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Marius Oberholster Hey! I'm having an incredible learning experience, not only learning how Blender works (yes, still learning), but also about Open-Source and the incredible software available. Stick around!

Music progress 006-007 and a close-up!

January 13, 2012
Progress 006 - Bookshelf added with books and some ornaments.

Obviously the golden spheres are not good enough as ornaments throughout the shelves in such a huge number, so I threw some out and added some abstract birds (that translates as 'looks like something else', lol).

It was also the first real attempt at UV texturing. What it is is what you would use to paint onto a 3D shape. You unwrap your object as if it was made out of fabric so it lays out flat, then you paint over those folds. The software then wraps that painted image over the object or character. 


Progress006

Progress 007 - Bookshelf ornaments done!

This was a fun day I have to say. Yes the rendering takes a while, but, at 10 light samples per lamp, it's beginning to go faster.

I noticed around these two renders that all the spheres looked exactly the same on their roughness, so I changed the mapping to be focused on one's locations and now everyone looks different! The catch is that won't translate into video, because the others' textures won't move as they do, but since this is only for panoramic-type video, it shouldn't be an issue.


Progress007

Three birds sitting - Close-up so you can see the UV texture

I luvd making these little birds! Their eyes are too far back, but in this case it makes them all the more cute to me!! Very low poly with the subdivision modifier applied.


Three birds sitting - Zoom

Big tip!:

When using UV's make your mapping is set to flat! Cube gives a very distorted result and works best generated textured such as clouds, wood, marble etc.
 

Music room update!

January 11, 2012
Oh, this is a project and a half, lol. This is a partial render of today's work. I am super jazzed about how the guitar came out!! Just see how it looked in the previous post and you'll see the difference, but for the sake of ease, here is how it looked before:
Before:


After:


Thank you for all your continued reading and support!! Hope these inspire you to go do something spectacular!!

Thank YOU!!!

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Music room (not a studio, there's a difference, lol)

January 10, 2012
This is a work in progress. My cousin has a music room in his house, and it's a very long room and I wanted to do a redesign of the space and see how I would like such a room to look like and this was what I believe HE showed me (the start of it at least).

Usually when you have a very long space, you want to divide it up into sections, so the space doesn't seem so overwhelming and it creates two spaces then. Going from 'oh now, what are we gonna do with this huge room' to 'oh cool, open plan'....
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What a week!! (^^,)

January 5, 2012
Finally got to a lot of things this week!! I got to mow the lawn again (it's been raining a bit, keeping me from it for about two weeks) and it was great exercise! That same morning I redid most of the site's organization and I like the way it looks now. It's a lot more organized and making better use of the space. Especially the home page.

Also got to write a musical piece for one of the CA (Cross Allegiance) videos!! Really excited about it being used for the Gospel!!!

This has really been a ...
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