Rude Goldberg Machine
Made Using Blender and Substance Painter
Rendered with Cycles over the course of 3 weeks
Camera Constraint modifier used to track to the ball, with follows a curve placed between the glass rods
Rigid Body simulation and a random custom texture generator used for dominoes
Particle systems used for final scene to scatter the industrial backdrop
Followed TutsByKai’s tutorial to learn how to make fireworks
All sound effects recorded myself
Song sampled: The Family Crest - "Beneath the Brine"
Mini - Biomes
Stacked cones with multiple knife cuts used to form the trees. Each one has a personal armature with a separate bone for each 3 layers, for potential wind simulations. Amanita mushrooms appended from a separate project. Fog is made with a volumetric scatter from a cloud noise node with a color ramp to determine the contrast. Water generated via displacement from a custom water texture.
Igloo generated with multiple horizontal lines of ice cubes set on a circle curve, then collapsing it inward via the Simple Deform modifier used on the Global Z axis, the origin being at the center of the floor. PNG smoke image imported as a plane to add smoke to the fire. Ice texture taken from Poliigon, with additional transparency.
Palm leaf made with an Array modifier combined with a Mirror modifier, around an extruded curve. Waves made with Ben's Ocean Wave shader. Cloth texture used for coconuts, since there is not a single free coconut texture available on the internet at the moment :P
Fractal displacement map used for the larger coral. Spot light + water surface PNG + volumetric scatter, used for sun rays. Boid particle physics to simulate the fish.
Custom noise/bump texture for the birches. Emission plane + area light, used for backdrop. Scatter 5.2 for the shrubbery.
Point light and volumetric scatter used for the lighting. Skeleton generated via PNG extrusion. Particle systems for both the cactus pricks and the dead grass.
Sakura leaves are weight-painted particle distributions, from an alpha-hashed flower image. PNG smoke image imported as a plane to add smoke to the lantern. Cloth brush and pin groups used to create folds on the carpet under the table.
Sofiane Maroc's Rock/Cliff addon used to generate the cave. Lantern appended from another project. Custom crystals scattered via particle systems with randomized rotations.
A.N.T. Landscapes and photo-scanned rock brushes used for the Iceberg. PNG extrusion used for the crack. Clouds and water appended from biome #1.
Volumetric noise with a cloud texture and a randomized color ramp used to make the swamp water. Slight emission on the lily flowers to add more color. Rock brushes used to extrude the inside of a photo-scanned tree. Small bugs scattered on water surface for detail.
Yellow Brick Road
Road modelled manually with brick texture randomly selected from a non-gradient color ramp
Well was inspired by Grant Abbitt’s tutorial
Mushrooms, flowers, grass, and rocks scattered with particle weight maps
Star sky HDRi downloaded from Polyhaven
Rendered with Eevee with Glow enabled
Color correction, vignette, and Starglow water effect completed in After Effects
Samurai Stand
Modelled, Rigged and Animated in Blender
Rendered with Eevee
Background/Foreground made in After Effects
Foreground leaves made from self-shot footage, with a keyed-out sky
Leaf particles generated with Trapcode Particular
Foreground for is Unmulted Youtube footage
Wave plugin used to fake the wind in the grass
Originally a 2 minute animation made for an OC song