Halloween Pumpkin

 

A Halloween Pumpkin made in Blender.

Sugarcoated candy part 2

 

basket ball and sugar coated candy

 

A bit more Blender; 

First image is a simple model of a basket ball, looked a little into the UV tools in Blender for this. Played a little with Light and render.

Second image is a screen dump from a tutorial on geometry nodes I worked on. A little piece of sugar coated candy. Had some funky issues when trying to duplicate and make more pieces of candy - the new objects would only return around the world center. On top of that the light and camera setup was just...annoying.I might revisit this one for a proper render later on.

Learning Blender

I am trying to learn Blender...

With more than fifteen years of experience working in Maya the first thing I had to do was simply to overcome my frustration with the program itself. And that is not easy. Simple tasks that would be seconds or a couple of clicks in Maya can turn into several minutes finding the right button or short cut, figuring out what that function is named in this application and more often than not ending up searching for the solution on google or youtube. 

But I am getting there. I can feel that the worst irritation has left and so now it is just a matter of putting in the hours, getting a workflow up and running.

Here is the result of my first little "project" - a small beginner tutorial I found on youtube ( check out 3Dgreenhorns channel )

- a small isometric low poly style rendered bedroom -

 

Labyrinth

   Inspired by the cover art from the White Lies album "Friends" I tried to created this isometric looking    maze. Made in Illustrator with a little touch up in Photoshop along with some color variations.

Magnemite

After a couple of years hiatus I recently started playing Pokemon Go again. So when I wanted a little 3D project I decided to model one of these critters. As I wanted something simple I started out with Magnemite. I rendered out a bit of rim light as well and added a bit of glow and lightning in After Effects. Not sure if I am happy with the lightning - I think maybe they should be more stylized - but it'll have to do for now.

MASH

  A couple of geometry renders made with MASH in Maya. I found this tutorial by cgside on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMtyZy3vn08&t=7s

I tried adding more types of geometry boxes but felt like the image ended up more cluttered so in the end I kept the same three types as seen in the video.

Animated Geometric Pattern

- a little After Effects fun -

Illustrations Process

 

More discarded Illustrations - showing a bit of process; starting with the sketch - getting an idea of the design. Then the shapes where cleaned up in Illustrator and lastly texture and light was added in Photoshop.

 

Discarded cakes

 

Cake Illustrations from the last project I worked on. All of them had been OKed - then I took off for the summer. When I returned all my work had been scrapped.

Doesn't feel great but at least I can share the illustrations here.