Bowie Blender & Photoshop

[Doodad]

Hey folks, just a bit of playing around. Since I can't even draw a good stick man, I have to use 3D applications to simulate "drawing" something. Here a little Bowie knife I made using the Opensource Blender 3D, then adding some final touches in photoshop. Very simple

The background is layer masked over the rendered model, then copied again but this time blurred. The layer mask for the blurred layer is a simple gradient to fake depth perspective.

Critique not necessary as I can think of quite a few things myself already .

 

[Sean]

Stick men....haha, me neither!
Looks like fun. Is Blender 3D freeware, or did you buy it?

 

[Doodad]

Hi Patrick - it's open source - thus freeware.

URL to software:
www.blender3d.org -- just go to the downloads section - also check out the galleries for some examples of what this program can really do (in skilled hands).

URL to forum:
www.elysiun.com

URLs to manual & some tuts:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro
http://mediawiki.blender.org/index.php/Manual/Manual

Enjoy.

 

[Doodad]

Some other Blender & Photoshop co-ops. Still quite haphazard with both.

 

[namvet]

Doodad .. :} :} .... full marks for 'application' ... full marks for perserverance .. I find 3d progs sooooo difficult .... I don't have your perserverance .. but I'm stubborn (there's a difference) .. lol ... have played with 'animator' (with some success) .. and now have 'blender' [stuned], doubt I'll do much with it that I can post, it looks sooo, umm, 'anti- namvet' ... lol ... anyhow, hope you post more .. it might inspire me