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Noel Ruppenthal
Jun 131 min read
Architect Chairs
This semester's Visual Communications II course introduced students to Sketchup. The first assignment was to re-create a chair designed...
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Noel Ruppenthal
May 81 min read
Semester 1 Complete
I've made it successfully through the first semester of Algonquin College's Architectural Technician program, with high grades. Albeit...
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Noel Ruppenthal
Jan 91 min read
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...
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Noel Ruppenthal
Nov 28, 20231 min read
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...
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Noel Ruppenthal
Aug 29, 20231 min read
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, 20231 min read
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....
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Noel Ruppenthal
Mar 14, 20221 min read
Piranha Emissives
Working out the emissives (glowy bits) of the Piranha - class
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Noel Ruppenthal
Mar 8, 20221 min read
Piranha
I started a new model of the Hyperbeing Dominion's Piranha-class corvette in Blender this week. Just now finished skinning/panelling,...
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Noel Ruppenthal
Feb 3, 20221 min read
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...
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Noel Ruppenthal
Feb 3, 20221 min read
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...
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Noel Ruppenthal
Nov 13, 20201 min read
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...
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Noel Ruppenthal
Jan 8, 20201 min read
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...
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Noel Ruppenthal
Jan 8, 20201 min read
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...
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Noel Ruppenthal
Jan 8, 20201 min read
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...
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Noel Ruppenthal
Sep 22, 20191 min read
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...
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Noel Ruppenthal
Sep 20, 20191 min read
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...
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Noel Ruppenthal
Sep 14, 20191 min read
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...
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Noel Ruppenthal
Nov 6, 20181 min read
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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