Bunny's Scraps

My wife is currently in school, and they had a class project that required the use of graphs and charts on a poster.  The aim of the poster was to present statistical information in a way that the general public could understand.  While most groups did the tri-fold display boards like you see in science-fair projects, my wife's group decided to do something cooler and asked for some "graphic support".

Here's the pre-build mockup:
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I made a few elements as mockups, which weren't used:
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And here's some elements that were used:
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The sun rays above was huge, here's a segment at full size:
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The idea behind the smiley sun was to show the results of a multi-question survey about happiness on one chart.  So each question was given a colored segment for the question's answers/options.  Positive options were chrome and negative options were crackled glass <-reverse that, mybad.

Unfortunately, I do not have a final version to share.  

Lo! I hath made a rock of procedural textures and renderdith it in Blender Internal:
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Messing around with metaballs:
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Ooooohh... meta-shapes? Looks fun... and shiny!!

BnBGobo99 wrote:Lo! I hath made a rock of procedural textures and renderdith it in Blender Internal:
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I've got that book too. Now for extra points, get it working in cycles

I've just noticed the Personal Development Thread mentions posting tutorial results. I must get one started in there... then I can actually post something I've done recently

Oops, didn't meant o re-post the picture, sorry. Just got back from a very cold archery shoot and my brain is frozen

Hark!  A voice from another land speaketh and taunts that a cycles rock shall appearithedith.  And it shall appearithedith.  

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And there was much rejoicing in the land of Blend.

Source: the coal chunk with gold and the chalky cracked thingy are lightly modified versions of the Blender 2.6 Cycles: Materials and Textures Cookbook.  You can pick up the book (and all other Blender/Python/Inkscape/GIMP books) for $5 this week only at [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.].

The coral was a slightly more modified version of the same texture.  There is actually very little difference between the three.

Welllll whaddya know. I'm reading that very book now Had a paper copy sitting on a shelf for a about a year. Thought I'd better plough through before it's totally out of date.

Nice rocks sir. The extra points are yours. I really like the coral in particular.

However appearithedith is NOT a word

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However appearithedith is NOT a word

It is now, TWO people said it, so..  

Oh no it isn't.

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Dude! I saw it on the internets... it's REAL!

Playing around with sculpt for a few minutes...
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Holy...    I guess you started off with a cube, right? How did you extrude the tentacles (or whatever those are) without getting stretched faces?

Hey Dobi,
In the topology panel, turn on dynamic topology and then use the snake hook brush. The sculpt I posted took just as long to sculpt as it did to texture--dynamic topology is a fast way to sculpt!