Needed an anatomy poster to go on Fester's bedroom wall as part of my Addams Family House project:[...] It was quite fun and I probably went into a bit more detail that necessary so I'll probably simplify it a bit later and make it look a bit more 2D.
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.
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.
Late Spring. Perfect time to post an Addams Family house render...[...] Based it on the 1991 film. I'm doing a larger Addams Family house project which is a cutaway (and has a much different, larger layout in order to show more rooms) and realised I could build the 'proper' house from the modular pieces I had.
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.
This is part of a larger project which isn't finished but I realised I might be able to have something shareable for around Halloween, which seemed appropriate, and put this together. This is one room from the Addams Family house I've made based on the house in The Addams Family (1991) film.
A cute, red, toy truck. A small background prop from a bigger project.
An extract of a larger project, testing out the Geometry Nodes cobweb system I made.
Fester Addams WIP, based on the The Addams Family (1991) film depiction.
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:
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.
'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:
Finally! I worked around the rendering issues mentioned previously, so I can finally reveal what I've been working on: the Iron Man 'Heartbreaker' suit.[...] Proof that I actually was working on something. Ha!
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.