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
Take5
2024-12-21AV1 support in Edge requires a Microsoft Store Extension.
I love Take5, so I did Polyfjord's tutorial, but got more complicated than expected...
🛠Engine: EEVEE
🕑Render Time: 5 minutes
🔢Samples: 20
🎬Frames: 1403
Tutorial: Making a Bouncing Curve Audiovisualiser in Blender 4.2
I remember seeing the
original video a while ago, and then he released a tutorial!
So I wanted to try it out.
Only…it didn’t quite do what I wanted, so I had to tweak and tweak and tweak until I’d rebuilt the whole bounce curve addon as a
node group.
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
