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Snowflakes

Taz — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 04:44:13 +0000

Well it’s been a while since I posted anything here. Been too busy with work to spend time doing anything else. However, after making some paper snowflakes, I was inspired to try making a 3D one in Blender using the new Cycles renderer. Here are a couple of my tries.

Asteroid Animation

Taz — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 08:32:02 +0000

Andrew Price over at Blender Guru recently released a new tutorial on how to make a realistic looking asteroid using some really simple modifiers and simple tools. Some of the specific things he shows you are how to use displacement maps to generate rough terrain, how to apply a tiling texture, how to create a randomly generated particle field for debris and how to use the compositor to fine tune the appearance of the finished image.

Here is my finished result from my first try.

PS. Make sure to check it out at the 1080P resolution.

UPDATE:

I decided to try it again with more detail and some changes to the overall feel. The only thing I don’t like about it is the smaller rocks that fly into the main asteroid instead of bouncing off.

1st 3D Character 50% done

Taz — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 08:28:46 +0000

Well I’ve spent the last month going through a Tutorial (off and on) provided by BlenderCookie.com on how to use Blender 2.5. I’ve just finished the modeling section and am about to start with the Texturing/Materials section and then on to rigging and animation basics as well as creating hair.

Here’s what I have so far.

Truth Remains

Taz — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 11:10:43 +0000

Working on a logo for a band, here’s the concepts so far…

Dragon Head #2

Taz — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:42:23 +0000

Well it’s been a while since I posted, but I wanted to share the work in progress on something I’ve been wanting to do for quite a while. I’m working on modeling a 3D image of the Korean Turtle Ship and started with the Dragon Head. Here is my second try at it. I’ll probably go back and finish the first try some time but I’m quite happy with how this one came out.

Luxrender

Taz — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:20:30 +0000

Update 3: Here is a collage of 4 images built from the rendering I’ve had 6 computers working on now for 17.5 hours. Luxrender makes it really easy to use multiple computers for a task like this. I’m also posting the fullsize version of a 12 hour render of my first try.

Update 2: I remade the model after some trials with the first one and made the M to look like it is made from a sapphire. Here is a 1 minute render just to test the lighting. As I’m going to bed now, I have 6 computers in the house working together to render the same view with all options at max. I’m really looking forward to seeing what it will look like when complete.

Update: Here is another image made using LuxRender that took 5 hours.

After spending quite a bit of time using Blender, I decided to try one of the third party rendering engines compatible with it called Luxrender. I had tried to get it to work before, but had problems. Now with the real release version of Windows 7 on my main computer, everything has worked perfect so far and Luxrender installed without any errors. I decided to try it first on a model I’ve been working on for a new logo for the organization my brother works for called the Maslow Project. After I clicked the Render button, I was surprised at the first glance of what I saw, it was a VERY grainy image after about 30 seconds.

But then I did some reading about the program and I found out what it’s capable of. After a little big of time, I had my computer plus 4 other computers in the house all rendering the image After 5 hours 13 minutes, here is the final image.

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New Mattang Design

Taz — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:10:43 +0000

I decided to try making one of the designs we are having printed on some shirts in blender to see how it looks. I also decided to try different materials; metal, stone, leather, wood and beaten steel.

Mattang’s First Home

Taz — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:37:29 +0000

Well we have a great deal working out for us as we start off Mattang. My dad found some great warehouse space and got it to use as storage, but he decided to try to offload it as it’s too big for his needs. Combined with him though, it’s a great size for both his stuff and for Mattang to start. To work on the layout, I modeled the space using Blender Check out the layout.

Mattang Angel – The Reason I Started with Blender

Taz — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 12:47:15 +0000

I’ve made a few posts now about using Blender and I have to say I’m SOOOO glad I started using it. It’s taken my graphics capabilities to a whole new level. I thought I was doing pretty good with Photoshop, Illustrator, Lightroom, Flash, Fireworks and others, but now that I’ve started using Blender, it’s SOOOO much easier to create great looking pieces of art.

I’m still working on learning how to do animation and what to do with the 3D models after I create them. For a brief description of the differences, take for example the following drawing of my brother. He drew this as a concept for a piece of jewelery. I wanted to draw it on the computer but none of the programs I was using before could accurately handle the 3D part of the overlaying part of the Celtic knot in the middle.

I knew that in order to properly do this, I would need a 3D model. This is why I started looking for a good 3D program and found Blender. A month later (while participating in the biggest joint military exercise in the world and planning/conducting multiple rehearsals for a visit by the Secretary of the Navy which was canceled 3 hours before he was supposed to be here) I can finally say I have made the model of the drawing I started Blender for.

3D Modeling and Music Inspiration

Taz — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 12:21:25 +0000

I recently found some old files and ran across something that made me do a google search for Animusic. I was amazed with what I saw and I have to say I’m very inspired by what I’ve seen. Check it out.

This is the first one I saw, check out the rest of this post to see the others I was able to find on YouTube.