Fam Does Visuals

And here it is moving, obviously had to render in EEVEE because I'm not made of money. Gotta admit it was fun making this one but I really suffered with the material here, it got a bit unmanageable towards the end.

The whole thing is done almost completely procedurally (only the HDRI lighting is an actual image), the spikes are made by first "spherifying" a plane in geo-nodes and then adding a funky cosine displacement on top of that, following the normals, that was mostly painless.

Gotta be honest with you chat, I don't like how this one turned out, plus it was a pain to render... Anyway I learned a lot about instances at least 🫪

An unfortunate moment captured in the dark and cold halls of Stella Montis. At least the two of us remaining made it out in one piece.

Fr tho, I had a lot of fun creating the post-processing pipeline for this one and compositing all the aberrations, and best of all it's super reusable!

Another thing I'm dabbling into is video game photography, inspired by this video. I try to keep the process as photographic as possible. So I'm using gamescope to capture the screenshots in as high resolution as my computer can handle, in HDR. Then I use Darktable to process the image the same way I would an actual RAW file, export it, use Comfy to upscale it using three different methods, then GIMP to grab the best details of each upscale, and finally I have a pipeline in Blender to reconstruct the noise the upscalers may have destroyed. I am actually pretty happy with the results here.

The game, by the way, is ARC Raiders (same as the video), and the map is Buried City. I will be trying some other games after processing the batch of photos I took in ARC.

Well, let's kick this off by posting this wallpaper I made as part of a study on geometry nodes (trying to get back on my Blender bs here).

Tbh I'm not 100% happy with the colors, but I told myself I'm just gonna leave things be and just put them out there.

The shapes themselves are made entirely out of math (geo nodes) and lit by a rotated HDRI, it was post-processed in Blender (twice, once after render, another with a noise thing I made), and then the colors were adjusted in Darktable.

Here's the node setup for the shape, if you're interested, it's super basic, I'm just trying to learn this new (old) thing.

Full 4K resolution image available here.