Theanine3D 🍵

My new Blender addon can import 3D models from the DCv2, GC, and BB versions of Phantasy Star Online. Check it out!

My newest world for VRChat - Nisan from Xenogears, remastered with new lighting and upscaled textures.

Check out my new VRChat world - Yoshi Garden 🌷🦖

My 3D / VR art tribute to the Yoshi series‚ featuring a stylized look reminiscent of the artstyle in Yoshi's Island. In this world, you'll find a ferris wheel‚ various hangout spots, a giant dancing flower (that you can ride on!)․ You can also check out the movie theater inside Kamek's castle where you can watch YouTube videos with your friends. There's also an Avatar Fort where you can get a free Yoshi avatar (in multiple colors!) Lastly, don't forget to check out the view from a hot air balloon flying around a 3D recreation of Yoshi's Island․ Have fun!

I recently finally reached the rank in VRChat that allows me to publish worlds publicly. I've had my account for almost a decade, so I've been waiting for a LONG time for this! Now I can finally start publishing more of my projects on that platform. These are the ones I've made public so far, with more coming in the future.

A House on the Hill

PSO Seabed

PSO Ruins 3

Pokemon Gold/Silver - Azalea Town

Around six months ago, I began porting Kingdom Hearts (PS2) areas to Source Engine (and more specifically, to Garry's Mod). So far, I've done Destiny Islands, Halloween Town, Hollow Bastion, and Traverse Town (the most recent one). They all feature enhanced modernized lighting that I baked in Blender, along with upscaled textures. You can check them out (for free!) by clicking here. Note that Garry's Mod has (optional) VR support, so you can also experience these in VR!

My goal with these projects is to showcase what my Blender addons can do. The following Blender addons made these projects possible:

Come celebrate the Mexican holiday, Dia de Los Muertos, in this colorful handpainted virtual world ✨💀🌺 NOW OPEN to visitors on HTC VIVERSE! Check it out - it's free!

AudioSurf 2 - Kirby Skin

This is my first-ever skin for AudioSurf 2, and it's based on the Kirby series! Get it for free on the Steam Workshop below:

Custom Map for Team Fortress 2

Get the addon on the Steam Workshop

Preview of the spawn rooms in my (WIP) Saturn Valley map for TF2.

Here are some of the latest development updates for my Saturn Valley map for TF2.

-There is now a 3D Tessie lurking in the water, and he emerges whenever there's no one nearby. If you approach and get close, he quickly dunks back under the water.

I got my Mr. Saturn models into the map now, fully animated. And I added a hat as an optional $bodygroup in the model which I can toggle on/off. I plan to add multiple skins for the hat, not just the Ness colors, so people can try to find all the different varieties hidden in the map as little easter eggs.

Preview of a TF2 map that I've been working on, based on Saturn Valley from EarthBound. Still very early. I just started adding the ladders. This is just half the map. I'm creating the RED team's half of the map first, then I'll be duplicating and mirroring it for BLU.

Some very unfortunate news was announced yesterday by Mozilla. As part of the efforts of the new CEO, Mozilla will be downsizing and refocusing the company's efforts on Firefox and AI. The Hubs team is unfortunately one of the teams at Mozilla now slated to lose their jobs.

If you're familiar with my work, you'll know that I've depended on Mozilla Hubs for many of my projects these past 5 years. I've been creating on the platform since it first became available to the public. Hubs has been my favorite content creation platform to date. It's got the easiest workflow for 3D artists that use Blender, thanks to its dedicated (and very powerful) Blender addon. No other social 3D / VR / webXR platform has come close to Hubs in terms of ease of use, flexibility, and artist-friendliness for me. It truly is a special piece of tech. I even used it with great success last year to showcase artwork created by my 3D art students, a gallery that will now be going offline as well.

Because of all that, news of it shutting down has hit me pretty hard. A lot of my publicly available online VR worlds are now slated to disappear in the near future. Although Hubs is open source and its code will still remain available for many years to come for anyone who wants to self-host it, that just isn't possible for me. I don't make money from my VR projects (making them purely out of love for the hobby and/or source material), and I basically live paycheck to paycheck. I did attempt Patreon a few years back, but it sadly never took off.

So I guess this is my announcement that my VR worlds, too, are going to go offline within the next year. Please enjoy them while you can. 🥹

Super Mario Galaxy VR Tribute