Another day, another 10 square centimeters of #steampunk control panel. #blender3d #blender3dart #design #practice #aesthetics #creative #selfcare
If I don’t design the control panels for my fantasy #steampunk project, who will? #blender3d #blender3dart
Another section of a #steampunk control panel for a texture atlas. #blender3d #blender3dart #creativity #selfcare
Life would be so much better if all the interfaces we encountered looked like #Steampunk control panels. I’m doing my part in the endeavor. #blender3d
Many things in the world are awful, but my latest #Blender3D work on my #steampunk control panel brought me great joy over the weekend
One of many steampunk control panels I’ve designed for pleasure.
#Blender3D practice: #Steampunk control panel #trimsheet
More #Blender3D practice. Additional details for a steampunk control panel. Just because.
I spent Thanksgiving break building a #trimsheet for steampunk control panels, because why not? #blender3d
Steampunk officer uniforms — test #Blender3D #Unity3D
The video clip shows uniforms I’ve created lately, for a personal project based on the steampunk bedtime stories I used to tell my now-adult children. I start with the standard human models that are part of the Unity Game Engine’s UMA system, and in Blender3D I shape each piece of clothing as 3D geometry, down…
A 20 sq cm section of #steampunk #blender3d goodness. #blender3dart
Just an elegant retro keyboard for a #steampunk #cgi project. Procedural materials mean I can zoom in much closer than I ever expect I would need to. #blender3d #blender3dart
Blender 3D Flyover of Fantasy Steampunk Spacecraft
When my kids were small, at bedtime we had interactive “blimpship stories,” set in a steampunk world. I would set up the latest plot developments, each child would pick a character they wanted to focus on, and I would play the DM as we role-played for 15-30 minutes. These stories grew amazingly complex and developed…
This Is What Summer Vacation Is For: Designing a Steampunk Airsloop with Blender 3D
Summer vacation means if I am telling my kids steampunk bedtime stories, and the story requires an ether-powered vehicle larger than a life pod, but smaller than the ship-of-the-line where most of the plot takes place, I can visit Wikipedia to look for a class name — I like “sloop” — and then dash out…
Progress over 11 years of Blender3D practice
Over the past few years I have created lots of assets, including control panels, furniture, and textures, for an ongoing neovictorian/steampunk personal project that began as bedtime stories that I told my kids from about 2008-2013. Around 2012, the story I was telling required a mid-range support craft larger than a shuttle, so I roughed…
Blender 3D Portfolio
Blender3D is an open-source computer design tool. In my spare time I have taught myself how to make CGI scenes and videos.
Oh my, that is a wide screen, Warner Brothers #TheMusicMan.
#BuckRodgers was fun. Looks like The Music Man is next. Shirley Jones, Robert Preston, Buddy Hackett.#TheMusicMan Cash for the merchandise, cash for the button hooks… Love the traveling salesman opening number. #TheMusicMan It’s like rap, but it’s white guys rhyming about credit and sales territories. #TheMusicMan Hats! Hats and bow ties. Go ahead, surprised and angry salesmen,…
Boredom Enthusiasts Discover the Pleasures of Understimulation
I stayed up until the wee hours of the morning today, teaching myself something called “normal baking” in the computer modeling program Blender. I did it because I had nothing else pressing to do, I was too wound up to sleep, and too tired to do anything really productive. I wouldn’t say it was boring,…
Preparing my Pre-teen Readers
I vividly remember the day I got bored with the juvenile section of the library. I had read all the Encyclopedia Brown books, all the Lester Del Rey books (about moon rocket pilots and such), and the entire shelf of astronomy books. Walking around the corner to the adult stacks was a powerful epiphany. (For…
What Ails Literary Studies: Leaving Literature Behind: The professionalization of the field is turning students off
We’re not teaching literature, we’re teaching the professional study of literature: What we do is its own subject. Nowadays the academic study of literature has almost nothing to do with the living, breathing world outside. The further along you go in the degree ladder, and the more rarified a college you attend, the less literary…