Category: Blog
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How I Made it to the Finalists of the SciArt Challenge: Part One
What is the SciArt Challenge? Hello again near the end of 2024! For this post I wanted to go over a new project that I just recently finished up, and a very special one at that. This year I made it into the finalists of the SciArt Challenge hosted by the RenderMan team! RenderMan is…
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Concept to Creation: The Shattered Sword
Hello! This was another side quest, this time into the wonderful world of swords! So Cara has another prompt month called Swordtember. As the name implies its a month long of prompts themed around swords. This one is for day 15: “shattered.” And I understand that it not currently the 15th, but I figured that…
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Artist Snapshot: August and the Surprise Lizards!
Introduction Well, hello again! For this post I wanted to go over my favorites of what I created for and inspired by a new month long event I found called Smaugust! Smaugust, as explained by this blog post, is a month long series of different daily prompts. Its similar to Inktober but focused on dragons…
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Concept to Creation: The City’s Always There
Back so Soon! Hello! I am back, and so soon too! This is the second and final part of my series about the creation of my newest 3D art in Blender: The City’s Always There! The first part goes over the creation of the main character in the piece, Oril. Here, I’ll be highlighting different…
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The Big Fish Animation Process
After so long this project is finally done! This was a project I started back in March with the creation of the concept art pictured below. I never expected it to take this long to complete, but the amount of detail mixed with my day job definitely made it so. Good things take time after…
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My Current Progress on the Big Fish Animation: 5-9-24
Time for another Project in Progress, where every seven(ish) days, make an update to what I’m working on. While I planned to get it done this week, my most recent project, The Big Fish Exhibit, is going to need a bit more work. But, I still made a lot of progress, so lets get started!…
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The Big Fish Exhibit – A Project in Progress
Long Time No See, Huh? To start off, I know I don’t post a lot. My apologies, but also things take a lot of time, and with my day job that time gets even longer. But, instead of ghosting this website for 2+ months between projects, I wanted to make some smaller posts every week…
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My Rediscovered Love for Blender, and What I Made
Preamble Simply put, I adore Blender. Its the 3D, open source software with a dedicated community using it to create amazing things. Whether or not its the industry standard is irrelevant to me, through the years it remains my favorite 3d software. I’ve been working with Blender since version 2.4, when it still had a…
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The Pacific “Purple Space”: My New Art Agglomerate
I love space. The concept of everything we know flying through an endless void on a rock the relative size of a dust particle gives me that perfect, existential feeling I can curl up with on the floor at the end of a long day at work. Okay, maybe not, but the noiseless void and…