Beacons

I realized a few days had gone by without a product. So here's a quick....thing I made.

It's got volumetric lighting and everything!



Resolution: 2500x3000
Number of objects: 14
Creation time: About half and hour
Render time: 10 minutes?

Update: Here's a nice 1600x1200 resolution version of this pic. Perfect for your desktop wallpaper (for you winders user) or just your desktop picture.

http://rapidshare.com/files/58530202/Sphere_Beacon_Desktop_.jpg.html

New Trick

The Mograph module for Cinema 4D can be pretty complicated, but it makes effects like this relatively easy. Much easier than trying to make it manually with splines, sweep nurbs, and such.

Don't worry if none of that made sense, I don't expect it to.



It's just a short, simple animation, and the video is at full resolution without compression. But I like the effect.

Creation time: If you take into account the time it took for me to learn how to do this, about 2 hours, I'd say
Render time: 17 minutes
Number of objects: The cubes and their trails. You do the counting.

Flowers and Cubes

Here's a couple of things I managed to make today. They aren't that impressive, and some of you will recognize the cubes, but I like them.





The full resolution, 80 mb download of that video can be got here:

http://rapidshare.com/files/56939943/FlythroughXGlobal.mov.html

I've lots of crap to do and think about. It's late. Goodnight.

Bracelet Blades

Here's my model for the weapon design I got from Briana. They are two bracelet weapons. Worn around the wrist (of course) and gripped by the wooden handles in front. These blades are on two separate plates. The first is a radial plate at the base of the blade. This plate rotates, allowing the user to position the blade to point back (as is shown) or sideways or completely forward. The second plate rings the bracelet. (It's the one with the gold bling) This plate lets the user rotate the blade around the bracelet entirely. The results can be compared to a blender. :)



Creation Time: I'd estimate about 2 or 3 hours for one. Copy and paste the other :)
Resolution of image: 2000 x 1125 (Not for desktop pictures)
Number of objects: 226
Render Time: 2 minutes 16 seconds.

Here's a demonstration of how the blades are meant to work. Stand back, it might get you! Now if I was any good at modeling characters, I'd make a REAL demonstration!



Creation time: the animation took about half and hour
Resolution: 640x480 MP4
Number of objects: 226
Render Time: 11 Hours, 55 Minutes, 17 seconds
Number of Frames: 1800

Coiled Sphere

See? What'd I tell ya? The blog really isn't dead. First day I'm back, and I'm already at it again.

This thing is just a warm up. Not really worth note, and I don't like it much. But it's a good way to show you what I can whip up in 20 minutes time.



It makes a decent desktop, but I really don't like it much.

Vacation

Don't freak out! The blog is not dead! I'm just on vacation, if you didn't know already.

Yup, got in and visited all kinds of people. Even went back and attended a couple of the clubs I was a member of at school last year. (Blue Kirby still pwns all!)

Anywho, I've got a few project ideas that I'll begin working on as soon as I get back. They include another weapon my friend Briana drew, as well as an attempt at modeling my own head. Briana is conducting a little RPG thing on Deviantart, and I wanted to model my character. We'll see just how ugly I can make myself.

Stay tuned, some really cool stuff is in the works!

Oh, and if you want to see two people try to weave an interesting story, you can find the transcript here:

http://bendnlsn.deviantart.com/art/Kuroi-Haso-Story-64447389

And, if you want to know more, I wrote a quick backstory to my character Radien:

http://bendnlsn.deviantart.com/art/Backstory-64319976

Shizukesa

Inspired by Myst: Exile and my own desire to make a sunset scene with water. I consider this one of my ages, though the structuring may seem familiar. I haven't thought up a name for it yet, but I'm taking suggestions.



Objects: 127
Polygons: 3920
Resolution: 1600x1200
Creation time: about an hour. Mostly to get the water right.
Render time: about 5 minutes.

Use it as a desktop if you like. I chose that resolution for this purpose exactly.

Update: I've decided on the name Shizukesa (Shee-zoo-key-sah), which in Japanese means Serenity. I think it's appropriate for the scene.