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House on the lake – final cut

Oana — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:29:06 +0000

This is what finally happened to the dusk image, I tried to address part of the things pointed out in your comments, like I added an area light with a weird color trying to fake the light reflected from the water, and moved camera and trees a bit to give more depth to the image [...]

Getting a social life

Oana — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:11:59 +0000

No, I’m not going out more, to drinks with friends in town… you’ve probably guessed – I’m getting a Blendermama Facebook page up. For some time I have been trying myself to follow more useful content on the web and I realised how difficult and time consuming this is. I’ve been coming to terms by [...]

Finished project – Cycles interior

Oana — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:25:50 +0000

Today I needed to have one nice finished Cycles scene as a test for something my husband is working on (later I will write about this too) so I dropped everything else and finished my pet Cycles interior scene. I wrapped it up in quite a hurry, deciding for instance that books with white covers [...]

Currently blending… house+dusk+lake

Oana — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 21:22:54 +0000

I’m still in the “finishing stage” with this one, have been at it for some time and would really want to get on to something else, but I’m very slow at rounding it up – meaning the final color adjustments, maybe some detail twitching, the perfect crop… this is what happens when I’m the “client”! [...]

Aligning grass blades in particles group distribution

Oana — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:18:25 +0000

In a nutshell: since Blender 2.59, objects in groups used with particles have global x axis aligned with the emitter surface normal. Featured image is a detail from my current lakeside house project. Long version: my New Year resolution to finish last years projects brought me back to an old frustrating problem: grass made from [...]

Happy new 2012 blending!

Oana — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 06:57:00 +0000

I don’t really like New Year resolutions because it makes me look back at previous year resolutions not materialised and feel guilty. But you can’t go through all the New Year fuss without looking back at all, and there I saw dragging behind me a couple of unfinished projects. So this was my “resolution”: to [...]

Blender addon for creating parametric windows

Oana — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 21:07:02 +0000

I tested this on Blender 2.61 as soon as I saw it on Blendernation despite the decision I had made to stay away from work a few days and tidy up the house before New Year. Blender Window Generator Script from DragonLEE on Vimeo. Seems to work well and I was astonished such a tool [...]

Christmas competition entry

Oana — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 09:02:21 +0000

..and here it is! Merry Christmas! ..Are they helping with decorating the tree or are they helping themselves to some Christmas candy?… I used Cycles for this, here are some production details: The scene is minimal, I only put in some little fir twigs and the room is modelled in 10 minutes, that’s enough to [...]

Just a bit of fun

Oana — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:16:21 +0000

Instead of testing Cycles glass settings and working on her archviz portfolio Blendermama got carried away with season mirth. With all the renders of snowmen and Santa and ornaments around and having developed a sort of addiction for Blenderguru contests I couldn’t help giving the Xmas one a try. I think this is the lightest [...]

The addiction of virtual visualising

Oana — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 08:23:59 +0000

3D visualisations for architecture are a necessary tool but at one point this can become an addiction. Here I am, blending a simple picture display for my living room wall. It’s true my husband is not an architect and it’s a good idea for him to have a clear image of what’s in my head [...]