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...
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Noel Ruppenthal
- Aug 27
- 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...
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