Blender Sci-Fi Blitz Attempt – Blanchsb

[Shawn Blanch]

I’m thinking this looks like a great place to add the submissions. What do you think @wesburke 

[Shawn Blanch]

Okay I’m definitely not going to make the hour mark lol. I don’t even know sky shaders that well. I’m following along at this point, but I am making my own design choices.  I’m learning a lot just rewatching this at 75% speed. Didn’t know about the camera passerpartout section. That’s pretty cool.

@cbaileyfilm Okay here goes!

For the Sky: I mixed in a voronoi texture with the gradient texture for the input color ramp on the World Node setup. I also made a frame to remind myself later what I am working on in the node editor. (Frame your selection using Shift + P when the Node Wrangler add-on is active).

Nice sand-stormy sky if I do say so myself.

[Shawn Blanch]

Adding some noise and mixing it in a little……I can’t stop myself.

[Shawn Blanch]

Here’s what I have after about 2 hours lol.

[Shawn Blanch]

Here’s after a couple more hours…….. definitely getting the hang of it. I ended up sculpting my own sand hills and trails because I could not get the planes to work the way I wanted them. Looking pretty sick though. I also changed the sky color palette a little.

[Shawn Blanch]

Alright I am calling it quits. Spent all day on Sandykins here and she turned out quite nice.

Okay @wesburke and @cbaileyfilm this is Blanchsb’s Submission
Sandykins

[Shawn Blanch]

Here’s some build-up of how I got my particular look:

Sand Storm Effect – Just a couple of planes with alpha adjustments to the shader made up of mostly noise and voronoi with a mask image this really just some black and white around the worm so he isn’t completely covered, man I love alpha masks!.

Here’s the node setup:

[Shawn Blanch]

The Dunes – Sculpted plane (took about 20 minutes with dynotopo and blob and smooth brush mostly)

Here’s the node setup:

Mixed in some magic with noise and musgrave and then adjusted the mapping node to get the wind-swept sand effect juuuuuuuust right.

[Shawn Blanch]

Last but not least: Here’s Sandykins: I used a curve and got the twist and adjusted individual node’s radius in the N panel for each node vertex on the curve to get a mix between fax and stretched  as she turns around to look up at something.

Here’s the node setup. I’m especially proud of the skin: Lot’s of voronoi mixed with some noise for skin fine texture. Then just adjust mapping scal on the Y direction to make it look a little stretched along her body which makes a cool effect as she turns her body.

[Shawn Blanch]

And it turns out like this when it’s all put together. Huzzah!

[Johan Stenberg]

Nice!

[Shawn Blanch]

Thanks. This was a lot of fun.

[Shawn Blanch]

Oh man I just got a shout out on Blender Sci Fi Blitz episode week 2!
Was sooo excited I grabbed my wife and kids haha. Thanks again.

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