Some weekend learning in Blender - God it has been a while.

 

Blender Gas Giant with Rings and Moons

Procedural Planet with lots of tweaks in nodes. Blender 2.79  #B3D

Apollo Capsule in Blender 3D 2.79 cycles

Space with Blender, hdr thanks to  AntwanFX 

Tesla Logo

Blender Goofing Around

Blender in SpaceX B3D

Blender B3D in SpaceX.
I worked on this for about 20 hours trying different concepts and then starting over and over.  I tried cloud generators, particle systems and other great blender features.  Still needs work as not quite there yet.

Buttons

working my gauge in Blender

a Limbo inspired render #B3D

more from the tea house in Blender3D 2.77

Tea House

Marble Oblique in Blender

Black Hole Ball

Additional work made to my Julius Shulman photo re-interpretation.

I tried to replicate a Julius Shulman photo

I've always like this Julius Shulman photo. I've started this several times but never gotten too far.

Here is the original:

Here is my attempt:

I researched photos taken at this same time and found some color photos that let me work through the color conversion. I will still adjust, every time I look at it I see more things that I can fix.

fun with texture

Fun with particles

Paper bags in candle light at night in Blender 3D 2.72

Candle lit paper bags at night in Blender 3D 2.72

Plastic material test in Blender 3D 2.72 WIP, TEST

B3D Plastic Material Node Setup

Speedometer in Blender 3D 0 - 300

Speedometer 0 to 300 km/h in Blender 2.72

Rocket Staging in Blender 3D 2.72 (WORK IN PROGRESS)

Rocket Staging in Blender 3D 2.72
Earth credit to gavinhoward

Satellite in Blender 2.72

Billiards in Blender 3D 2.72R2

Eye Glasses in Blender 3D 2.71

Eye Glasses Depth of Field Blender 3D 2.71

I did some Blender 3D ‪#‎B3D‬ for a friend who owns a great home-brew supply store in Sparks, Nevada.

Box of Peaches in Blender 2.71

2nd render with added box aging, leafs, lighting, label imperfections.

Initial render without any aging or detail

light rays with color in Blender 2.71

Blender photo interpretation in Blender 2.71 with volumetrics

Original from http://archivoltage.tumblr.com/post/32737316693 I'm not sure what or where this is from.  Working with the new volumetrics light rays.

Ash Tray from my childhood Blender 2.71