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Noel Ruppenthal
- Jun 13
- 1 min
Architect Chairs
This semester's Visual Communications II course introduced students to Sketchup. The first assignment was to re-create a chair designed...
Noel Ruppenthal
- May 8
- 1 min
Semester 1 Complete
I've made it successfully through the first semester of Algonquin College's Architectural Technician program, with high grades. Albeit...
Noel Ruppenthal
- Jan 9
- 1 min
Architectural Technician
Today I will have my first class in a new college program I'm starting. In evaluating my career path, I identified housing as the most...
Noel Ruppenthal
- Nov 28, 2023
- 1 min
Hexacosichoron Gaming
A few weeks ago I decided to take on the challenge of modelling a 4-Dimensional 600-Cell geometric shape in blender. Many years ago I...
Noel Ruppenthal
- Aug 29, 2023
- 1 min
Naghafti Raider
Giving my alien raider some attention. The overall form is pretty much figured out, but I still have a lot of greebling I'd still like...
Noel Ruppenthal
- Aug 27, 2023
- 1 min
Piranha Volumetric FX
Returning after about a year to modelling this ship, I've started figuring more of the FX to go with it, including thrusters and shields....
Noel Ruppenthal
- Mar 14, 2022
- 1 min
Piranha Emissives
Working out the emissives (glowy bits) of the Piranha - class
Noel Ruppenthal
- Mar 8, 2022
- 1 min
Piranha
I started a new model of the Hyperbeing Dominion's Piranha-class corvette in Blender this week. Just now finished skinning/panelling,...
Noel Ruppenthal
- Feb 3, 2022
- 1 min
Cosmoquest Community After Hours
When I first saw the Community After Hours logo for Cosmoquest's Friday evening twitch streams, it immediately made me think of Andrew...
Noel Ruppenthal
- Feb 3, 2022
- 1 min
Astronomy Cast TV Intro
About a year ago, Dr. Pamela Gay asked me to edit together an intro for New Media's tv broadcast of Astronomy Cast. This was assembled...
Noel Ruppenthal
- Nov 13, 2020
- 1 min
More Spaceships in Blender
Inspired by Andrew Price and Adam Savage, I've entered another wave of spaceship model-making and rendering in Blender. The amount of...
Noel Ruppenthal
- Jan 8, 2020
- 1 min
Koffee!
This morning while preparing my coffee, I had the inspiration to finally draw this idea I've had kicking around in my head. Took about 3...
Noel Ruppenthal
- Jan 8, 2020
- 1 min
Cosmoquesters
I am a part of the Cosmoquest / Weekly Space Hangout community. Cosmoquest is a citizen science project led by Dr. Pamela Gay, who is a...
Noel Ruppenthal
- Jan 8, 2020
- 1 min
Sword Swing Rough Animation
A skill I rediscovered recently has inspired me to explore traditional animation using pen and tablet. The following gif was made in...
Noel Ruppenthal
- Sep 22, 2019
- 1 min
More renders!
Since my last post, I've continued work on the Battlecarrier. I've played with blender's volumetrics to get the engine glow close to...
Noel Ruppenthal
- Sep 20, 2019
- 1 min
Playing with Compositing in Blender 2.81
Work in progress starship rendered using lens distortion chormatic abberation, and several glare effects. All introduced to me by...
Noel Ruppenthal
- Sep 14, 2019
- 1 min
Character Creation in Blender
First off I am terrible at maintaining blogs Second, I've finally made some progress on a 3D character build in Blender 2.8! With help...
Noel Ruppenthal
- Nov 6, 2018
- 1 min
Site Launch!
Welcome to my new Octachoron Digital portfolio website. Until recently my only page had been a long-neglected blog started as an...