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Taylor
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I am Taylor. I am a programmer who mostly uses Rust, C++, Ruby, Python, Lua, and JavaScript at work, and work intermittently in roughly a dozen other languages […]

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[3D rendered image of drug capsules]

Wanted to see if I could make convincing capsules. I'm pretty happy with the way this looks. For some reason, Cycles gives some weird colors on the faces when I crank up my noise textures. I think it has something to do […]

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A 3D rendering of many multi-colored drug-containing capsules. The capsules have an opaque half and a transparent half, revealing clusters of tiny white pellets within. They are scattered on a partially reflective white surface. A 3D rendering of many multi-colored drug-containing capsules. The capsules have an opaque half and a transparent half, revealing clusters of tiny white pellets within. They are piled upon a partially reflective white surface, and look to be mid-fall, partially bouncing on each other.
September 26, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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This technique here is so simple, but really gives some pretty renders: https://mas.to/@curtisjamesholt/114975997850833990

I've also duplicated the studio setup for this, which I intend to reuse in the future. I've never put enough effort into creating […]

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A 3D rendering of panes of prismatic glass floating over a black void. The glass reflects and refracts blue, pink, purple, black, and white. There is a bloom effect, making the glass seem to glow.
August 7, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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A rendition of this cute piece by @spilledpixel@spilledpixel@mastodon.social . I've had my eye on this one for a long time.

Took probably about 5 hours altogether. I tried arranging it with some pieces of furniture, but they were either too realistic and […]

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A 3D rendering of a small stylized dinosaur closed in a glass bottle with a cork stopper, standing on a bed of sand. The dinosaur is surrounded by small leafy flowering plants. The background is a rocky desert. The dinosaur is shaped like a cute, stubby-legged brontosaurus, but with pink plates along its back like a stegosaurus. It has two heart-shaped plates on the top of its head over its large black eyes. It has blue skin with pale blue spots along the flank.
August 1, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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Made a #blender rendition of this piece by @evansky_arts@mastodon.social: https://mastodon.social/@evansky_arts/114886154370491434

Took me about 5 hours so far. Very much about this is unfinished. The lighting effect in the sky is too smooth and not […]

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A 3D render of a white python on a tree branch staring up at the moon. The moon illuminates a night sky behind it. Below and around the python are clouds and Chinese paper lanterns.
July 22, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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@btp@fosstodon.org Misskey and forks have a "Defederate" button that disables federation on a note-by-note basis. It still can be public, but not visible externally. Check out this defederated note that I just made. You can look at it, but you can't interact […]

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A screenshot of a Sharkey post dialog for this note, with the mouse hovering over the "Defederate" button. A screenshot of the defederate dialog, showing the text "Really disable federation?" and "Even if defederated, posts will continue to be public unless set otherwise. You usually do not need to do this." Buttons below the text are "Disable", "Disable (Don't show again)", and "Cancel".
July 10, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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I don't like or use #windows anymore, but I did always like these cool #wallpapers, and always wanted to make one of my own.

This is made in #blender with #luxcorerender, though the caustics are subtle enough that #cycles probably would have done a good […]

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A 3D Rendering of a Microsoft Windows logo floating over a grey floor. The logo is made of red, green, blue, and yellow glass, throwing colored light onto the floor beneath it. The glass has a wavy bend to it.
July 1, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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A picture of Peter Parker from Spider Man 2 holding a stack of pizzas. The captions read "sometimes pizza times it sometimes it sometimes it sometimes pizza times pizza".
June 21, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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A picture of a cow in the ocean, with the caption "I am cringe, but I am free"
June 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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WIP Floppy disk in #blender. This is about 2 hours of work so far.

#blender3d #3dart #hardsurfacemodeling #floppydisk
A 3D rendering of a floppy disk. It has a jewel housing, with a turquoise clear case around the magnetic disk. the background is a plain grey.
June 2, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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Another rendering with #luxcore in #blender. This applies #caustics to the bottom of a pool and records the animation of the Ocean physics.

