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Resin Pendant Clownfish Necklace!

Sep08
2011 Written by BenFTW

I came up with the idea of this necklace a while ago as an anniversary present for my girlfriend, (around April) and it has taken until now to read up on how to make it and to ACTUALLY make it. The original concept was a necklace pendant that looked like a fish in a bag, but that proved to be almost impossible to make right. I got a little discouraged halfway through when the bag idea didn’t work, but I redesigned it and kept on rolling along. I’m extremely happy with the final result!

If you’d like to make your own, you can check out how I made it here on Instructables!

Once again if you want to see the how it was made pictures, or how to make your own… Go here!

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Stylized Robot (& Planet Effluvium)

Jun19
2011 Written by BenFTW

I returned to the awesome two week work shop at UTA (University of Texas Arlington) that focuses on a new type of digital art for high school students every year. This summer we had the task of coming up with a concept for a 3D world and then creating it. Our group came up with the idea of the Planet Effluvium by an impressive feat of intellectual craftsmanship that can be found halfway down the page in this article on the UTA Newspaper website. I did a lot of the work on this project mostly because nobody else in my group, or really the workshop had used 3D software before. We each made our own robot, and they modeled the buildings for the planet. I modeled the planet as well as a bird and cockroach models to supplement our world. I’m not explaining the back story because it doesn’t make any sense. Just look at the pictures!

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Snazzy New Banner

Jan09
2011 Written by BenFTW

Comparison Image

This is the beginning of well made website banners (No future ones are planned), but in the past all of them have been drawn in Photoshop, and they just didn’t look quite as good as they could have.

But today is a new day! I had one of those drawn banners up, and it did look nice, but I decided to learn how to use Illustrator and the improvements are stunning. I made the background in Photoshop, recycling most of yesterday’s background except for the flower. I replaced the flower with a real sunburst! It looks loads better.

For those that don’t know: Adobe Illustrator is a vector drawing program. The drawings you make are infinitely scalable; they can be resized as large as you like.

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Blast From the Past! Retro 3D Scene

Jan08
2011 Written by BenFTW

I started what is now the final version of this composition right as soon as Christmas break begun and worked on it for a good week or two before slowing down, and I then left it around for a little while. Actually, I left it around until yesterday; when I decided to promptly finish it. If you look at all of the items in this scene, you may notice that they span across three or so decades. This was pretty much intentional, so no need to worry yourself about that.

I haven’t been posting all to much recently, but I will post things that seem relevant and interesting! I have included progress pictures, as well as a 3D scene that I started a couple of months ago, which I scrapped.

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3D Tyrannosaurus Rex

Nov19
2010 Written by BenFTW

This is actually my third Tyrannosaurus to model in 3D, and there isn’t really anything stopping me from making more… I’ve modeled some fun things, but I seem to always go back to dinosaurs. Hope you enjoy this! This is a work in progress. I think. That doesn’t mean it is finished, nor does it mean that it ever will be! But this site doesn’t get that many views. Maybe nobody will notice! But to you couple people that nag me about putting stuff up: This post is for you!

Tyrannosaurus Rex!

Turntable animation:

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