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Just wanted to say the awards show this year was really amazing, definitely a highlight to my year
outstanding job on the improvements to the client too

Well done to all the entries and winners    , what a super selection this  year!

hi retro wolf,
I dont use any addons as such apart from a couple of blender proprietary ones like the spiral addon that expands the types of spiral curves you can create, which I have got a lot of use / fun out of,  then i also installed the bool tools addon and i think thats pretty much it

[https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/mushroom-magic-night-a1afc8a3ebc74648965127cac2da5349?autospin=0.15]

https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/mushroom-magic-night-a1afc8a3ebc74648965127cac2da5349?autospin=0.15

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/aGG3ok

how are things slasher? deepest sympathies and your dads passing, although you can't see him, he lives on in you and will always be with you.
there will be tough days ahead, and just when you think your right, a thought, a memory, an occasion, an object,  a date comes along and will set you back a step, but whatever your feeling now  it WILL get better and keep getting better as time goes on.

[https://sketchfab.com/Tycho_Magnetic_Anomaly/models]

https://sketchfab.com/Tycho_Magnetic_Anomaly/models

[https://skfb.ly/opVWo]

Nice Work KyriakosCH, would love to see some of your buildings in a little higher resolution   but i know/assume they are intended for a specific resolution for a game

Well I have been following ToxicTuba's / selmiak's work closly for a while now and his latest things are truly outstanding, I also remarked on how the latest work (the moody stairwell accent) is one of my faves so far.
And since you posted I may as well take the opportunity to say toxictuba has been one of the biggest inspirations and encouraging factors for me to try experiment with these sorts of abstract visuals/motion graphics, I might even go as far to say if it was not for him and another person I also admire for his abstract visuals I may never have considered trying it myself at all. So  huge thank you to selmiak/toxic tuba!

And speaking of which, I had not posted in a while since I honestly thought the thread had died a bit, but am delighted to see both KyriakosCH and Toxictuba show off their latest awesome creations.
So I have a bit of a backlog with regards posting on the forum here, I will  use smaller pictures and fonts this time as not to so spam the whole page

Dont Forget you can fully explore all my things live over on Sketchfab by clicking the link below each link,  viewing them live is how they were intended to be viewed, so feel free to explore around with your mouse/zoom in out, etc
And as ever, all my things are best viewed on fullscreen,  as the temporal AA on sketchfab dose not do very well when viewing in a window.
Some of them will require a decent pc or graphics card to view optimally.
Some are experiments on how to get around the limitations in Sketchfab such as the inability to animate lights, animate textures/materials , inability to animate camera and other factors
Some have an issue with looping (in particular the ones that run for a longer time) with a slight pause/glitch at the end / start of the loops.

Anyhoo, here is my latest things since i posted here last....

Planck Flux

https://skfb.ly/opVWo


Cyber Cubes

https://skfb.ly/opWqr


Cosmic Koi

https://skfb.ly/opXQA


Pulsating Peapods

https://skfb.ly/opXVr


Spectral Bioluminescence

https://skfb.ly/opZMC


Locked Loaded

https://skfb.ly/o7sJn


Modular Matrix

https://skfb.ly/o76K6


Kaleidoscopic Perception

https://skfb.ly/o7pnH


Phoenix Egg

https://skfb.ly/o7ppX


Ethereal Cones

https://skfb.ly/o7psD


Entangled Tori

https://skfb.ly/o7pxs


Moonray Logo

https://skfb.ly/o7qyU


Iced Glownuts

https://skfb.ly/o7rER


[He] 2s²2p⁶ Fluorescence

https://skfb.ly/o78qS


Fibonacci Flux

https://skfb.ly/o7sIN


Dark Star

https://skfb.ly/o7tyN


Eighties Vision

https://skfb.ly/o7uY7


Plasmatic Vortices

https://skfb.ly/o7uYq


Entangled Spirals

https://skfb.ly/o7uYr


Twisty Spiroknots

https://skfb.ly/o7uY8


Incandescent Helix

https://skfb.ly/o7vtM


Luminous Chromascape

https://skfb.ly/o7vCQ


Twisty Orbs

https://skfb.ly/o7E6s


Disco Tech

https://skfb.ly/o7Erp


Cyber Orb

https://skfb.ly/o7F7A


apologies for the spam again   I tried to make them as compact as possible on the forum page,   enjoy!

