With the release of Nvidias new OpenCL drivers, on comes a new age of rendering! Originally rendering was number crunching by the CPU, but CPU’s weren’t made to create high-def imagery, so developers thought of a peice of hardware better suited; the GPU. So the age of GPU based rendering has been born!

This image took 4 MINUTES to render!! In any cpu based renderer this render could take between 20-40 hours!!

Octane renderer is the worlds first GPU based, unbiased, physically based renderer. This renderer has revolutionised rendering as it is 20-30x faster rendering, depending on the GPU! That is the difference between a 32 hour render, and a 5 minute render! Just in case your wondering… THATS AWESOME!

The best graphics card for rendering currently is the gtx260 (my card! )

An exciting new age has dawned!

Octane Renderer Website

Recently I was asked to make a header, for a client, on Etsy. With this project time was spent mainly on the 3D aspect. A few different ideas were tossed around (header on grass?), and a concluding peice of artwork was created. Here are a few screenshots of the setup and so on. 

Blender Screenshot.

 

This was a nice start.

And here is the final product. White as a end gradient worked best with the page. 

FINAL

The Etsy page can be found at: www.janellish.etsy.com 

Estimated project time; 6 hours

These are a few snapshots of the much awaited tutorial in the BGE . In researching the design and techninques for realistic and nice looking GE graphics, I am completing this tutorial on Realism and NICE CGI in the blender game engine, for the learning experience of other blenderheads. Here are a few Snapshots of the soon-arriving tutorial.

 

Another BGE shot.

 

Another nine BGE shot.

Well Here is a small sea life project I fiddled around with for a few hours one Saturday. Just a texture and lighting test.