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More Blender renders.  I'm still in the dark ages with the program - using 2.49b because I'm used to it.  I'm seeing some great stuff from 2.65 (and beyond), and I've dabbled with the post 2.5 releases, but haven't made the conversion yet.  Maybe this summer.

Oh, yeah... there's a complete site redesign coming up this summer, and a shift in the focus of the site to more of my art and writing.  I'll be posting more Blender work, as well as older (and new) short stories and possibly some chapters from the novel(s) I'm working on.

In the mean time, here are some renders of a work in progress.  I call him Brainey, and I'm intending him to be a part of the new logo for this site. 

Brainey is gonna cut ya!

Toon render

 

Some New Blender Tomfoolery...

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I've been playing around in Blender some more.  Here are two of my latest renders.  The eyeballs were the result of an EXCELLENT tutorial on wikibooks (http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro/Creating_Pixar-looking_eyes_in_Blender).  The Green Guy (for those of you who are unenlightened) is from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy book covers.  That one is a result of asking "I wonder if I can..."

Green Guy from H2G2

 

Pixar Eyes

Summer 2011 Update:  And my latest render... which is nothing more than a revision of the old greenguy from a different angle...

Greenguy Take 2

Now in Tattoo form!

Don't Panic Tattoo

 

 

Have a glass of Blender...

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I'm a bit impulsive.  A bit.  Sometimes.

Fine.  I'll admit:  I tend to get myself into a whole lot of shit because I'm "no" challenged.  People ask me to do things and I say "Sure!" before I even know what they're asking.  Now, if it's something I'm really interested in, I'm pretty likely to get myself over-committed before I'm even asked.

I just started learning Blender in January.  In February, I committed myself to teaching a class in 3D modeling for this fall - late August.

I'm an idiot.

Nevertheless, the commitment is there, and I can't NOT teach the class - I already have some kids signed up for it.  Which leaves me looking forward to a summer of not barbecuing, not relaxing with a cold beer in a lounge chair on my deck, and not playing video games until the wee hours of the morning.  Not that I do ANY of that.  I'm just saying, you know, if I WERE to think about doing any of that this summer, the opportunity is now irrevocably gone, and I'm looking forward to a summer of being tied to my laptop at a coffee shop or in my office trying to figure out UV mapping and whether I should try to learn about nodes.

Not that I mind learning this stuff - I'm completely geeked about it... it's just the obligation thing.  I don't want to HAVE to learn about Blender...

Anyway, as I sit around and pick out random stuff in my house to model, I thought I would share my latest uninteresting render:  a water glass.

(cheering).

Yep, you too can be audience to my summer of irrelevant renders as I try to learn the intricacies of Blender.

Aren't you lucky?

 

A glass.  On a (poorly rendered) marble table.

 

I'll get better scans later...

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O.K. - some snapshots of the Horror Series I've drawn.  Most of these are drawn from studio stills that were released by Universal Studios as publicity photos for the films in the 30s.

Here we go:

 

Child's blocks - Blender Rocks!

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This is my first Blender project - a render of some child's blocks for a student project where I work.  Still need a bit of touching up - lighting, textures...

Blocks

Update:

I modeled some crayons and had a student do a scribble for me so I could texture a piece of paper:

Blocks with crayons and desktop