Rugnar Stengo's Workblog

This is my first attempt in creating something grimdark or horror related. My main inspiration for this render was the tabletop game Trench Crusade, in particular the armies of Hell like the Black Grail and the Seven-Headed Serpent. Since the Seven Deadly Sins lords are a thing there, I’ve started to imagine an army related to the Leviathan, but after seeing the first official artwork of the Naval Raiders I was like: “…ok, let’s stick with just one character instead and see where it goes ^^; ”. The idea behind this character was quite simple: what if a fish “grew” inside a human body? So here it is, a cultist with a fish body that’s starting to tear his human skin apart while giving his speech to an invisible audience.

Aside from the skeleton (which is a model I’ve downloaded from Sketchfab), everything else you see here is modeled from the ground by myself on Blender and then edited on GIMP. Maybe I could have added something more to the scene, but it could also be my impression since I’ve actually focused more on the character than the rest.

Feel free to leave a comment or some advice! I’m always looking for ways to improve!

"Who the hell are you?!" "The brightest star under the celestial vault: ROCKSTAR FIGHTER!"

It took me a whole month, but here it is: the first character model I actually share on the Internet! To make this I actually used the Blender base human model as the core, retopologize around it to create the character you're seeing here, rigged it and then balanced the weight. It was more an exercise of these techniques, but it came out pretty decently. Next time, I hope to share with you a character created from scratch.

As for who is this guy: his name is Rockstar Fighter, but his real identity is that of Kaito Nakamura. In the past he was a less known member of a Super Sentai team known as Astra Fighter, now he left the group to pursuit a boring desk job for a bank. He was a character I played during an absurd Fabula Ultima oneshot, but his background really inspired him. This whole character is a huge reference of super sentai and action movies. Try to guess which are!

"We're good at drawing lines through the spaces between stars like we're pattern-finders, and we'll find patterns and we like really put our hearts and minds into it and even if we don't mean to. So I believe in a Universe that doesn't care and people who do." -Angus Delaney

After streaming Night In The Woods on a Discord server I felt like making a second fanart dedicated to this game, and since I'm more than comfortable working with Blender I chose to use the program to recreate one of my favorite scenes from this game.

Everything in this render is recreated in 3D (with the help of references), but what I'm really happy with is how the night sky turned out. I've made it with no tutorial and adding some noise shaders on the sky in order to recreate the reddish clouds and an emission shader to make brighter white dots.

With that being said, I highly recommend playing Night In The Woods: it's a visual novel masked as a graphic adventure which mixes the slice of life genre with mystery story, and around the story there are important social themes like how the passing of time changes most things. Give it a shot!

CREDITS:

I've discovered the existence of this trend in making where you make a comparison between different the pre-rendered animation and the final render... so why not make one myself? I've completely made up this landscape by myself, although I've looked up to different tutorials like the ones on particles and geometry nodes. In particular, I've been making different attempts at making a planet. Let me know in the comments what you think about it and where to improve!

Woah, another model released so early after the last one? Yes... but this one took me months instead of weeks ^^;

See, this map was for another TTRPG campaign on a game called Not The End, on which I was the Master instead of a player. I've created this world collectively with the other players, each adding what they wanted to play. The result? A dieselpunk world set on a floating city after an apocalyptic event. I'm so happy how this campaign turned out.

As for why it took me months to complete, even after the campaign's end... the file was too big for my computer to render even a part of it, so I screenshotted the rings separately and edited them on Gimp. Even the fires coming from the reactors are made on Gimp.

With that said and done, this is one of the model I'm incredibly proud of, and I'm starting to think I could do MORE complex models and landscape. Maybe with a few less polygons than usual ^^;

This model took me only one and a half week to complete... but I had to wait a little longer before revealing it.

Since last year I've been playing the longest TTRPG campaign I've ever played on Fabula Ultima, a game which pays tributes to the JRPG videogames. There's a lot I've got to say about this campaign (which is stil ongoing, by the way), but all I can say is that the character I used to play sacrificed himself at the end of the first part and now I have a brand new character in it... which can also pilot this barrel mecha named Blackbeerd :P

I am SO happy with how it turned out in the end. The only parts that troubled me the most, as you can see from the GIF, were the feet and the hands. ESPECIALLY the hands. I was never happy with how they looked, but the final design I've come up with are acceptable!

This one has been sitting in my folder for a few years now, but I've never shared it on my social medias.

Meet C0-S0, a C-series Astromech Droid on the run!

That's right, this is the first model I've created on Blender that's not a building or an item (actually there's another one, but I haven't release it to the public yet, but this one is the first I release).

It "only" took me about a month to complete it, yet I still need to correct it's rig skeleton in order to animate it. For now, I'm proud of the final result and I didn't use many tutorials to make it.

What else can I say if not...

Helm of the Desert

It is said that this helm once belonged to a scholar who came from another world… but you don't look so interested in knowing it's deepest secrets, do you? Sigh, fine. Just take it and be on your way. Kids these days…

It is with my greatest pleasure that I can announce this brand new mod for the videogame A Hat In Time! This is the first time I've done something like this and I'm extremely excited about it!

