General info (sites, tools, etc)
I do like a bit of Blender, and I got some wind in my sails after doing the obligatory
BlenderGuru Donut tutorial, so here’s some of them.
All tools, textures, and tutorials used are listed below.
Sites
The Four or Five Elements
2023-12-30
Once there were five core elements. Now...only four remain.
🛠Engine: Cycles (with denoiser node)
🕑Render Time: 40 seconds
🔢Samples: 200
Moving my riches
2023-11-24Gotta put my riches somewhere, I'll just stack them all up
🛠Engine: Cycles (with denoiser node)
🕑Render Time: 65 minutes
🔢Samples: 100
🎬Frames: 340
Pinecones
2023-10-26
Fiancee asked for Pinecones, so here's some exotic pinecones 🤗
🛠Engine: Cycles (with denoiser node)
🕑Render Time: 140 seconds
🔢Samples: 2000
Esky on the Beach
2023-08-14
We all love the beach in one way or another, but how to make the beach even better? A full esky of ice cold beverages.
🛠Engine: Cycles (with denoiser node)
🕑Render Time: 30 seconds
🔢Samples: 500
Bad: Scifi Coffee
2023-07-23I wanted to make a scifi coffee, but I got bored pretty quickly 😥
🛠Engine: Cycles (with denoiser node)
🕑Render Time: 3h
🔢Samples: 100
🎬Frames: 1222
Lightsaber in box
2023-06-22
Maybe the lightsaber will come out of it's box later?
🛠Engine: Cycles (with denoiser node)
🕑Render Time: 20 seconds
🔢Samples: 400
Floating Box
2023-01-072023? Hopefully off to a better start than this
🛠Engine: Cycles (with denoiser node)
🕑Render Time: 80 minutes
🔢Samples: 100
🎬Frames: 250
Bad: Magic Stone Portal
2022-09-26
I like this one except for the ground. It's trash :(
🛠Engine: Cycles (with denoiser node)
🕑Render Time: 15 seconds
🔢Samples: 200
Bad: Australian Desert
2022-09-26
Another 'bad' one. I like the idea which came to me while driving home in the semi-outback, but couldn't articulate it properly.
🛠Engine: Cycles (with denoiser node)
🕑Render Time: 30 seconds
🔢Samples: 100
Bad: Asteroid Field Jump Gate
2022-09-25
These next few are a series of renders I'm not happy with, but just want to get out and done.
🛠Engine: Cycles (with denoiser node)
🕑Render Time: 1 minute
🔢Samples: 100
The Lighthouse
2022-09-01
Quick 1h render of some volumetrics that I turned into a lighthouse
🛠Engine: Cycles (with denoiser node)
🕑Render Time: 5 seconds
🔢Samples: 100
Dark Lake
2022-08-28
A quick render of a dark lake that was thinking about on holidays
🛠Engine: Cycles (with denoiser node)
🕑Render Time: 2.5 minutes
🔢Samples: 2000
Mechanical Book
2022-06-24I saw a post somewhere with a magic book, so here's a mechanical one.
🛠Engine: Cycles (with denoiser node)
🕑Render Time: 20 minutes
🔢Samples: 100
🎬Frames: 320
Knurled Glass
2022-06-14
I wanted to play with the new shadow caustics but I didn't get enough time, so for now, a fancy glass will do!
🛠Engine: Cycles (with denoiser node)
🕑Render Time: 10 seconds
🔢Samples: 200
Easter Bunny
2022-04-19
Hair particles are quite frustrating to control. I don't know enough about it.
🛠Engine: Cycles (with denoiser node)
🕑Render Time: 10 seconds
🔢Samples: 200
Infraspace city animated
2022-03-19A quick animation with a couple of extra assets!
🛠Engine: Cycles (with denoiser node)
🕑Render Time: 21 minutes
🔢Samples: 20
🎬Frames: 180
Infraspace city, Day and Night
2022-03-19
I've been playing a lot of Infraspace, and I love the Park and Stadium designs (which I've replicated myself here.
