Another #steampunk interior. High tech garden gazebo or away team dropship? Why not both? #blender3d #aesthetics #design

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Random #steampunk workstation with a porthole, because why not. Most of the surfaces are flat, with lovely details added through bitmap magic. Those curved stairs, when stacked, form a spiral staircase. #blender3d #blender3dart #design #aesthetics

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More #blender3d #cgi practice. Added workstations underneath the chief engineer's station. #steampunk #design #aesthetics #blender3dart #selfcare

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First time experimenting with depth of field. The pilot’s perch in a fancy #steampunk cruiser. #blender3d #blender3dart #design #aesthetics

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Between static hand-coded HTML pages and modern content-management systems, there used to be a wonderful bazaar of “mildly dynamic” websites

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Combined, base color, roughness and metallic passes. #Blender3d steampunk control panel.

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Many things in the world are awful. But creating this #steampunk #blender3d control panel helped me pass an hour or two quite joyfully. #design #aesthetic

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The Lost Art of Paste-Up

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More #steampunk #blender3d goodness. #design #cgi #blender3dart

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