A fun experiment with shadows in Blender. Click below for the gallery.  

I wanted to use the cell-shaded manikin in an animated cartoon, so I created this setting: a toon-looking castle to be viewed as 2-dimensional. Almost everything is cell-shaded to some degree, even the bricks. It took a lot of time, but I’m … Continue reading →

I don’t remember how I got the idea to combine these two projects, but I’m very happy with the result. Basically, I re-made the earth model, but used head models instead of spheres: Song: A New Beginning -Good Charlotte pics:

I decided to make a human face in Blender to have for future projects and to test my modeling skills. I just took front and side-view diagrams of a head from google images and used them as references.  

I wanted to animate a “sunset” on the moon. I used a tutorial to get the right textures for the earth (land, clouds, atmospheric glow). I experimented with material nodes to get the effect of city lights appearing only on the dark … Continue reading →

I took the manikin figure I made and gave it a wooden texture. The stills are meant to be viewed in order. Click below for gallery.

I wanted to have the model of a human figure, for use in future projects. I started this with a 3D stick figure in mind, but I realized that an artist’s manikin would be better for what I want to … Continue reading →