This hat is based both on Dark Souls' Royal Helm and on the trademark of one of the most famous content creators and videogame popularizer in Italy: Sabaku no Maiku, aka Mike of the Desert. And now you can also wear it, with instant availability!

I'd like to thank Starschulz, the author of Setting up a Hat flair - Tutorial, which is the guide that helped me setting up the model and bring it inside the game. And special thanks to CapitanoGhost for helping and teaching me how to bake a proper texture and normal map. If it wasn't for his help, this mod might have taken more time to finish.

More progress with Blender, more miniatures for a fictitious tabletop game! After the tower, I've created a little medieval fort. It took me something like 20 hours in total to create it, but for most of it I did it without looking up for any tutorial or using reference. With the exception of the texture painting, the shading and the walls around the four towers, it was all done without any kind of help.

It's been a while since I've done any animation exercise. I don't know if I'll be able to upload more of these on a regular basis, but I've been missing doing this.

This animation is based on an episode of Horrible Histories starring roman emperor Caligula and mixed it with Among Us, "talking about suspiciously" :P My main interest for this animation was to get the timing right in 24 frames per seconds, with a huge help from the Keyframe VLC script. It's not particularly fluid, but I'm satisfied with the result nonetheless. The lighting was the real problem, though, since the map I used was incredibly dark.

Any criticisms and tips are welcome!

CREDITS:

-The Skeld map: ferretium;

-Among Us character model: Okamical;

Well... I had fun with Impostor Factory's AU Playbook and made a short crossover meme out of it :P

But seriously, I highly suggest playing the Freebird Games, they're all very touching.

This is a series of posters I made for an RPG campaign based on Fate Core which I took part almost a year ago. It was the first RPG campaign after many years that I played one, and also the first system that I've played online and that it's not D&D or Pathfinder. The plot was created as we were playing, since the whole setting, worldbuilding and genres are all colectively written down during many session 0s, ending up with a steampunk world that resemble Bioshok Infinite with Kaijus and conspiracies. Oh, and also wibbly-wobbly... timey-wimey... stuff. :P

It's been a fun journey, and it also drove me to try out the many varieties of TTRPGs that exist out there. Oh, if you're wondering which of these characters in the one I've played as, well, that would be the grumpy old man with the white moustaches. His name is Reginald Tenneton, police officer by day, contract assassin by night, who wants to retire from his official job and quit the other infamous one by completing one final task, while also feeling the weight of regret.

If you want to know more about this campaign, feel free to ask. I'd be glad to tell you all the details, if you want!

CREDITS:

-Norpo's Team Fortress 2 Steampunk Characters models: All the credits are on the links in the name;

-TF2 Universe Octopus model: UltramanUltimo;

-WoW Ship: Alliance Transport Ship model: Blizzard (original), Thundery Steak (porting);

-[Bioshock Infinite]Weapon Pack: Irrational Games (original), Nikeon (porting);

-Plague Doctor model: All the credits are on the link in the name;

-1940s Spy model: やめろ!! ;

-Swanky desert road [SFM] map: Zatemedek;

-Manor Rooms map: Chris;

- TF2 Little Jack model: Rebaccus.

I'm starting to get the hang of Blender. This plushie model is supposed to be the "chibi" version of my persona, but it's not complete yet: it's imperfect and the rig doesn't work quite well. So think of it as a prototype version for what I have in mind.

So... recently I started to learn how to work with Blender. Initially I wanted to use it as an alternative to Adobe After Effects, but after following a tutorial covering the bases of this program... well, we can say I went a little overboard with my previous intentions ^^;

So I began creating this model to see how good I became with the program after a month spent following tutorial, and for this I've decided to create the miniature of a tower meant for a tabletop game or a strategy game... and honestly? I think it came out pretty good, all things considered! Of course, for some things I stopped and looked for specific tutorials about (like the archway and the door), but then I've assimilated these lessons and used them for creating additional models on my own. I might get back to work on it and improve it, but for now I consider it complete.

Feel free to tell me what you think about and, if you have any suggestions or a tutorial to check out, do not hesitate to hit me up!

Just a little comic I made for fun. I love Cuphead and “Tenacious D In the pick of Destiny”, so why not make a crossover out of one of my favourite parts of the movie?:P

I also took it as an opportunity to try out a comic page style. There might be something I could improve on, but overall I’m satisfied with the final result.

CREDITS:

-Cuphead and Mugman models: Pipann;

-The Devil model: SAB64 (creator), Source AniMaker (porting);

Just a little animation test I did for practice, inspired by this video and, subsequently, by the original videoclip it originates from. As always, I used Source Filmmaker for the animation, lighting and green screen positioning, while the visual effects are made on Vegas Movie Pro 15.

Let me know what you think about it and if there’s something I could have done to make it better!

CREDITS:

-Karkat model: @babyfawnlegs​;

-White Void map: Rantis;

- The PGSB (aka Personal GreenScreen Bubble) model: Pte Jack.