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sml, 21 days ago to blender

Finding Suzanne

My submission to the monthly render challenge on the Blender discord server, the topic this time was Deep Blue.

#Blender #B3D

sml, 2 months ago to blender

After dipping my toes into landscape rendering, lets go back to space for now.

The crew of our jump ship (which looks only slightly phallic) found a potentially habitable planet. But here's the twist, it is tidally locked. There is only a thin band around the shadow terminator that could harbor life.

The planet is 100% procedurally generated with nodes as a background shader, so it automatically doubles as indirect light from belong.

#Blender #B3D #SciFi #Spaceship #Astrodon

Side view of the spaceship, zoomed in so that the background is compressed and only a bit of terrain is visible in the background.
The spaceship from the bottom, against a starry sky. An orange lens flare can be seen on the bottom right.
The spaceship from behind, revealing two rows of conventional engine drives. The surface in the background is bright, contrasting with the silhouette of the spaceship.

sml, 2 months ago to blender

A bit of a different #blender project from me: abandoned train tracks.

The tracks are created with a simple geometry nodes setup, and the botaniq asset pack was a live saver for the plants in this one. The log is from Polyhaven. Maybe I'll play around with nature scenes more often from now on.

#B3D

A close up shot of one of the rotten tree logs with shallow depth of field. The train tracks can be seen glowing in the sun in the background.
A close to the ground shot centered on one of the rails, focusing on a single red butterfly that sits on the rail.

sml, 3 months ago to genart

I could watch pen plotters all day.

#GenerativeArt #PenPlotter #PlotterArt

Close up bideo of a pen plotter using a black gel pen to draw nested squares onto a a white paper. The squares form a larger grid of many squares.

sml, 4 months ago to diy

#DIY fix for an overheating #VR headset: I stuck a heat sink on it and created a custom front cover in #Blender to allow the trapped heat to escape. The print came out a big ugly, but as long as it works...

I really don't get why the HP engineers decided not to include any kind of heat dissipation mechanism for this otherwise great headset.

#3Dprinting #B3D

The VR headset with the front cover removed, revealing its mainboard and a big metal protective plate over the CPU area.
A black heat sink is now attached to the CPU plating to help dissipate the heat.
The VR headset with a custom 3D printed front cover screwed onto it. The new cover reveals the insides of the headset through various symmetric openings.

sml, 4 months ago to blender

#Blender evening project: a point cloud galaxy generator in #GeometryNodes. This is around 1.5 million points total, rendered in under a minute.
The key to getting the different colors and opacities was to layer different "galaxies" together, each with a different material applied.
@gleb you might enjoy this.

#B3D #Astrodon #Galaxy

A Blender viewport screenshot of the grey point cloud that creates the galaxy shape.

astro_jcm, 5 months ago to Soundtracks

Listening to the #Dune #soundtrack for the Nth time while working on a talk, and it feels as evocative, engulfing and atmospheric as the first time.

I genuinely don't get people who say Zimmer doesn't have range. If The Lion King, Gladiator, Pirates of the Caribbean or The Dark Knight trilogy – just to name a handful of famous scores from his massive discography – all sound the same to you, you might wanna get your hearing checked...

#music #movies #cinema

sml, 5 months ago to vr

This is a pretty impressive demo of #Liftoff using the Quest 3's new AR capabilities. It basically allows you to fly a virtual drone in your own house.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4naybd555M

#MetaQuest3 #VR #AR #Drone

sml, 5 months ago to blender

Colloquially called the Hell Hole (because of its orange glow), this portal connects Earth with TRAPPIST-1e, a planet that orbits a red dwarf star 40.7 light years away.

To sustain its second largest interstellar colony, humanity needs to send vast quantities of raw materials to TRAPPIST-1e. Today's shipment includes several kilotons of copper, nickel and refined aluminum, but also medical items and plush teddy bears.

#B3D #Blender #SciFi #Astrodon

A 3D animation of a large grey hollow cylinder, slowly rotating in low orbit. In the background, a hazy atmosphere and faint clouds and earth terrain can be seen. Small dots of cargo containers float in an irregular line towards and through the cylinder which emits a faint orange glow from the inside.

sml, 6 months ago to blender

I've done a little #Blender thing again, inspired by one of @Kaiern​s recent renders. It started out with a random #GeometryNodes shape doodle and turned into something bigger.

