Jun
19

Flying in space

By · on June 19, 2011 · Comments (0)

Today I discovered “Fly navigation” in the view menu. Shortcut Shift+F. This is also my first screencast test so if you are not fond of long pointless amateur mute screencasts you might want to skip this.

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Categories : Interface, Workflow
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Jun
15

Sketching with the Grease pencil

By · on June 15, 2011 · Comments (2)

As before I was sidetracked. I am preparing a simple post on the solidify modifier (have been for two weeks..) and was trying to create a simple building to use as an example, kind of generic but more interesting than a cube, with nice openings. What came out was not looking right and I thought I should get some paper to sketch a proper composition. But I felt lazy and had misplaced my pencil. Then I got the idea to try and use the grease pencil instead. Of course it was much more fun 🙂

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Jun
14

Blog stuff – comments fixed

By · on June 14, 2011 · Comments (0)

Something was wrong with adding comments, I changed the CAPTCHA thingy and it seems to work now.
I hope this was the only reason no one wrote anything anymore 🙁
Sorry for the annoyance!

Categories : Just talking
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Jun
13

Importing architectural models from Google model warehouse

By · on June 13, 2011 · Comments (1)

It’s funny how I sometimes start doing something that gets me somewhere totally different. I was looking for online reference for a project – I plan to model a  building from Bucharest from the 30’s – and was expecting to find scans from architectural school books when google brought up a 3d warehouse model of that building, .

3dWH

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Categories : Imports, Modeling
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Jun
10

Completed project – kitchen

By · on June 10, 2011 · Comments (5)

Here it is, rendered with Blender Internal, mostly modelled by me. Apples are from Blogoscopia, books from Archibase.

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Kitchen interior – practice render from photograph. Source:  Dwell magazine & remodelista.

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