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A 3D render of a cute, red armchair surrounded by piles of books with a small table and table lamp next to it.

Cute Objects

Realised I could have been sharing the various props I've been making for my Addams Family House project instead of staying mostly silent. So here's a collection of the props renders I finally got around to doing and posted daily a couple of weeks ago:[...] I've also updated the Addams Family House project page to include these and the various other renders I've done that are all part of that project.

A 3D Render of Pugsley Addams strapped in an electric chair and Wednesday Addams electrocuting him in an attic.

Addams Family Isometric Render

Following my previous post where I realised I could extract out some parts of a larger project to make a separate render, this time I extracted the attic scene out of my Addams Family house project to create this isometric render and close-ups:[...] I did have to modify the attic scene quite a lot to match the style of an isometric render - the original attic is a deeper room, which doesn't look right when viewed from an isometric angle, but I think it's worth it to get a little extra something out of a large project which is taking far longer to complete than I originally thought.

Close-up of a 2D render of a green ball on a green plane, made to look like it's been painted in thick acrylic.

Converting Renders to Brush Strokes

Like others, I've been experimenting with converting a 3D scene to brush strokes using Geometry Nodes for use in a project. Obviously, a slightly exaggerated effect shown here. Will probably not use the bump at all in the project it's for.[...] Couldn't figure out how to do it directly from 3D, so this just samples a 2D render for the brush stroke colours and has a few guide curves to direct the stroke direction. The key is to use 'Curve to Points' and use its 'Rotation' output to rotate the instances.

A 3D render of a model of a silver metallic forearm shown from two different perspectives on a dark grey background.

Modelling The Forth Arm

In my last post I noticed that the forearm models looked a little less than perfect. The forearms were one of the first parts of the model I made and originally I really wanted to make sure they conformed to the reference images I had. Coming back to them now, I think I made them conform a bit too much. Even though they appeared to fit the references, they were a weird shape when viewed from the top. I thought it would be better to reshape them to something more logical even if they didn't match the reference images as well:

A 3D render of a model of the helmet and neck from the Iron Man 'Heartbreaker' suit shown from the front and back on a dark grey background.

Making Headway

Despite promising to cover some of the modelling processes I use for the 'Heartbreaker' project, I'm just doing a short post today. Hard surface modelling techniques can wait until I have time (and/or inclination) to do a proper write up.[...] In my ongoing modelling odyssey* the Heartbreaker project continues, today with the 'finishing' of the head. I say 'finishing' as there are still a few things to do, like a few interior panels that lie behind the exterior panels, but essentially I have finished the main modelling.

A 3D render of a model of a silver metallic bicep shown from two different perspectives on a dark grey background.

Selective Unhide Add-on

'Heartbreaker' isn't the main thing I'm going to be talking about today. I did do some work on it (as I do every week); it was an update on the head, and I wanted to finish that update before showing a 'before and after' comparison, so until that's fully finished, I'll just show the newer version of the bicep which I also worked on:

A 3D render of a cartoon vacuum cleaner fighting a cartoon robot. The vacuum cleaner has a very long neck which is twisted around the robot and the robot's long tube arms are twisted around the vacuum cleaner.

Robot vs Vacuum

Just a quick 3D re-doing of an old illustration:[...] I had wanted to call this 'Robot vs Hoover' but I think it's only the UK and a few other places that use the word hoover, which is a brand name, as the alternative word for vacuum cleaner. For the sake of international understanding the name had to change. It was a big sacrifice.