VFX and Motion Graphics

Meteor Strike

Scopique June 29, 2020

I forget why I wanted to make a meteor strike effect. Maybe because I thought it would simple to create a projectile effect with a smoke trail, so that was the extent of my original plan, but the overarching thing that I…

Sci-Fi Walls

Scopique May 2, 2020

Before I throw myself completely off the cliff into bottomless waters, I wanted to segue into more complicated models by way of lesser geometric opportunities. Again, blocks and panels and cylinders are fairly easy to manipulate using simple tools, and Great Things…

Cyberdeck In The Home

Scopique April 29, 2020

As I threatened, I took my rendered cyberdeck and threw it into After Effects. Three times. After Effects (AE) is designed for video compositing as well as motion graphics, but there’s no native way to get 3D models into AE out of…

Old Faithful: Shirow Networks RX7K Cyberdeck

Scopique April 27, 2020

This was the first design I had come up with a few years ago when I first tried my hand at 3D modeling. The design hasn’t changed all that much, but as I have been getting further and further ahead with my…

All Aboard the Oregon Trail

Scopique April 23, 2020

Here we have it. A fully-from-scratch model. I don’t know why I decided to try my hand at modeling a wagon. After playing around with the Viper for a few days, I think I wanted something simple, and something that I could…

Learning Curves: UVs

Scopique April 20, 2020

UV unwrapping is the precipitous drop after having finished my Viper model. In Blender, before preparing it for export to Painter, the model looks good. Not great, but pretty good. As I think I mentioned before, I relied on the “Smart Unwrap”…

The Colonial Viper Mk II

Scopique April 14, 2020

I ain’t calling it “done”, but for the most part, this first-pass 3D model of the Battlestar Galacatic (Reboot Edition) Colonial Viper Mk II is in a state where it’s a “whole” ship. I started this maybe 4 days ago, I think,…

My First Model

Scopique April 9, 2020

After watching a series of videos on CGCookie.com in which the expert artist took concept art of a sci-fi pistol and modeled the living hell out of it, I said that yeah, OK…I understood everything he did, why he did it, and…

Messy

Scopique April 9, 2020

I’m writing this mere minutes after my previous post, because while the topics are related, they focus on different aspects of the same thing: how bullshit preconceived notions on how we assume things work really are. There was a great article a…

Securely Insecure in the Knowledge

Scopique April 8, 2020

Thanks to the quarantine, I’ve watched dozens of videos on 3D modeling with Blender, and despite having watched dozens of videos on the subject before the quarantine, I feel that I’ve got a better grasp of about 75% of the basics that…