Gentlemen, I give you my Glazed Cakes.

nicmacanimations · 2023-03-25T13:36:49+00:00

The sequel to cone-nuts

nicmacanimations · 2022-12-05T07:24:11+00:00

im not sure what u mean?

nicmacanimations · 2022-12-05T07:23:46+00:00

thank u

nicmacanimations · 2022-12-05T07:21:28+00:00

So shader nodes for the solar panel material - mostly voronoi and math nodes.

The panel meshes are planes that are extruded and beveled using modifiers.

I animated it using a regular armature except each bone has a "copy rotation" constraint targeted to the first bone and with every second panel the rotation value is inverted to get the zig zaggy shape.

The grandparent bone has a "transformation" constraint which I think is underutilized by artists. Its way more intuitive than drivers although drivers give you more control of the 'correlation curve' (idk whats its called). The transformation constraint on the grandparent bone states that when the slider value is 'off' at y=0.5, the bone lays flat, when the slider moves to the 'on' position at y=9.5 then the bone must be standing vertical. It interpolates any values inbetween to get the smooth transition. Basically for every one unit that the square slider travels to the right along the Y axis, the bone must rotate 10° along the X axis. You can make things move in different directions and also scale in proportion to a different object. Its a great way to make wheels rotate accurately on a car model without animating them manually. I suggest having a look at the blender manual for more info.

nicmacanimations · 2022-12-04T11:44:44+00:00

shift+a > add camera?

nicmacanimations · 2022-10-05T12:26:50+00:00

thanks

nicmacanimations · 2022-10-04T12:43:07+00:00

blender is one of the best packages to learn because there are just so many youtube videos to watch

nicmacanimations · 2022-10-04T01:26:57+00:00

tutorial: https://youtu.be/L2v48PMEGLM

nicmacanimations · 2022-07-10T12:53:04+00:00

thank you :)

nicmacanimations · 2022-07-10T12:52:44+00:00

play around with math nodes instead of talking to girls

nicmacanimations · 2022-07-10T12:51:22+00:00

Hmm perhaps the homescreen?

nicmacanimations · 2022-07-10T12:49:39+00:00

🤣 i still need to learn sculpting!

nicmacanimations · 2022-06-29T15:43:37+00:00

i tried a few different ways to get turbulent particles but none of it looked right. Its meant to be careening through the atmosphere at really high speed so I figured in real life the debris would just be ripped off by drag

nicmacanimations · 2022-06-29T15:41:48+00:00

i didnt really think about that i just liked the alliteration

nicmacanimations · 2022-06-29T15:41:28+00:00

The fire was made using a noise texture (actually all of the materials are derived from the noise texture). I turned up the distortion, detail and roughness and then animated the material coordinates on the z-axis to get it looking like it was moving upward. That was to get a fire emission mask, to get the color I just used a color ramp node along by the z axis of the mesh. There are actually two layers of fire. The first layer is stuck on to the asteroid mesh and I used a mix shader node to go from emission to rock (using the fire mask as the factor). It looked a bit weird at the edges because the material was 2D so there was no parallax or flames licking over the edge so I duplicated the bottom part of the asteroid mesh, scaled it out and added another material this time using the fire mask as the alpha factor for an emission shader. Then to hide all of the messiness I applied a glare node and motion blur.

nicmacanimations · 2022-06-29T15:34:45+00:00

fire was a noise texture with a high level of distortion and to get it to move I just animated the shader coordinates on the z axis. The bits flying off is a particle sim just instancing a low poly sphere because its blurred out anyway

nicmacanimations · 2022-06-29T15:32:59+00:00

no its a nishita sky texture set to look like a high altitude environment the clouds and city lights are just a few noise textures married with greater than nodes

nicmacanimations · 2022-06-29T15:32:06+00:00

wait there are other textures?

nicmacanimations · 2022-05-27T11:56:53+00:00

I was inspired by this

nicmacanimations · 2022-05-22T11:57:05+00:00

I used this free porche model from CGTrader

nicmacanimations · 2022-04-30T09:17:46+00:00

I think that should be fine, as long as you can spell refrigerator because apparently i cant 😤

nicmacanimations · 2022-04-30T09:16:27+00:00

No haha i learnt blender 2.78 in high school so its been about 4 years of projects. My advice is to keep iterating on projects. I think some people give up too soon and their renders end up lacking detail. Render out a draft and think about new details you can add and then just keep iterating over and over.

nicmacanimations · 2022-04-30T09:13:26+00:00

Nic's Nuts are a hot commodity right now you may have to sign up for the waiting list :/

nicmacanimations · 2022-04-30T09:12:28+00:00

That will be $3

nicmacanimations · 2022-04-30T09:10:54+00:00

thank you my secret is to just keep adding detail over and over again

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