I also like the idea of a day night cycle to show off some of the assets.
🛠Engine: Cycles (with denoiser node)
🕑Render Time: 10 seconds
🔢Samples: 20
Pyrite Ball
2022-03-13
A Pyrite ball in 30 minutes!
🛠Engine: Cycles (with denoiser node)
🕑Render Time: 20 seconds
🔢Samples: 100
Dry Riverbeds
2022-01-15 I saw the thumbnail of the linked tutorial and thought to myself 'I can do that', so I did.
Hexworld
2022-01-07Playing with geonodes from tutorial, it's a hexworld! It's far more complicated to set up than I thought. A bunch of maths and thinking, and geonodes doesn't have great debugging yet.
🛠Engine: Cycles (with denoiser node)
🕑Render Time: 20 minutes
🔢Samples: 400
🎬Frames: 250
Tutorial: Hexagon World with Geometry Nodes Fields - Erindale
Happy New Year!
2021-12-31Quick New Years fireworks!
🛠Engine: Cycles (with denoiser node)
🕑Render Time: 30 minutes
🔢Samples: 600
🎬Frames: 90
Prepare for exploration!
2021-12-09Space scenes are great, and I wanted to play with adaptive subdivision (it's great as always, but wow, the default 1px is slooooooooooow)
🛠Engine: Cycles (with denoiser node)
🕑Render Time: 6 hours
🔢Samples: 400
🎬Frames: 220
Gateways to infinity
2021-11-30I know this looks like that tutorial, and I was inspired by it, but I just wanted to make rings
🛠Engine: Cycles (with denoiser node)
🕑Render Time: 4 hours
🔢Samples: 500
🎬Frames: 140
Little Wooden Crate
2021-11-22
Inspired by a crate my girlfriend had while moving house. The rope and the drawn on glass were the fun parts!
🛠Engine: Cycles (with denoiser node)
🕑Render Time: 1 minute
🔢Samples: 500
Tutorial: Draw Curves on Surfaces FAST in Blender 2.81-Quick and Dirty
Spinny Metal Ball
2021-08-11Quick spinning ball thing to play with JSDisplacement again
🛠Engine: Cycles (with denoiser node)
🕑Render Time: 4 hours
🔢Samples: 200
🎬Frames: 250
Bathroom Tiles
2021-08-08
Quick experiment with Geometry Nodes. I knew little, now I know little++.
🛠Engine: Cycles (with denoiser node)
🕑Render Time: 30 seconds
🔢Samples: 200
Freespace Inspired Nebula Flyby
2021-08-05I've been trying to improve my first person camera animations these last few renders, and I really like this one. Freespace!
🛠Engine: Cycles (with denoiser node)
🕑Render Time: 10 hours
🔢Samples: 250
🎬Frames: 600
Desert Archeology
2021-07-24Playing with the Cell Fracture Addon is good fun, but it did take quite a while for it to generate this, and much experimentation.
🛠Engine: Cycles (with denoiser node)
🕑Render Time: 4 days or something...
🔢Samples: 50
🎬Frames: 1150
Relaxing Nighttime Writing
2021-07-03Nice relaxing book for my sisters birthday!
🛠Engine: Cycles (with denoiser node)
🕑Render Time: 1 hour
🔢Samples: 200
🎬Frames: 60
Pirate Treasure
2021-06-24
Pirate Treasure for a Reddit contest
🛠Engine: Cycles (with denoiser node)
🕑Render Time: 80 seconds
🔢Samples: 200
Age of Empires Mill Comparison
2021-05-06
Watching some Age of Empires videos got me thinking
That mill looks pretty nice. Many experiments here, most successful.
