We’ve just added a new sailboat design to the picture mixer. You can place a picture or text on one of its sails. It is a little awkward to use, so we’ll be tweaking it from time to time. Enjoy!

Images placed on the flag animation are no longer be stretched out along the flag. So squares stay square. If you want to fill the whole flag, just press the “zoom in” button as much as you need to.

Some fixes to small “bugs” in some picture mixer designs:

• The wine bottles design now actually has the correct transformation for images onto the space where the wine bottle labels are.
• The photo museum design no longer repeats the image if it doesn’t quite fit in the space provided.

Thanks for all those who reported these problems. One remaining issue we need to fix is the aspect ratio of images projected onto the flying flag. This would probably be easy to fix for a Blender expert, but we’re just feeling our way.

The flying flag design has been featured on the generator blog today. Thanks Gerard! Other fun links on the generator blog today: makemebabies.com, for making a wild guess at what the baby of two parents would look like, and the lazy blogger post generator, which creates gems like this:

OMG! I just got a bajillion whiny emails saying I have not updated this since Hammertime was in the charts… You would not believe the amount of people that are totally stalking me. I prostrate myself in sorrow and beg thy forgiveness..

I am absolutely consumed with setting fire to people wearing Crocs, learning to speak Japanese, just generally being an embarrassment to society in general, my day is filled with fluorescent light from the second I am woken by murderous Teletubbies to I run out of alcohol. I am not being a whinging Pom or anything. as well you should know.

I swear on the bones of my ancestors I will try to remember my blog password more often in future. Truly! This is for my ever faithful, devoted public..

Looks like our site is in good company. Well, company.

Manias de Geek has just written a better tutorial for the picture mixer than we have on our own site. Welcome Portuguese-speakers!

Since our shoulder tattoo picture mixer design was getting some interest, we’ve added a more powerful back tattoo design. It looks like this:

You can move your tattoo around the body and scale it as you like. Just prepare it as a “png” image with transparency, upload it, then work on placement. This way, you can get an idea of how the tattoo might look on you.

The body in the design is from the excellent makehuman project.

There’s a new Book Design added to the picture mixer. It lets you put a custom front and back on a 3D book model. If you want, you can animate the book flipping from a view of the front to a view of the back, and tell a little picture story that way - just hit the “make animation” button. Remember that after you make an animation, you can adjust its timing. It is often good to add a longish pause between the end of the animation and when it starts over again, so as not to make it too overwhelming visually.

Ever wondered what your face would look like fluttering on flags across the nation? I know I have.

MakeSweet is proud to announce the latest in our line of 3D generators, our fluttering flag:

Yet another picture manipulation design, the shoulder-tattoo design: paste a picture or text onto a shoulder as a tattoo. The picture can either contain transparency, or alternatively brighter colors will be interpreted as more transparent. A silly example:

Announcing two new 3D blends: billboards and wine bottles. An example of what you can do:

For the wine bottle design, you have control of what appears on the label of the bottles.