Art

Here’s a few things I’ve made with https://www.blender.org/ and other art packages!

terraced-garden

garden

mountains

vase
Without proper raytracing (2001), reflections are hard!

bluebod
One of the things I really like about “regular” / real painting is how you can often suggest a mood, or a texture, or feeling without having to put in too much detail. You can be abstract and “sketchy”. This was my first attempt at trying to achieve a kind of non-rendered / non-computery kind of feeling. Going for soft curves rather than jaggies or boxes.

street-sax
Made in blender & gimp

winter

shack2
inspired by the monkey island games vibe

spring-flowers-light

cityscape
Made in blender. Again, very basic / blocky. I’d just seen bladerunner for the first time, I think, and was interested to see how easy / hard it was to make more atmospheric cities in blender. Looks pretty naff now, though…

Worms

cool-worm
worm-windmill
Made in blender. This was before “Worms3D” was even in Beta. They’d done the cool animations at the beginning of Worms2, and I really liked them.

Barmy the dinosaur

And then my first “real” blender creation, “Barmy”, who I’ve put into a bunch of christmas cards and other unlikely situations:

barmy

cake
for a friend’s birthday card.

dino-matrix-1

dinodoctor

santasaur

stenneth
Made in blender, a friend for “Barmy”.

Start

Yay! Finally moved over to madprof.net, which is much better anyway. I’ve just finished doing some web design (for which I got paid!) and so thought I would do the paying bits on geocities and uk2net to have the ghastly adverts removed. It turned out to be cheaper to get an intirely new domain (silly, isn’t it?) and to “borrow” some server space from my dad. I’ve also converted the whole site into a “Makefile” based system, to make it easier to update. I developed the system while working on the hotel websites, and found that I had to make frequent changes to the headers and footers of pages, or when sketching the site up, I didn’t want to bother with the full HTML which I would put in later. It works well. Perhaps once I’ve made it better I can upload it here.

Oh, and a few new images in art, a load of cool links to the hotels in web design, and quite a few small fixes and such about the place.