A quick preview of the last few days work. Camera scripting, corresponding parallax scale and fades, vertical parallax scrolling and early obstacle tests.
Recorded from editor as a .webm for convenience, uploaded to yt for convenience. If I can keep being this lazy with presentations this should become a regular event 
It’s aaLivvvveee
It’s been alive for a long time, just not out there.
Here’s the pre-alpha announcement trailer for Project Parsley:
Hiya! Just showing off this Blender render – logo for a small business.
Sure I could have done it in an image editor, but I started out with the pandanus tree model and had other plans for the Kanagawa Wave representation. In the end, black and white line style was the go.
This was rendered out at print quality for up to about a meter large screen printing, will be used on signage etc.
Cycles render, with secondary BI edge render. Comped in Blender. I needed a lot of variations for the text (which is obv not there), so I comped that separately in an image editor.
[insert Barney "I like it"]
Not even sure if that’s the correct way to describe it But hey! Here’s a little job I’ve just finished off. To scale work in Blender: Colour is Cycles render, line art is Blender Internal using Freestyle.
And here’s the basic model in sketchfab (it’s kinda hefty).
Had an urge, made POC. A little bit of fakery to achieve an effect. Nothing too fancy
Click for the live version (ShiVa web player required – desktop PCs only).
ShiVa Hologram Proof of Concept
After a brief conversation about poly trails in ShiVa this morning I came up with a mostly unrelated idea to create a SFX only Xmas tree. Created using only poly trails and particles within ShiVa. Only about an hours work in there and most of that was sorting out anchor points for the trails, so don’t be too critical.
Click for the live version (ShiVa web player required)
ShiVa SFX Xmas Tree
I think I’ll call it “Unemployed Depressed Elf Drinks Alone On Xmas Day Accompanied By Cat”
As done as it’ll get this time around, not enough processing power to ward off editing frustration. All created in Blender apart from using Arial on the calendar. 1000 sample Cycles render. I may post a “how I did this” soon.
Click for larger image.
WTF have I done?
Well hey if you’ve been paying attention, I’ve released 4 games… that’s a lot! I’ve also released an EP, submitted a very in depth tutorial and solved a bunch of problems for my fellow ShiVa devs. But am I in a better place?
Financially, no. But who cares about that… well it would be nice to be able to feed myself I can tell you during this year of full-time dev’ing I’ve become extremely proficient with ShiVa and tbh I love it more every time I work on something new. I definitely made the right choice with the engine regardless of the parent companies’ legal problems. ShiVa lives! And I can’t wait to see version 2. The community may be small, but all of the guys I know who work with it are avid and I can only see the application and community growing. All good, all good.
Blender-wise, I am similar. I’ve progressed very far since last year and my knowledge of it has increased dramatically. I know I’m not a fantastic artist, but my application knowledge is nearing expert level in many areas. There is still plenty to learn. Like anything one may learn, someone is always better than you, and that’s great because there’s always someone else to learn from I really should be practicing visual “art” as much as possible, but there are only so many hours in the day, and I find myself obsessed with any project I’m working on, learning only what I need to to get it out. ( to to )
What’s happening next? I have a very big project in the works, but I am broke-as. So next I need to find an income, realllll bad. I have a lot of confidence in my unannounced project and honestly I am a little pissed at myself for not switching projects 3-4 months ago when I was considering ditching the bears project to get this happening. If I *had* done that I’d have something to publicly show by now and could be submitting something for funding. 20/20 hindsight. However! I finished the bears game, it’s out, and that is something I should be proud of, no matter the result.
So have I shown you anything good, have I proven myself? If anyone’s been paying attention then yes, they would be able to see that I’m definitely a “finisher”. Always room for improvement, but jeez look at what I’ve made in a year.
Next up, I’m working on a high quality still in Blender that may give a better impression of what I’m capable of, instead of my tiny little game pieces. After that I’m going to finish this big-ass project to the point where I can get an attractive funding submission together. People will notice. You’ll go “mannnnnn that’s cool”, and maybe someone will send me a dollar or two.
Enjoy your work Best advice: Finish something.
Hiya,
Some publicly displayed work I have created that I’ve neglected to post here
Blender work, a time-lapse of my troll model being created:
Katana model for a new unannounced game I’ve been working on for some months. Cycles render (and a hasty one at that!).
A shotgun model I created as a prop for a Blender still (unfinished). Cycles render.
