Here’s a quick tutorial on an HDR control node in Blender. The point is to be able to control the background intensity and the lighting separately. It also gives you the option of having separate background and lighting.
Testing out some of the features of Blender 2.79; Shadow catcher, Micro-displacement and Principled BSDF material.
Microdisplacement in Blender is an amazing feature. I Definitely need to get a GPU with more memory though.
Curtis Farnham (http://curtisfarnham.com/lego-spacex) has kindly put his Lego plans for a Falcon 9 on his website. A bit of LeoCad later and the model is in Blender. I wish I had all the Lego parts to actually make this.
Incidentally, I had to start learning Python to get this model working in Blender. Perhaps I’ll polish the code up and publish it here at a later date.
The Lego Thatcher Perkins Steam Engine from the late 1970’s. Original instructions here. More fiddling about in Blender and LeoCad.
It was great. It had gears, the engine had functional cylinders and a cam. The seats adjusted. I wish I had taken better care of all the Lego sets I had when I was young.
A bit of late-night / early morning experimentation and learning.
Same as before, but rendered for my wallpaper. Elon Musk image by the excellent @The_Red_Dress (Website)
Elon Musk image by the excellent @The_Red_Dress (Website)
A bit of fun with physics in Blender, made to amuse the Reddit Blender community
A Blender pre-visualisation of the KD ultra mini sub.
A Blender render of this glorious relic made from the “stolen” 3D scan.
Fiddling about with the new GPU-SSS capabilities of Blender 2.77 (pre-release) and 3D scans from 3Dscanstore.com
Testing out the GPU-SSS in Blender 2.77 pre-release 2
A sort of modern take on the Cornell box with my favourite shape, the interwoven sphere.
So, I’ve decided to do some 3D printing with Shapeways. Starting with basic shapes, I whipped this up in Blender. I think I want to make geometric jewellery. Now, what to make next?
Messing around with the tissue tools in Blender.
Visualisation of some e-cigarette drip tips made with Blender.
