The explorations of an artloader.
OK so here’s the artloader.net logo.
I’m gonna leave it at this because I’m in danger of spending a silly amount of time messing about with the settings in Blender.
Below is the clockwork bump map image I made for this in Gimp:
And here are the bronze material settings in Blender:
Here’s my 2nd logo design.
I’m trying for a steampunk feel by going for a brass-like colour with clock-work type cog wheels.
The 3D model was done in Blender and the cog wheel design was done in Gimp.
I needed a cog wheel image to apply as a bump map to my logo design so I had a little tinker in Gimp.
Here’s my process for making a cog wheel in Gimp.
Here’s my first attempt at a logo for this website.
It was done in Blender by first constructing a 2D shape and then extruding it upwards to give it thickness.
I like the shape but am not sure about the texture. I’m after something more … “clockworky”. Maybe some-kind of a cogwheel bumpmap …
[visualizer id=”537″]
After pondering my priorities for this project, I have moved the goal posts on myself and decided that no-longer will Timescales be the over-riding priority.
Instead Quality will be the over-riding priority.
The reason is that I am enjoying the journey as much as the thought of the end-goal so I want to continue to take the time to explore interesting avenues as I find them.
My Make A Steampunk eComic Dashboard page has been updated accordingly.
Tasks completed over the last 2 weeks:
Tasks planned for the next 2 weeks:
Here is a concept picture of The Dark Temple Of Mymosule from my upcoming digital comic.
In Manga Studio, I imported the planetary rings render I did from Blender and added a bunch of digitally painted layers:
I’m not sure the temple really looks like a temple so I will do a bit more research into dark temples and maybe do a 3D model to get my head around it all.
Using the 3D model from experiment 4, in Blender I moved my camera down to the planet surface and pointed it up at the rings. This is the resulting render.
I will now paint on top of this in Manga Studio to create a concept image of the Dark Temple Of Mymosule from my digital comic project.
After studying some reference photos, I played about with the planetary ring texture a little more in Blender.
Also, the sun is now shining from the lower left and has a bit of a red tinge to suggest a sunset.
I then scaled the whole model up by roughly a factor of ten because I will then locate a camera on the planet surface and take a render with the rings coming down from the sky to the horizon.
Hopefully I can use the render as a background for a digital painting of the Dark Temple Of Mymosule.
OK so I decided to use the colour ramp method from Experiment 2 and put together a simple scene with a marble textured planet.
The rings are actually made from a single disc, it’s the colour ramp texture that makes it appear as multiple rings. Colour ramps allow you to specify transparent areas so I’ve just got a single ring with some transparent areas on it.
I then followed Reaping Fire’s YouTube tutorial on making a star field.
Here’s the result of my Making Planetary Rings In Blender Experiment 3:
Continuing from my Blender planetary ring experiments with the Wood texture type yesterday, I thought I’d try out the Blend texture type.
I created a ring mesh by extrude-scaling a circle.
It took me ages to understand the different Blend texture parameters but I’ve found the following settings yield good ring-like patterns:
I then had to play about with the Mapping – Size X and Y values.
After that I made a concerted effort to finally learn how to use the Blender Colour Ramps (they’re flippin difficult to understand to begin with but once you learn how to use them, they’ll help you to world domination!)
So here’s the result of tonight’s experiment:
