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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.

1st Mattang Design Imported into Blender from Illustrator

Taz — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:00:30 +0000

After spending a lot of time this last week learning how to use blender (standby for some posts about some of the projects I’ve been working on) I have finally been able to import a file we did as vector graphics in Illustrator directly into Blender and use it’s wonderful capabilities to turn it into a 3D model. There are so many things we can do from this point with our designs and I’m just getting started in seeing what is possible.

These two pictures are almost identical except that one of them had the Mattang logo placed between the sun and the object to cast a shadow on it.