Sign In
Sign in
English

TopBanners19061701.jpg   

June 21, 2019, 5:30 PM

by Editor in Chief
 
Check out an ingenious way to animate tentacles this week's winner has introduced!

How, then, can you too qualify for this award? Please have in mind that this award is reserved for those that are on par with or that excel top-notch works published by artists and studios. If such work does not appear during a given week, this award is not being given to anyone. So please submit your best work to www.blenderartist.org or to the Member's Gallery of this site, or Contact Us to show where your work is available on the internet. It doesn't have to be a Blender render, internal or Cycles. Any other render engine is fine as long as Blender was used as a part of your workflow.

So, it is with great pleasure that www.BlenderNews.org introduces to you the winner of the Render of the Week Award for the week of June 17, 2019: Alan Owen.

Title: "Hydra"
Genre: Modeling
Renderer: Cycles

Final Render: 
ROTWA190617.jpg

Making-of 
BWMO1917.gif
      
Artist's Comments
About Me: 
I’m a web interactive coder by trade, but have always wanted to somehow ‘do 3d’. Historically that was impossible because of the cost of industry standard tools, and I chose the wrong educational track to do that in a standard way!
My first use of Blender was back at version 2.2; I used it intermittently over the next decade, but in recent years have been going ‘all in’ to improve my output.

About "Hydra:"
I wanted to work hard to achieve a level on par with the excellent art I see daily in the Blender community. I also wanted to realize an ‘odd’ vision and obscure mood somehow. An octopus hung up like a spider plant in a vase seemed to fit the bill!
There were a few interesting problems too: wrapping rope around a surface, getting glass ‘right’, and a process to arrange the tentacles. This last point took a lot of attempts, but eventually I got a nice workflow established using a simple curve modifier.

Related LInks:

1. https://blenderartists.org/t/hydra/1156877

2. https://www.artstation.com/inductible


List of Articles
Subject Date Viewssort
Blender Retrospectives 2020 Blender Retrospective Feb 20, 2021 210954
Tutorials Free Online Blender Tutorials Released in 2019 Worthy of Your Note - for Animation & VFX file Jan 25, 2020 563034
Tutorials Free Online Blender Tutorials Released in 2019 Worthy of Your Note - for CG, Games & Viz file Jan 25, 2020 426147
Tutorials Top 12 Free Online Blender Tutorials Released in 2019 file Jan 25, 2020 431886
Tutorials Top 15 Highest-Rated Free Online Blender Tutorials Released in 2019 file Jan 25, 2020 375786
Tutorials Free Online Blender Tutorials Released in 2018 for Blender 2.8 file Jan 23, 2019 344885
Tutorials Free Online Blender Tutorials Released in 2018 Worthy of Your Note - for CG, Games & Viz file Jan 23, 2019 684204
Tutorials Free Online Blender Tutorials Released in 2018 Worthy of Your Note - for Animation & VFX file Jan 23, 2019 408283
Tutorials Top 12 Free Online Blender Tutorials Released in 2018 file Jan 23, 2019 344804
Render of the Year Render of the Year Awards 2018: Winners Annouced file Jan 02, 2019 381561
Blender Retrospectives 2018 Blender Retrospective file Jan 02, 2019 375945
Tutorials Top 12 Free Online Blender Tutorials Released in 2017 file Jan 09, 2018 968891
Blender Retrospectives 2017 Blender Retrospective file Jan 01, 2018 696664
Render of the Year Render of the Year Awards 2017: Winners Annouced file Dec 26, 2017 550644
Tutorials Top 12 Free Online Blender Tutorials (Videos) Released in 2016 file Jan 16, 2017 765315
Blender Retrospectives 2016 Blender Retrospective file Dec 29, 2016 1060201
Render of the Year Render of the Year Awards 2015: Seven Winners Annouced file Jan 20, 2016 790454
Blender Retrospectives 2015 Blender Retrospective file Jan 12, 2016 762163
Tutorials Top 12 Free Online Blender Tutorials Released in 2015 file Jun 26, 2015 805516
Render of the Year Render of the Year Awards 2014: Five Winners Annouced file Jan 02, 2015 813730
Tutorials Top 12 Free Online Blender Tutorials Released in 2014 file Dec 11, 2014 852602
Blender Features BI vs. Cycles vs. Yafaray - an Artist's Observation file Jun 05, 2012 817999
Tutorials Free Online Blender Tutorials Released in 2014 Worthy of Your Note file Dec 09, 2014 538802
Tutorials Free Online Blender Tutorials Released in 2015 Worthy of Your Note file Jun 26, 2015 380046
Tutorials Free Online Blender Tutorials Released in 2016 Worthy of Your Note file Jan 16, 2017 377652