For a while, I’ve been working on AsteroidsVR, a 3D adaptation of Asteroids for Steam VR & Unity. Right now, it’s mostly me learning about game dev / design for VR games – and trying to make something fun along the way. This is the first in what will most likely be a series of posts talking about the game’s […]
I recently published img2plot, a Python script that generates artistic pen-plotter sketches from arbitrary images. A lot of plotter projects have code for drawing images. Usually they do something with line density and pixel intensities – a semi-random stippling or wave pattern, for example, with smoothly higher density for darker pixels. These can very faithfully represent the image, but they […]
This was a quick thing mostly to play around with micropolygon displacement & grunge materials in Blender – but I ended up fiddling with it for a while, and learned a bit more about Cycles materials for particle systems. The sword itself was modeled after a few images of German 14th-century longswords. I’m leaning fairly heavily on the subsurf modifier […]
Over the holidays I realized something – I make all sorts of things in my spare time, but most of them never see the light of day. In part, this’ll be my way of fixing that. What I post here will be part creative portfolio, part technical portfolio – and usually discussed from the technical side of things, because that’s […]