[https://skfb.ly/opT6y]

o oh... here i come again!


Cellular Pulse


You Can Fully Explore This Model Live Over on Sketchfab
https://skfb.ly/opT6y



Spectral Rings


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https://skfb.ly/opT6A



Wave Function


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https://skfb.ly/opT6T



Liquid Crystals


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https://skfb.ly/opTzH



Geode Doughnut


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https://skfb.ly/opTZB



Wormhole Spores


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https://skfb.ly/opUrJ



Particles Cubed


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https://skfb.ly/opUPD



Infinity Loop


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https://skfb.ly/opUMu



Emerald Oscillations


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https://skfb.ly/opVqP



Spectral Circles


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https://skfb.ly/opVrq



Ethereal Serpents


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https://skfb.ly/opVyP




all best viewed in full screen

[https://skfb.ly/opOrP]

 o ohh,  , here i come again with another dump


Crystalline Fracture


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https://skfb.ly/opOrP



Crystalline Fracture II


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https://skfb.ly/opOs7



Ethereal Orb


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https://skfb.ly/opOCV



Cyclonic Entanglement


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https://skfb.ly/opPw6



Cage Shift


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https://skfb.ly/opPHx



Pearl Electron


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https://skfb.ly/opPYs


all best viewed in full screen


thanks cass,   would love to see you post some of what you've been up to in blender

[https://skfb.ly/opJqN]

Dark Matter


You Can Fully Explore This Model Live Over on Sketchfab
https://skfb.ly/opJqN


best viewed in full screen


Thankyou Ali, they are really fun to make,  I might have a bash at trying to sell them on sketchfab soon.
I have not tried doing anything 2D in blender at all, still very much learning the basics. And I have not used the grease pencil thing at all,  it looks cool though.

[https://skfb.ly/opApn]

Quantum Ring


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https://skfb.ly/opApn



Torus Entanglement


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https://skfb.ly/opDXT



Ethereal Orbits


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https://skfb.ly/opECr



I Love Sketchfab


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https://skfb.ly/opFvW



Square Shift


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https://skfb.ly/opFWt



Cellular Cnidaria


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https://skfb.ly/opG7B



Tycho Magnetic Flux


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https://skfb.ly/opGxv



all best viewed in full screen

[https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/spectral-triangle-55437c96f550427b8bdaea77592e8d25]

You Can Fully Explore This Model Live Over on Sketchfab
https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/spectral-triangle-55437c96f550427b8bdaea77592e8d25




You Can Fully Explore This Model Live Over on Sketchfab
https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/quantum-cube-02971982b92347d4b6ddbe1c0d6487c5



Spectral Triangle and Quantum Cube , two experimental animated loops,, best viewed in full screen

[https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/cyber-core-d30920ccf2f440fa9586a656ac0f6bee]

You Can Fully Explore This Model Live Over on Sketchfab
https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/cyber-core-d30920ccf2f440fa9586a656ac0f6bee




You Can Fully Explore This Model Live Over on Sketchfab
https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/mystic-orb-3005e6f96ddf47cea205bc7c6a2e6f51



Cyber Core and Mystic Orb , two experimental animated loops,, best viewed in full screen

[https://skfb.ly/opxoZ]

You Can Fully Explore This Model Live Over on Sketchfab
https://skfb.ly/opxoZ

"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." – Carl Sagan

This is my entry for the Treasure Chest Contest https://sketchfab.com/blogs/community/sketchfab-august-challenge-treasure-chest/

Can anyone find a way to unlock this chest?

Please post a comment if you find a way to unlock the chest, To find the way, everything you need to know is before you and inside you.

