“The Entertainer”

Shure 55 vintage microphone, created and rendered in Blender. Multiple Boolean operations and an unforgiving chrome surface made modelling an interesting challenge. The scene is lit with a single HDRI. Balancing highlights and shadows in low-light scenes can still be a struggle, pushing my post-processing and lighting skills to their limits.

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"Sony SEL14TC 1.4x teleconverter camera lens"

Modelled and rendered in Blender, with a heavy use of decals.

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"Sushi"

Modelled and rendered in Blender3D, with most textures made in Substance.

(The kanji stamped on the blade is a bit of an inside joke, if you read Japanese).

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Compact Fluorescent Light

Designed in Blender for a future project, rendered in eevee.

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"Antique Victorian candleholder"

A quick Blender study, using Substance for some textures. I'm trying to pay closer attention to color space in my workflow; new and tricky to me, and a specialization in itself.

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"Rite of Passage"

Most everyone’s journey in Blender features a wine bottle and glass, often several times. The combination of simple curves and shiny surfaces often compels 3D artists to explore the combination over and over, much as still life scenes inspire painters.

This is my version, differentiated from most by the substitution of a port sipping pipe (derived from a 17th century English design) in place of the classic wine glass, and a bottle that moves between rectangular and circular profiles. Managing a 16K HDRI with 17 exposure levels for reflections was also a focus of the work.

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"Philco Predicta Princess"

The classic TV model of 1959. Modelled and rendered in Blender, using Cycles; made for an upcoming animation.

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"Not Out"

While it took considerable effort to work out the right “recipe” to portray the ultra-fine curly hair on the surface of a new tennis ball in Blender, I’m quite pleased with the result.

The tennis court material is derived from Substance, with PhotoShop used to integrate the paint line. The initial output of that process was far lower resolution than I expected, but became a “happy accident”, producing a pleasant depth-of-field effect without setting focus.

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