie, I turned 22 today!!
happy b-day and more b-day to come
Congratulations BlenderCookie!
This is the best point to learn English. Here the teachers consider since the amateurs until experts to make their tutorials.
One year full of well done tutorials!
I know how many time we spend to do one tutorial and these guys are the best on it!
Jonathan, David, Kernon and all your team continue doing your best to transform Blender 3D in the best tool of this CG segment.
Thank you!
Tio Ilmo
Happy 1st year
Happy Birthday Blender Cookie!! Thank you for the great tutorials!!
Happy B-Day guys. You’re really awesome.
Happy birthday. I’m really impressed with the pace you are releasing tutorials. Keep up the good work!
Hi,Happy birthday
My happy sentiments for cg cookie are here in this link,
http://haqzaf.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d317f9e
Thanks to David Ward.
Three glasses.
One for owner of this site.
One for David Ward
One for Jonathan Williamson
Bottle label downloaded from flickr.
Background is downloaded from internet.
Candle flame simulation not yet complete.Need to use IPO editor.
Glass material not yet finished.
sweet setup, nice to see “student work”
I share my birthday with blendercookie!! yay birthday kid/entity, even if it’s a day late now.
Hi!
I had the same problem with edges of objects. Problem is with the antialiasing, you should set it to “Full Sample”.
In still images that helps, but animations look weird. I hope blender will improve this, because full sampling is slower.. it just should work with normal antialiasing. When using z-transp, this is a problem too..
@ David Warp: i would really like some tutorials about using Duplication in blender 2.5:
# DupliFaces
# DupliFrames
# DupliGroup
# DupliVerts
this would be very cool
Jonathan, David, Kernon and the rest of the Blender Cookie team, thank you so much for all the great tutorials from last year. The resource and expertise you provide to the Blender community is very generous. Sorry for the late post on the thread, but an anniversary is an anniversary. So I came out of the lurk and learn shadows to say congrats on one year! I have learned so much from you all.
Best regards–
/cie
Thank you very much and welcome out of the shadows.
Have a great rest of the weekend.
Wes
Happy anniversary and thanks for all the great tutorials! Always top notch and easy to understand, worth every penny.
Happy birthday for one year of great tutorials
Hi,
Happy birthday CG Cookie.com
I kept working on my previously submitted modeling mesh.
Here is my link:
http://haqzaf.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d31fq5w
1.Candle flame is now visible
2.Glass material applied
3.Wine liquid created.
4.Candle body wax with new material with sss effect.
After research and reading different tutorials online.I found approx four different techniques to create candle flame.
I, followed one of the method.
1.Search candle flame image with dark background (google image search).In paint program,remove any wick part by healing
brush.Keep the black background and flame as is.
2.Next on your right of paint program navigator window where your flame image icon layer window,Click channels tab next to layer tab.Create new channel below RGB,R,G,B channels.Copy the flame.tga flame image “ctrl+C” Paste it into channel you created by “ctrl+V”.Now you have a alpha channel with flame(rename it alpha).
3″Ctrl+Click” this alpha channel flame to extract the flame content without dark background.
4. your original flame.tga is single layer colored image with black background.
5.Create a new layer above this
6.paste “ctrl+V” the content in this channel.Flame without background.only colored flame in this layer.
7. save these two layer as tagra format 24 bits/pixel.Your saved image contain flame with alpha channel saved as tagra format
8.In Blender 2.54,I created a plane mesh above the candle wick.size of mesh is approax to flame size.
9.UV mapped this plane.
10.New material applied to plane mesh.
11.Activate Transparency tab,Transparency drop down,click Z-Transparency.”Alpha” slider to 0.00
12.further down In shadow tab drop down,Receive check marked.other three unchecked.
13.In texture tab,new texture selected.In the cloud drop down,click on image/movie.Click the Image tab file folder icon,
Located the save flame Tagra, flame Image and brought in as texture.
14.Click Mapping tab.In coordinated drop down,select UV.
15.Click Influence drop down,Diffuse channel,check mark Alpha value 1.00,below Diffuse/Color/1.00
16.In “Image Sampling” drop down,unclick “Alpha Use”.It completes the material texture part of flame with alpha transparency mask.
17.In texture Preview window,you will observe,several flame images with transparent blackground.
18.Just Below preview window,tick mark “Show Alpha”.
19.Internal Renderer,Will produce result as observed in my image.
Thanks
A tut on how to create a candle in Blender 2.5 should soon be online at cg tuts+:
http://cg.tutsplus.com/tutorials/blender/3d_cg_blender_storage_backup_archive_smoke_dynamics_fluid_simulation/
Happy birthday!
Having trouble with the volumetrics. I can not get the brown color to come through other than barely.
it was to hard –you kept jumping to what you could have done so i lost the linearity of the tutorial–dont feel bad as most people do the same–my suggestion is cut back on the talk and go specifically into the steps–dont go from point a to pluto and then back to a
thanks for all your work and i do appreciate it–please understand that this is my third attempt–spent about 1 hour on it and just gave up ( there was very little signal and most was noise)–this also is my first real complaint on a tutorial
Hello!, happy birthday I’m from Brazil, looked at the title of your tutorial “Happy Birthday! – Cupcakes on the house!”, and its rendered image and decided to make a similar scene.
Now see if you like: http://tiny.cc/g3w40
Hi Guys,
First of all great tutorial unfortunately I’ve been having trouble on the icing section which is the beginning of the second video.
After adding the circle and moving it to the top of the cupcake, going into edit mode and selecting everything using edge mode and deselecting the outer edges, then subdividing to 7, I then apply the shrinkwrap which works fine except when I go into edit mode and instead of getting the outline mesh for the shrinkwrapped icing, I still get the circle mesh prior to shrinkwrap being applied.
I therefore cannot extrude to get the thickness I need for the icing, I cannot for the life of me find out what’s causing this.
Please help.
Below is a link to a screenshot.
http://yfrog.com/jccupcakeproblemj
Thanks guys.
Very delicious tutorial.Thanx for sharing with us.
Great thanks, I’m stuck on the sculpt brushes, do I have to go through a how to design a brush or can I get the ones you use. I am working on a Itunes music video and I am crashing through blender to put this together. Making my own brushes will take some time. Thanks for all you folks that make Blender possible. I used a video toaster lightwave program and 3d max Ithought it would be alone time before I could get into this again. You and blender are off the hook. I’m using the 2.60 on a macbook pro.
Very tasty.
My cupcakes: http://blenderw.blogspot.com/2011/11/magdalenas-para-nuestra-silueta.html