Adventures across the 3rd dimension

I think I might be close to finished with my yeti...

 

Just a carrot missing...

I like the clumpiness of that. When I tried to mess with those settings in Blender it didn't look very good at all.

And there may (or may not) be a carrot in the frames I'm still rendering in the background.

(I've managed to get through 170 whilst failing to do a painting. )

After finally rendering that animation I thought I'd take the opportunity to download and install Blender 3.0.
Without realising I inadvertently installed it over my previous old copy of Blender 2.7.
But I don't use that anyway. I just kept it on my hard disk cos that version still had the game engine that's been removed from more recent versions. Not that I used the game engine either. It was just nostalgia that kept me hanging on to it.
Anyway, Blender 3.0 is now installed and... it's strangely slower than I expected.
It now takes several seconds to compile the shaders in the viewport and a quick Eevee render took six seconds longer than the same frame in 2.83. On the plus side Cycles seems a little quicker and it works with my Yeti hair now.
But after loading in my Orc model, the transparent eye layer didn't work with Eeevee.
Don't know why. I never do know such things.

Will probably stick with the separately installed 2.83 version for the time being but at least the new one is there when I want to experiment.

*sneeze*

I've been playing about with sculpting on my tablet recently with the Nomad app and it's surprisingly good....

 

It has a lot more functionality than I'd expect, even some things that Blender doesn't have.

Blender videos are being watched again.

Hmm, Eevee doesn't do indirect emissive lighting.
And that baked light probe thingy looks a little complicated.

And Cycles is sooo slow, especially with volumetric stuff.

More videos!

Been a while since I did any 3D. But I like how simple the stuff I make is. No rendering and stuff at all, really...

I certainly wouldn't say your stuff was "simple". All that poly modelling is so technical that I struggle to even know where to start. Pulling and squishing things in sculpt mode requires much less knowledge and skill.