Book Shelf Game Model

Melee Weapon Game Model

Troll Game Model

I created these three models to apply for a vacancy I had found at the website of Jagex where applicants were required to complete this test.

The rigging and putting into live action of the troll wasn’t part of the test and I did it only to practice a little more with rigging and animating for the Blender Game Engine.

The bookshelf and the troll models were created from the concepts provided by Jagex. For the melee weapon I had to come up with something of my own.

The limitations were 250 tris for the weapon, 500 tris for the bookshelf and 1000 tris for the troll. Also, max texture size was 128 x 128.
My models ended up to have 244 tris for the melee weapon, 440 tris for the bookshelf and 982 tris for the troll. Note that the bookshelf didn’t need to have faces pointing down.

All models were created with Wings3D, unwrapping was done with Blender. I then proceeded to 3D-paint the troll and the weapon from inside Blender. Gimp was used for minor adjustments to the textures and to create the texture for the bookshelf.

Blender Christmas Cookies with Volume Materials

Update (May 31, 2010): This is a WIP using dense volumetric materials but even with the latest builds of 2.5, volume materials don’t cast shadows on other volume materials yet.
So I’m waiting for newer releases and doing some other exciting Blender stuff meanwhile.

Read on for the original post:

Blender Christmas Cookies

Original Post (Jan 1, 2010): What’s the best way of spending Christmas? Doing some cookies or doing some Blender? Well, I made some Blender Cookies with Blender
Modeling was done with Wings3D, I then imported the models into Blender 2.49a and then appended the models into a new Blender 2.5 Alpha 0 document (Import functionality in Blender 2.5 Alpha 0 is not yet to par with 2.49)
I added a Subdivision Surface, and a Displace modifier to the cookies. Only procedural textures were used, most of the materials have SSS enabled, I used an area light and ambient occlusion approximate to light the scene. The crumbs are done with hair particles using random crumb models from an object group. Defocus achieved with the defocus compositing node, other than that no post production done to the image.
Render time is about 17 minutes which is quiet fast considering that my machine is a HP Mini Netbook.
I hope you like it and wish everybody a happy new year!

Moon Box Model

I made this box for my Runaway Star animation.

Moon Candles Model

I made this candles for my Runaway Star animation.

Solar Car Model

I made this model for a project Gaby was working on.

Bug Glass Model

I made this model as part of my Runaway Star animation.

Broken Dishes Model

I created this model of broken dishes while participating in the Community Modeling Sprint for the Durian Open Movie Project.

Feel free to download and use it under the Creative Commons Attribution “By” 3.0 License.

• Download the .blend file for the broken dishes model

Dead Rat Model

I created this model of a dead rat while participating in the Community Modeling Sprint for the Durian Open Movie Project.

Feel free to download and use it under the Creative Commons Attribution “By” 3.0 License.

• Download the .blend file for the dead rat model

Vereda Logo Desktop Background

This animation starts when you move the cursor on top of it.

I created this new Logo and 3D animation for Vereda. The concept by Juan Astorga was to use the platonic solids edges as a base for creating the letters that form the company name. This animated logo is being used on all new websites of Vereda.

Modeling was done in Wings3D, the final animation is a mix of Yafaray renders and Blender renders, Photoshop was used to save the images as sRGB and Flash to create the final interactive animation.

The image above is a preview of a desktop background version which is based on the version for print.