Sep
19

Currently blending: small box house

By · on September 19, 2011 · Comments (6)

I have started on a new personal project just to practice all sorts of stuff I’ve learned during the past months. Also, my Blender gallery badly needs improvement.

It is a small house but I plan to add more detail and insert it in a nice “lake at dusk” scene.

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Sep
16

Currently blending: recycling bin

By · on September 16, 2011 · Comments (0)

I’m posting this just for the fun of it:

Sometimes weird projects throw themselves my way. A friend needed a nice image of a recycling bin so I thought I could easily model one for him.

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Sep
15

Bump and reflection artifact spotted

By · on September 15, 2011 · Comments (4)

The few past Blender releases have boasted some improved bump settings in the texture influence panel:

However, setting the Best Quality bump mapping for a material that gets reflected results in weird artifacts in the reflected image.

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Categories : Materials, Rendering
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Sep
14

Blending in the kitchen

By · on September 14, 2011 · Comments (0)

My own kitchen has seen a great deal of blending this year in the form of creamy soups or fruit puree but now I have put it into my computer Blender. I’m trying to decide on some extra shelving that we’llĀ  probably get from Ikea.

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Sep
06

Currently blending: elevator interior

By · on September 6, 2011 · Comments (3)

These days I’m busy with a set of presentation renderings for elevator interiors. More like product presentation than archviz but a good work&blending opportunity.

I was a bit worried about managing this in Blender internal because I have never tried this kind of close-up detailed shiny image.
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