I had intended to timelapse this whole project, but kept forgetting to activate my timelapse recorder, but here is a short video showing the making of the galaxy itself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZk6F8heiTU




thanks cass

thanks so much mouth of war  

I have decided to enter this contest here:
https://sketchfab.com/blogs/community/sketchfab-august-challenge-treasure-chest/

Would love to see a few from ags enter too, though bare in mind it has to be presented on sketchfab and not a regular blender render or whatever.

[https://skfb.ly/opsEY]

Thanks cass,  and yes there is a full blown video editor integrated into blender, its pretty good too

cass, blender is certainly one of those things you forget how to use if you don't use it regularly, I had not done much with blender since early january , and the last project took me a while to relearn things i knew only a few months ago

speaking of my last project, the pill thing,  well i made a whole bunch of changes to it . . .

Tweaked the physical lights to make the bevel on the edge of the left (pink) side of the pill more prominent when viewed all around,

Separated the 2099 letters and rotated each one slightly to imply they are floating/suspended in liquid as before it looked a but too rigid

Reduced the CA and BLOOM ever so slightly to reduce that heavy blurring but not so much i loose the feel i was looking for.

Increased the refraction a bit to make the bubbles warp more at the walls of the pill, made the barcode on back glow more to fit in more with the cyberpunk feel

Moved one of the lights directly into the pill, when i first put those particles into the pill i forgot to apply shade smooth in blender before copying them so many times, i noticed in sketchfab when viewing in certain angles some of the bigger particles sparkled a bit because of the hard faces, i wanted to try exaggerate this unintentional effect so i moved a light inside and tweaked a few other settings and now all the particles give off this delightful iridescent magical sparkles , if you zoom in close its more prominent

Added logos to the back of the pill

Fixed some blocky shading near the end of the pink part of the pill with shadow bias tweaks

I thought everything looked a bit to smooth/clear , so i created a normal and spec map and applied this to the pink part of the pill to give it some texture, roughness , as at this scale zoomed in so much you might expect to see some of these features, also i was trying to get a sense of it being a street drug so it might have been in someones pocket or changed hands many times so picked up some tiny scratches etc,

anyway i also wanted to give the clear plasticy/glassy part some texture and make it more frosty looking, but not too much so i distort the inside features too much, so i tweaked a bit with normal's and spec/clear coat with the textures i prepared.

https://skfb.ly/opsEY

Anyhoo I am done with this one now, it was fun playing around with it.



and everyone else i found this awesome link please check it out
C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender x.xx\blender.exe
now lets start posting stuff you lot!

[https://skfb.ly/opsEY]

You Can Explore This Model Live Over on Sketchfab
https://skfb.ly/opsEY


A concept logo idea for the in development game Vigilance 2099 This logo is not official and is only a fan made concept

The game project this logo pertains to is. https://www.vigilance2099.com/


Now come where is all your blenders?   

lets get a move on now. . .

ah yes i remember now thanks.

Also well done again on the tree and car mouth of war
Hey a suggestion on the car might be to make it in the style of those er, 50/60s cartoons?  so make the whiles tiny tiny,  make the car slightly less in with and scale the top half/cabin part of the car up,  exaggerating these features i think will give that 50s/60s style

i am sorry i missed this one, dammit

Ah, yes I did find/activate that after all,  I got de-ja-vue while looking at it, so I think i may have tried this before on a previous version of blender or something, just totally forgot about it. Sweet

It is funny you mention the video editor as I only really properly introduced myself to blenders video editor for my last project (last post here), I had been looking around for a free easy to use video editor for countless years and forced to use really bad free tools or other tools with restrictions, etc etc,  so I honestly think i have found my new video editor home in blender.

The monkey is i guess blenders equivalent to the teapot,  as far as I know the name of the monkey is Susanne 







Here is something i actually started a while ago, but never really got a good start on it, a prize if anyone can guess what it might be then
I am not sure whether to get a start on it proper, but If anyone guesses what it is i might reconsider


how do you wrap an image so you can control what size it is on the forum, and i think if you click it then it will open in browser?