CheesenessFor the midweek #Blendsday session, I made this little scene with some duck-themed cards
And here's the timelapse of that one coming together https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HURfbDiVtX4
#Blendsday modelling timelapse - Tower (2025-01-19)
For the midweek #Blendsday session, I re-created a scene from the Amiga port of the Star Wars arcade game from the 80s (with a couple of liberties). Would have liked to have gotten the X-Wing in there too, but I had a migraine coming on, so it was slow going
This past week's #Blendsday activity was "quick swap." Since I don't like to make/share stuff on Invasion Day and we didn't have enough people for the group activity to work, so I added an X-Wing to my previous mid-week piece
And here's the timelapse of that one coming together https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5bEq9SqMlU
#Blendsday modelling timelapse - Grave (2025-02-02)
For the midweek #Blendsday session, I re-created a scene I'd originally drawn for the Hand of Fate 2 mod I made while testing the modding tools before release (Ruben the Claw Troll https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1329533230 )
This week's #Blendsday prompt is "River." I made this little river scene with a sailboat and some cockatoos
And here's the timelapse of that one coming together https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qd6FZ2gWOTE
#Blendsday modelling timelapse - River (2025-02-09)
For the midweek #Blendsday session, I tidied up some zfighting, added animations to the cockatoos and the boat, and made a few other misc tweaks
Here's a closer look at my quick and dirty cockatoo animation
This week's #Blendsday prompt is "glasses." I made this little crocoguy
And here's the timelapse of this one coming together https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdVKlw8-afE
#Blendsday modelling timelapse - Glasses (2025-02-16)
For the midweek #Blendsday session, I took the time to do a head sculpt/study
This week's #Blendsday prompt is "Well," but I misread and went for "Wall" instead.
And here's a timelapse of that one coming together https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQvevLStfE0
#Blendsday modelling timelapse - Wall (2025-03-02)
For the midweek #Blendsday session, I tidied up my superhero scene a little
This week's #Blendsday prompt is "Crystaline." I made these little guys
And here's a timelapse of that one coming together https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbWErupVf2Q
#Blendsday modelling timelapse - Crystaline (2025-03-09)
For the midweek #Blendsday session, I came back to tackle what I didn't have the fortitude for on the weekend - a tribute to Mr Squishy, my oldest and smelliest friend, who passed away 9 years and one month ago. I have missed him every day since
This week's #Blendsday prompt is "weight." I made this pangolin soldier reflecting on some apparent cost
Decided to go off-prompt for the midweek #Blendsday session and make this sea friend
This week's #Blendsday activity is "Combine," where we're invited to work with a bunch of prompts at once - the prompt generator gave me "obsidian," "hollow," "bird," and "mail." The satchel and bubble wrap came out pretty average, and I probably could've lit it better to communicate that the interior of the broken statue is hollow, but I'm pretty happy in general
And here's the timelapse of that one coming together https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz2w_ywjgvo
#Blendsday modelling timelapse - Combine (2025-03-23)
Decided to come back to my #Blendsday piece from the weekend and try to make things read a bit better. The camera is animated now, which allows the shape of the bird statues to be more readable, and I coloured the interior of the broken statue to make it more clear that it's hollow. I also
replaced the crappy post satchel with a little crate off to the side. Still not perfect, but it's a long way beyond what I had on the weekend. I would've posted this yesterday, but it took 12 hours to render.
replaced the crappy post satchel with a little crate off to the side. Still not perfect, but it's a long way beyond what I had on the weekend. I would've posted this yesterday, but it took 12 hours to render.
For the midweek #Blendsday session, the prompt generator gave me "egg," "star," "drum," and "painting."
This week's #Blendsday prompt is "Statue." I made this Kurlan naiskos (possibly third dynasty)
And here's a timelapse of that one coming together https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFQaLz0Bi_Q
#Blendsday sculpting timelapse - Statue (2025-03-30)
For the midweek #Blendsday session, I made an Atlantean statue from Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
And here's a video of that one coming together (I had to take a phone call in the middle, which slowed things down a bit >_< )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGgsK396a_I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGgsK396a_I
This week's #Blendsday prompt is "Computer." I made this Amiga monitor (I've got a 360 turnaround animation coming, but it'll take a few more hours to render)
4 hours later #Blendsday
And here's the timelapse of that one coming together https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzjb3PNEfk8&list=PL0FB77845562641A7
#Blendsday modelling timelapse - Computer (2025-04-13)
For the midweek #Blendsday session, I optimised my Amiga monitor model a bit to decrease frame render times by a third, and added a mouse
This week's #Blendsday activity is "collaborative scene," where we pick a theme (we settled on "doll house") and spend some time making stuff in isolation that we then share and make our own scenes with. This one's got bits made by myself and Attitude
And here's a timelapse of that one coming together https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEEgPxHPxyc
#Blendsday modelling timelapse - Collaborative scene (2025-04-20)
For the midweek #Blendsday session, I made this picnic scene, featuring bits made by myself, Attitude, and Albarnie
This week's #Blendsday prompt is "starfish," so I made this buff starfish.
