Bubbles and baubles 2/3

I suggested downsizing the tree this year, but my daughters wouldn't hear of it. Pleasingly enough, they have grabbed command of the whole Christmas show now that both have moved away from home. I'm humbly grateful they feel that way.

#christmas #jul #weinachten #bauble #julpynt #christmasdecorations #closeup #details #trio #triptych #sweden #pixelfedsweden

Art Advent 10: Baubles

I put a lot of work into the shaders for this one, and I'm pretty proud of them. The glitter shader uses the voronoi color output, projects it onto the normal, and perturbs the normal by that amount in an adjustable way. That took a bit of work, because I initially tried to output an RGB normal map and feed it into a Normal Map node, but I kept having artifacts on UV seams. Skipping UV and tangent space entirely bypassed that.

The bulby node tree (I think of it as a pumpkin) is done in UV space via two sine calculations, one offset from the other by half a period, and taking the max of it. It's a neat effect, and I've enabled a "Y Influence" input for twisting it along the V coordinate and a "Band Number" output to allow alternating colors and other effects. Getting the band number playing nicely with the Y influence took a bit of trial and error, but it's turned out well, I think.

#Art #AdventOfArt #ArtAdvent #ArtAdventCalendar #3DArt #Blender #Blender3D #CyclesRender #Christmas #Ornaments #Ornament #ChristmasOrnaments #ChristmasOrnament #Bauble #Baubles

Snow person | ajt

This morning it was my routine GP visit. My blood pressure was good but the medication can cause some oedema in my feet on the hottest days. So my...

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I uh... I might love doing this style a bit too much. The zen of painting all those little colour blocks one on top of the other... Yeah I'm stoked. Star bauble, enjoy! #bauble #stilllife #art

It had once been a tradition for me to make a #Christmas calendar (#Adventkalender)with the most horrible things thinkable, but these days I lack the time to gather atrocities and write something about them.
But I couldn't withhold this #bauble.

Not only is it kitschy as hell, defiling every #tree, make baby #Jesus cry in terror and even teach #Krampus the meaning of fear, but its bulgy, disturbing #eyes are forward facing!
A winged #cow, with a #wreath around its neck, #blood red #horns and #eyes, that ACTIVELY #hunts!

Putting this on your tree will at least mean nightmares, or worse, they will find some blood splatter but nothing else of your corpse...

Little boot | ajt

Back to work today and not a bad start of the year. Today's blip is a tiny boot on my mother-in-law's Xmas tree - which I disassembled...

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Red bauble | ajt

Normally on Saturday I make agalette complète for lunch but today we didn't, instead my wife made a quiche but used two galettes as...

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End of 2024 | ajt

Last blip of the year - and while lost a few days over Xmas, I'm actually complete every day at the moment and will catch up in the next few...

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