🛠Engine: Cycles (with denoiser node)
🕑Render Time: 4 minutes
🔢Samples: 150
Age of Empires Mill Perspective
2021-05-06
A much more interesting angle with some extras
🛠Engine: Cycles (with denoiser node)
🕑Render Time: 4 minutes
🔢Samples: 150
Blowing Desert
2021-04-30Atlantis Stargate
2021-04-20
A Stargate was one of the first things I wanted to make. Finally got around to it!
🛠Engine: Cycles (with denoiser node)
🕑Render Time: 50 seconds
🔢Samples: 200
Crazy Concentric Voronoi (from tute)
2021-04-15Quick run to test this crazy voronoi displacement I saw on Reddit
🛠Engine: Cycles (with denoiser node)
🕑Render Time: 60 minutes
🔢Samples: 10
🎬Frames: 250
Tutorial: CG Matter
Futuristic Star Trek style table
2021-04-07So much gloss and transparency. There's loads of work in stuff that can't even be seen (e.g. pistons on lifter thing)
🛠Engine: Cycles (with denoiser node)
🕑Render Time: 23 hours
🔢Samples: 100
🎬Frames: 1320
Marbles and Pebbles
2021-03-09
More geometry nodes, with marbles!
🛠Engine: Cycles (with denoiser node)
🕑Render Time: 60 seconds
🔢Samples: 300
Geometry Node Station
2021-03-01
Quick space station using the new Geometry Nodes
🛠Engine: Cycles (with denoiser node)
🕑Render Time: 20 seconds
🔢Samples: 500
Floating Rock Platform
2021-02-28
I like floating platforms. I also like volumetrics.
🛠Engine: Cycles (with denoiser node)
🕑Render Time: 20 minutes
🔢Samples: 300
Control Service Weapon
2021-02-02Control is a fun game. I wanted to play with the Service Weapon in Blender
🛠Engine: Cycles (with denoiser node)
🕑Render Time: 60 minutes
🔢Samples: 200
🎬Frames: 240
My Subnautica Base
2020-12-04
Recently finished Subnautica and liked the aesthetic. Underwater bases are some James Bond villain levels of AWESOME :D
🛠Engine: Cycles (with denoiser node)
🕑Render Time: 12 minutes
🔢Samples: 500
Working on the stairs
2020-11-12
I wanted to try some procedural texture tiling. It's waaaay over my head though.
🛠Engine: Cycles (with denoiser node)
🕑Render Time: 13 minutes
🔢Samples: 800
Halloweeeeen
2020-10-20
I've always liked these kinds of spooky atmospheric scenes.
🛠Engine: Cycles (with denoiser node)
🕑Render Time: 12 minutes
🔢Samples: 200
Crystal Caverns
2020-10-14
Trying some glowing crystal action
🛠Engine: Cycles
🕑Render Time: 18 minutes
🔢Samples: 100, 1000 for volume
Mass Relay
2020-09-17Found this in the old boxes. My first foray into Blender, took months. Then about 5 hours to make it way better. Relay model isn't mine
🛠Engine: Cycles
🕑Render Time: 7 hours
🔢Samples: 100
🎬Frames: 1510
SCP TV
2020-09-10I love Control (Remedy game), and I wanted to play with boids
🛠Engine: Cycles
🕑Render Time: 13 hours
🔢Samples: 300
🎬Frames: 500
University Water
2020-09-04Playing with water and cloth sims
🛠Engine: Cycles
🕑Render Time: 12 hours
🔢Samples: 400
🎬Frames: 250
Borg Cube
2020-08-07
I got a decent way through making this without a tutorial, so I'm pleased. The JSDisplacement greebles and AO emmision methods are really cool.
Bullets
2020-08-07
Playing Halo MCC with a friend and figured it'd be easy to do that menu scene with all the bullets ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
🛠Engine: Cycles
🕑Render Time: 6 minutes
🔢Samples: 800
Shattered World
2020-08-07
Wanted to make a shattered world for a while. I'm not happy with this, but it's a start for next time. That volume tanked the rendertime too...
