Tac-2 joystick
After borrowing an old Tac2-joystick from a friend, for some retro gaming on my Raspberry Pi…I decided to try and model it in Blender.
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SD-card reader for the Amiga
Helped out a friend with some case design suggestions for his project of building an sd-card reader for the Amiga. Modelled in Blender, which he then brought into Design Spark to somewhat refine and finalize for 3d-print. Here’s a link to the project – where you’ll find code, technical drawings and things related to the …read more
Photogrammetry – part 3
Apart from Meshroom I’ve started using the app display.land which I found a couple of days ago. It does not give you the minute control that the former one provides, but the ease of use is remarkable: Just get out, film an object/environment from various angles for a while…upload it, and let their machines up …read more
Photogrammetry – part 2
More experimenting with photogrammetry. Went out in the woods, took some photos; one set of an old tree stump and another of a rock. Brought them into Meshroom (separately) and generated some highpoly meshes, and with them their textures. Imported these highres-models into Blender where I decimated them quite aggressively, down to lowpoly-versions. Unwrapped the …read more
Photogrammetry
Wanted to try out some photogrammetry; So when out walking the other day, I stopped by a small rock. Walked around it a lap or two, filming it with my smartphone. Back home I extraced images/frames from that video, brought them into Meshroom and let it do it’s magic. Imported the generated mesh into Blender, …read more
HardOps doodle
Tried to familiarize myself with the HardOps-addon for Blender.
Spaceship concept
Been working in Substance Painter the last couple of nights, on the latest spaceship concept. Not all done yet, some smaller details left still…
Mesh in parts
I’m working on a spaceship in Blender, which I plan to texture in Substance Painter. In order to get cleaner texture bakes, I chose to split up the mesh in different parts. This will mostly help out the normal map bake, when in tight spaces where projection errors otherwise might occur.
Concept Vehicle
Continued to work on the concept vehicle from the other night. After some time in Substance Painter, this is what I ended up with. Rendered with IRay.
UV-bonanza
Took up an old project – a concept vehicle – from a while back. The aim is to import it into Substance Painter, to tinker a bit, learning the in’s and out’s of the application. Here you see some prepared uv’s for the model in question. Tried to keep the different islands as logically grouped …read more
Blender 2.8
A couple of nights ago I downloaded the experimental build of Blender 2.8. Mostly to have a look at the status of the new realtime renderer EEVEE, but also to check other stuff that lurks around the corner.
Lowpoly animation
Working at UR resulted in a lot of rigging and animating lowpoly characters. Here are a couple of previews of sequences I made for some of the animals.
VR panoramas online
I just discovered roundme.com – an online service where you can upload panoramas and create virtual tours easily. To try it out, I created a tour using some old panorama renders of my apartment, from an old 3DSMax-scene. We’ll see if I add some more stuff there later on. https://roundme.com/@tobiasniva
Arcade cabinet
Found this old render…when cleaning up my harddrive. It’s a pre-viz of an arcade cabinet we were about to build at my last employer Quickspin.
PAR-30 Spotlight
Fiddled around in Substance Painter. Some maps (normal, ao, curvature) generated from xNormal. Rendered with IRay within Substance Painter. Model is an old doodle from Blender, not really finished.
Money Monster
Watched the movie Money Monster the other night: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2241351/ Got a hit of Blender-abstinence when I saw the show’s backdrop – Money Monster backdrop – and this was the result. Didn’t spend time to find the actual fonts…
niva3d.com – v.2.0.16
Tweaked the theme of this site to better respond to different screen sizes as well as utilizing swiping and zooming in the various galleries.
A tribute
Stumbled upon the works of Peter Engberg and wanted to recreate one of his motifes named “Goda Utsikter”. You can find his work at http://www.peterengberg.se/
Veil Painter
Inspired by the old Flame Painter by Escape Motions, I wanted to try and see if I could make something similar. My take on it – Veil Painter. 🙂
Flashlight
Followed some subd modelling tutorials the other night, and came up with this. Also an exercise in Cycles regarding lighting and materials.
Quixel doodle
After a seminar on Quixel, I downloaded a trial and played around with an old lowpoly model of mine.
Block Squid
Played around with Structure Synth and Blender.
Ice tunnel
Made with Fractal Frost.
To tag, or not to tag…
…that’s the question. I added tags to my posts, to be able to somewhat sort them separate from the overall categories. I made this as a result wanting to link to more specific images when applying for certain jobs. Not sure if I’m keeping this though…
Metallica – Master Of Puppets
Another render in the old-bands-I-used-to-listen-to category.
Shutter
Played around with some linking and parenting in 3DS Max, learning to rig more mechanical objects.
AC/DC
A tribute to the senior citizens of an australian orchestra.
Sketchup / Visualizer test
A test to render a simple Sketchup-scene with the renderer Visualizer. Like Sketchup itself, this renderer is very (I mean VERY) simple to use. Of course with the lack of more detailed control. But for quick tests I think it is really good!
Light and mood labs
I think I saw a similar room in a movie a while ago…so I tried to recreate the lighting and mood in Blender.
Subdivision surface modelling
Some different models made while practicing subd-modelling…
A watch
Another doodle with Blender after a while off the program.
Rubiks cube
A quick modelling exercise in Blender. Rendered with the now more standard Cycles renderer.
Game Of Life
Another late-night-tinkering resulted in this version of Conway´s Game Of Life. If you are on a device that supports flash you can test it here: GameOfLife_WEB.swf
Dying Star
Made in Attractor.
Tangled
Made in my flame fractal application Attractor.
Attractor – an app for making flames
Last couple of nights I tinkered with some flash and math…and ended up writing this application. It takes some parameters and plots a bunch of pixels to screen… If you are on a device that supports flash you can test it here: Attractor_WEB.swf NOTE! The web-version above does not support saving images or presets…so if …read more
New home for Gimbal Games
During the re-design of niva3d.com my pet project Gimbal Games moved to a new home!
Cosmic surf
An image made in my flame fractal application.
The Wall
A test with VRay support for micro displacement as well as hair/grass.
Snake chain
Inspired by a painting my father made in his youth.
Santa Sabina
Another scene made for panorama labs.
General Portion
General Portion – old design. Snuff. Swedish. Very addictive.
The desk
One of my first renders using Strata Studio. Can you name the song which lyrics are written on the peace of paper?
The cell
A test with volumetric light. I admit the result was a bit depressive.
Apartment
A scene I made to test a panoarama viewer. Edit: Added this panorama to my account at roundme.com
Jetbike
A concept of a flying bike. Strata Studio. Mac. Mid 90’s…?
Indago
A viz of another video slot cabinet.
Aerial Screw
A model based on Da Vinci’s sketches of a flying machine.
Viridian
A visiualization of the Viridian cabinets at a former employer.
The Mask
An early modelling doodle from the 3DS Max days.