Start/Stop Combo Button
A bandsaw start/stop button in Blender: baking a hi-poly diffuse map onto a low-poly mesh, why sharp corners lost their color, and the Photoshop fix.
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Garden Trellis
A wooden garden trellis modeled in Blender from a catalog design and converted to a single mesh with game-ready textures. Available on CGTrader.
Safety Barrier Video
A product-reveal style animation of the safety barrier model, made in Blender and posted to YouTube.
Safety Barrier
A yellow industrial safety barrier modeled from curves in Blender with a procedural paint material, made for crowded industrial scenes. On CGTrader.
Photogrammetry for Reverse Engineering Machines
Why a photo scan comes first when reverse engineering old equipment, the tape measure mistake that taught the lesson, and a scanned Size 315 fluid drive.
Luggage Cart
A hotel luggage cart modeled in Blender as a more useful companion to the platform truck. Available on CGTrader.
Platform Truck
Back to Blender modeling after a break: a hardware-store platform truck, now on CGTrader.
Hotel Nightstand
A nightstand, lamp and alarm clock modeled on a laptop during a power plant night shift, plus how the Loop Tools loft and twist function works. On CGTrader.
Pressure Gauge
A pressure gauge modeled in SolidWorks, then rebuilt from scratch in Blender because SolidWorks conversions give triangulated meshes with bad face rings.
Residential Oil Tank
A low-poly 275 gallon Granby vertical oil tank modeled in Blender 2.9, with notes on the fill, vent and gauge ports. On CGTrader.