3D Art: Gemstone Cat (‘Meepie’)

3D Art: Gemstone Cat (‘Meepie’)

This is a Blender project I've been sitting on for a while. And my problem is, when I'm not satisfied with my art and I don't know how to immediately fix it, I let the art 'rest' for a while. In this case, several months. But today, I decided to get…
July 12, 2023
Blender EEVEE cherry material settings

Blender: Cherry Material (EEVEE)

I wanted to share with you my cherry material in Blender 3.2.0. I'm not saying this is the ultimate way to make a cherry, but maybe it can be of use to some of you looking to create a cherry in Blender without an image texture and without vertex paint. You…
January 5, 2023
Blender EEVEE how to make realistic clouds

Blender: How to make realistic clouds

In this blog post, I am going to walk you through the steps I took to turn my cartoon-style cloud into a more realistic cloud in Blender. The result will be as seen above: the rainbow ends into a fluffy cloud on each side. Notes: This is a Blender EEVEE guide…
December 9, 2022
3D Art: Dangling Earrings made in Blender

3D Art: Dangling Earrings made in Blender

An older art project that I made in Blender Cycles before, and updated it in Blender EEVEE rendering engine. This pair of dangling earrings is inspired by a pair of earrings that I bought over 10 years ago. ^_^ Another shot from below with a different background. A side shot of…
October 12, 2022
3D Art: Glass Kitten with Heart

3D Art: Glass Kitten with Heart

Today I decided to make a cute cat in Blender. I wanted the cat to hold a heart in its little paws. The kitten is entirely made up of cubes that I subdivided and then shaded smooth after, even the tail. I shaped the subdivided cubes with Proportional Editing turned on.…
June 6, 2022
Blender: How to add Transparent Images as Planes

Blender: How to add Transparent Images as Planes

For a project I'm working on, I needed to have Blender load multiple transparent PNG images as planes. It required a bit of experimenting how I could best do this, but I managed to do it as follows: Blender 2.82 Transparent Images as Planes Note: I use Blender EEVEE rendering engine,…
April 16, 2022
Blender Eevee: Equirectangular setting missing (HDRI doesn’t show)

Blender Eevee: Equirectangular setting missing (HDRI doesn’t show)

Well, that's not going to happen to me again at least. -_- While working on a new 3D project, I was puzzled that the HDRI image doesn't load in my Blender Scene. I spent about 15 minutes googling and comparing with my previous works, only to eventually find out that I…
December 21, 2021
Blender: How to Flip an Image Texture

Blender: How to Flip an Image Texture

I'm certain I'm not working with textures the 'professional way' in Blender, but I do have a way of applying textures to my models. This way pretty much always works out, except sometimes I will run into a little problem I need to find a solution for. One of these problems…
July 10, 2021
Blender Eevee Glass Refraction Fix

Blender Eevee Glass Refraction Fix

I just started using the EEVEE rendering engine of Blender and as I was attempting to transform a previous model I made in Cycles to Eevee, I ran into an ugly problem with the reflection/refraction of the glass material of my bottle. As you can see on the image on the…
March 7, 2021