Starfish was also among the prompts for the first session when I started Blendsday back in February 2022 https://mastodon.social/@Cheeseness/107788743692376329
And here's a timelapse of that one coming together https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l0c95iiKfQ
#Blendsday sculpting timelapse - Statue (2025-04-27)
This week's Blendsday prompt is "tool." I took the weekend off and misremembered the prompt as "tunnel" for the midweek session, so I made this spider friend instead
This week's #Blendsday prompt is "skyscraper," so I made this scene of the sky being scraped clean. I painted two little paintings using Blender's texture paint mode, and used a mask to reveal the one underneath.
I got mixed up with last week's prompt of "tool," so it was nice to include a paint scraper here as well
Here's the timelapse of that one coming together https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKxiH_HP3ME
#Blendsday modelling timelapse - Skyscraper (2025-05-11)
For the midweek #Blendsday session, I revisited my scene from the weekend and worked on improving lighting and readability of the dome.
I had wanted to give motion blur to the paint flecks along their individual direction of travel, but I couldn't come up with a nice way to do that that didn't involve rendering each frame individually.
The #Blendsday activity for this week just gone is "revisit an old project." On the weekend, I poked around with a little grease pencil animation I started ages ago (working on the arrow draw and camera management), and for the mid-week session, I worked on some Fossil Sweeper globe stuff
This week's #Blendsday prompt is "crest." I made this spaceshippy
And here's a timelapse of that one coming together https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjH-Ea6MEJw&list=PL0FB77845562641A7&index=1
#Blendsday modelling timelapse - Crest (2025-05-25)
For the midweek #Blendsday session, I sculpted a cassowary friend
This week's #Blendsday prompt is "flag." I went off-prompt and did a quick sculpt of this little guy
And here's a timelapse of me sloppily pulling that one together https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHSKDrkT8oc&list=PL0FB77845562641A7
#Blendsday sculpting timelapse - Koala (2025-06-01)
For the midweek #Blendsday session, I stuck with the prompt and made this flag/banner
This week's #Blendsday prompt is "Rail." I took the weekend off and spent the midweek session working on an addon to speed up some Fossil Sweeper work. Nothing to share from me ^_^
This week's #Blendsday activity was "increasing interval studies" where we made 1 minute, 5 minute, 10 minute, and 20 minute versions of the same model. I poked around with using the "skin" modifier to make this low poly lion (it makes terrible geometry, and I spent a lot of time during the 10 minute one cleaning that up, so I didn't end up dealing with that/working the form as much in the 20 minute version)
And here's a timelapse of each of those comping together
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4MYG-BKhio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4MYG-BKhio
#Blendsday modelling timelapse - Increasing interval studies (2025-06-15)
Decided to give that one just a bit more attention
For the midweek #Blendsday session, I made some shells
This week's #Blendsday prompt is "channel." I made this lightning redirection scene
And a timelapse of that one coming together https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEBC81IZDVk
#Blendsday modelling timelapse - Channel (2025-06-22)
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Rose@Cheeseness Nice flag! I wish more flags looked like that!
Wendroid 🇺🇦@Cheeseness It’s a Cassowary!!! 💙 (favorite murder chimken!)
krejgo@Cheeseness for a new Cassowary game you're working on...?
@craige Nope, Blendsday is just for practice/fun!
@Cheeseness what the world needs now, more than ever, is a Cassowary game.
You are our only hope...
okr@Cheeseness love the idea for this one <3
@okr Thanks! I wanted to have some paint chips falling through the air, and would have liked to have made the city painting more detailed, but not being able to rotate the texture canvas in Blender was bumming me out :D
Might revisit it at some point!
Calligrafae@Cheeseness I am confused as to why I can't see this post in the Blendsday hashtag when I click the hashtag -.-
@welshpixie Hmm... I'm not sure. Maybe it takes a while to propagate across instances?
@Cheeseness I suspect it's because we have .social limited, even though I'm following you so I'd have thought I'd still see your posts in public feeds o.o
@welshpixie Hmm... I'm not sure then! Do my other Blendsday posts show up?
@Cheeseness none of them :(
@welshpixie Aww. At least I've got them in a thread, I guess
HardlyWorgen@Cheeseness That censor bar. 🤣