Projection Mapping

Desert Boat

Aug 14, 2022

Weekly Art Challenge, Art

Blender, Projection Mapping

I’m a big fan of paintings and pictures of a boat with “Point Reyes” on the bow for some reason. I must have seen the picture come up on the Chromecast idle rotation and there are some pretty great pictures and drawings/paintings of it out there. And then I’m also a fan of some photos of the Namibian desert that I’ve seen, likely also on the Chromecast. So I took some liberties with my wife’s subject of a boat at sea this week and decided to model the boat and then projection map the texture to it. Was interesting and I’m okay with the result aside from not having a ton of time to work on the lighting again.

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Flamingos

Aug 7, 2022

Weekly Art Challenge, Art

Blender, Rigging, Projection Mapping

This week was Flamingos. This was our first weekly challenge, and I have some experience with Blender so I picked rigging and cloth sim as specific things I wanted to work on this week. I bit off way more than I should have and had no time to work on lighting so that’s a bit of a rush job. But I was able to get a decent generic Flamingo model done with an inverse kinematics rigged neck to make it easier to pose. And then I was able to drape a canvas cloth sim over a stack of boxes and over some wagon train style struts. Managed to get the cloth to sew to pinned vertices to create the effect of looking tied down.

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