🛠Engine: Cycles
🕑Render Time: 20.5 minutes
🔢Samples: 400
Tea and Biscuits
2020-08-07
The teapot was the hardest thing to mode. Feels like I did it the hardest way possible.
🛠Engine: Cycles
🕑Render Time: 3.5 minutes
🔢Samples: 300
Well and Bucket
2020-08-07
Proving to myself I COULD do rocks with displacements, also the rope and grass.
🛠Engine: Cycles
🕑Render Time: 11 minutes
🔢Samples: 400
The Beast Planet
2020-05-13I got to practice some rigging, animations, and compositing :D It's from a show called Shadow Raiders. Some good sci-fi ideas in there.
🛠Engine: Cycles
🕑Render Time: 2 hours
🔢Samples: 400
🎬Frames: 600
Ancient Door
2020-05-08Ancient areas are creepy places! I wanted to try my hand at animating. I need to do a tutorial...
🛠Engine: Eevee
🕑Render Time: 5 hours
🔢Samples: 64
🎬Frames: 1100
Happy Easter!
2020-04-17
Eggster!
🛠Engine: Cycles (with denoiser node)
🕑Render Time: 1.5 minutes
🔢Samples: 128
Sword from CG Fasttrack
2020-04-06
The CG Fasttrack tutorial sword. I ended up using different assets or making some out of stubborness. The final result suffers for it, but I learned many new things.
Sword showing runes
2020-04-06
I did another one from the other side so I could see all those cool runes :D
🛠Engine: Eevee
🕑Render Time: 5 seconds
🔢Samples: 64
Sword WITHOUT cinematic compositing
2020-04-06
I almost like this one better. Still, compositing can add much more flair than I gave it credit for.
🛠Engine: Eevee
🕑Render Time: 5 seconds
🔢Samples: 64
Enchanting table
2020-02-29
My go at an enchanting table. Not really happy with it, but sometimes you're just done, you know?
🛠Engine: Cycles (with denoiser node)
🕑Render Time: 15 minutes
🔢Samples: 500
Urban Takeaway Coffee
2020-02-02
Coffee is the best thing, and sitting with one during the city buzz is very relaxing.
I was really happy with the bridge, but I realised that the DOF made it hard to see, so I did another one with less DOF :)
🛠Engine: Cycles (with denoiser node)
🕑Render Time: 15 minutes
🔢Samples: 500
Fixed olives, highlighted differences
2020-01-31
Finally fixed the olives. Note the differences mainly in the olives themselves, jar, and fork. I wasn't happy with the materials originally, and I want to show the difference now afterwards.
🛠Engine: Cycles (with denoiser node)
🕑Render Time: 25 seconds
🔢Samples: 100
Olives on a plate!
2020-01-27
Olives are my favourite single food. Good inspiration.
🛠Engine: Cycles (with denoiser node)
🕑Render Time: 25 seconds
🔢Samples: 100
Spooky
2020-01-26
This was going to be a bright grassy scene, but then I needed to hide the bad grass.
🛠Engine: Cycles (with denoiser node)
🕑Render Time: ~1 hour
🔢Samples: 100
Doonut
2020-01-18
Added a true Australian treat. Lamington :)
🛠Engine: Cycles (with denoiser node)
🕑Render Time: ~30 seconds
🔢Samples: 20
Tutorial: The Infamous BlenderGuru!
Floating Rocks
2020-01-18
I like floating rocks ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
🛠Engine: Cycles (with denoiser node)
🕑Render Time: 60 seconds
🔢Samples: 20
Moovin Doonut
2020-01-18Donut gettin spun into scene like a champ
🛠Engine: Cycles (with denoiser node)
🕑Render Time: ~2 minutes
🔢Samples: 20
🎬Frames: 60
Ocean View
2020-01-18
I wanted to try making water with mist in the distance. I like it.
🛠Engine: Cycles (with denoiser node)
🕑Render Time: 30 seconds
🔢Samples: 30