A herdsman found this artifact in the Bolivian highlands. It appears to defy gravity, but otherwise it is inert. Spectroscopy analysis did not match any currently known material. However it emits a short modulated radio wave pulse every night that seems to be directed at Ross 248.

#B3D #SciFi

A different view at the camp, with a tent in the foreground, and most of the rest of the camp hidden in fog. The artifact shows long lines of glowing orange cracks from this side.
An upwards view at the artifact between two containers and hanging cables. The black surface reflects some of the floodlights.
A grey clay render of the Blender scene, with the wavy artifact floating above the various scattered camp objects. Patches of short grass cover the ground.

fell, 6 months ago to gamedev

Texture Artists! How would you go about turning this photo I took into an evenly lit texture? It doesn't need to be tileable.

I know I can stretch it to be nice and straight, but then, how could I make the light more even? Is that even possible?

I know there are plenty of good (and probably free) wood textures, but for my project, I want everything to be handmade from scratch. I want to try at least. Either procedural, or from a photo like this.

#GameDev #GameDevelopment #Texture #Art #Photography #Krita #OpenSource #Handmade #MastoArt #AskMastoArt #AskFedi #Blender #GodotEngine #Godot

sml, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to blender

Here's my entry for #Nodevember2023, topic "Lovely Lake".

The trees are point clouds generated with #GeometryNodes, the materials are simple shader nodes, for the HDRI I used the Procedural Starlight addon, and post-processing is all done with compositor nodes.

#Nodevember #Blender #B3D

genista, 6 months ago to random German

Über was man so alles stolpert ...
@eichkat3r

sml, 7 months ago to blender German

Hmm weiß noch nicht so recht, sieht irgendwie cursed aus, was meinst du? @eichkat3r

Könnte man jetzt natürlich noch riggen und fan fiction mit machen...

#Blender

3D Render des Eichkaters als graue Skulptur mit dunkelbraunen Augen und stilisierten schwarzen Augenbrauen und Oberlippe, aufgenommen frontal aus einer tieferen Perspektive.

jwildeboer, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to random

No, it’s not a spaceship. It’s a #Mamiya RZ67 Medium Format Camera with a „low” cost digital back :) Yes, after many years I finally received it and managed to mount it in a working way.

(It’s the digital back from https://imback.eu in case you wonder)

astro_jcm, 7 months ago to Ravens

I think they're scheming something... 🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛

Also, I always get #ravens and #crows mixed up. What #birds are these?

sml, 8 months ago to blender

Evening project: a space tube thingy.

(Its actually just a squashed cylinder and random details)

#Blender #B3D #SciFi

sml, 8 months ago to Leica

#Leica launched a titanium body 50mm f0.95 lens... for $17,000! And of course its a full-manual lens.

For that money you could also buy:

• 2.8kg of cocaine in Bolivia (source: Statista)
• 938 crates of Bitburger Pils
• 72 lenses from 7Artisans, also being manual 50mm f0.95
• over 1000 doses of covid vaccine
• a car (probably, i don't know, I'm not into cars)

https://petapixel.com/2023/09/14/leicas-noctilux-m-50mm-f-0-95-titan-lens-is-the-priciest-50mm-prime/

sml, 9 months ago to random

So the #Fairphone5 was released today.

What we get: 6.5" 90Hz OLED display, 5G, better™ dual cameras with one ultrawide lens, 8GB RAM and 256GB storage, 8 years of software updates (using an extended life chipset from Qualcomm), 4200mAh battery and mostly recycled/fairtraded resources and supply chains.

What we don't get: headphone jack, a small phone, a cheap phone (its 699€), downwards compatible modules.

But: you can also get it with /e/OS from @murena

#Fairphone

https://shop.fairphone.com/fairphone-5

jwildeboer, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago) to random

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sml, 9 months ago to blender

@gleb Turns out it's easier to create a #nebula in #GeometryNodes than with volumes (at least for my meager RTX2070). Geonodes have the advantage that you can simply create the tendrils with curves, twist the curves and then displace particles on these curves.

#Blender #B3D #Astrodon