I wanted to record it from above, but I couldn't figure out how to get the light paths to show through the […]

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A very simple model of a pool, with rough, wavy water on top. The entire scene is grey, with no texturing applied.
May 26, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Playing with #luxcore caustics and volumetric scattering. I have no idea what I'm doing, but the effect is really interesting. I'm planning on doing a water-heavy scene in the future, so I might have to mess with LuxCore soon. It having its own full set of […]

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A 3D render of a glass of red wine with a spotlight shining on it. The light refracts through the glass, shining a crescent of light beyond its shadow. The glass radiates beams of red light in all directions.
May 26, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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Always kind of wanted to make a #cycles camera obscura in #blender. Was kind of tough getting everything arranged right, and to get the pinhole the right size, but the result is interesting. It was a fun little experiment. I could get much better results by […]

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A rendering of a camera obscura projection made in Blender. A colored screen-capture of the camera obscura set-up scene. An x-ray view of the camera obscura set-up scene.
May 24, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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Made myself a new wallpaper. Pretty happy with how it came out.

The blend file doesn't include the background exr, because it's kind of big. This is the source if you want to have the whole thing.

#blender #blender3d #3dart #art #abstractart #wallpaper
A 3D rendering of a grid of crystal button-like truncated pyramids. They reflect light from an unseen window off-frame, showing trees and window frames in the reflection. They rest upon a ridged surface that is lightly reflective.
May 23, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Just a simple still life. Wood textures, plant+vase, and chair were taken from Poly Haven, which is a fantastic resource.

#blender #blender3d #3dart #stilllife #table #chair #window #3dmodelling
A 3D rendering of a still life scene. A wooden table sits in the corner of a room, with two chairs pulled up underneath it. The leftmost chair, closest to the viewer, is pulled out slightly. A grassy field is outside a window on the wall above the table. The window lets in a glow of daylight, illuminating two drinking glasses on the table, and letting a potted, green-leafed plant cast a shadow against the wall at the corner of the table. The wall is lightly textured, as if painted with a carpeted roller brush, and the floor beneath is composed of wooden planks.
May 5, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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@btp@fosstodon.org What, you're telling me you're not amped for a Spongebob Squarepants vs Hatsune Miku MTG face-off?
A Hatsune Miku Magic the Gathering Enchantment card. A Twitter post from the Magic the Gathering account announcing a Spongebox Squarepants x Secret Lair set.
April 26, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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Very slowly learning rigging and weight painting. I think I'm happy enough to leave this one be for now and move onto the next thing. There are a lot of mistakes here and it took me far longer than it should have, but I'm happy enough with it. I really need […]

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A 3D render of Marina from Splatoon 2. She has purple and grey tentacles that end in glowing turquoise tips. She's wearing a leather crop top with an oversized zipper in the middle, glowing green tentacles, leather fingerless gloves, leather boots, strange ridged shorts, and glowing turquoise leggings. Her fingertips are also glowing turquoise. She has light brown skin, and turquoise and pink eyes. She is giving the sign of the horns with her left hand, and her right hand rests on her hip. The background is a photo of some stone tiles and metal railings. A 3D render of Marina from Splatoon 2 in a black void, showing her fingers, tentacles, and pants glowing in the dark. She is giving the sign of the horns with her left hand, and her right hand rests on her hip.
February 6, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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A Creature sculpt that I made for a #dungeonsanddragons session. This creature is strongly inspired by Dead Hand from Zelda. My friend who has a 3D printer and who is into mini painting printed it out and painted it for me. My party is going up against it […]

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A digital sculpture of a monster. It is an armless torso standing upon 6 muscular, veiny arms, each with two joints. The creature has a long, skeletal neck, ending at an eyeless and earless head, with empty eye sockets and a gaping mouth with over-long flattened teeth. A painted 3D printed mini-figure of the previously-described monster. It has red and blue veins all over it. Another angle of the 3D printed minifigure.
February 2, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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Been working on #marina from #splatoon2. This is probably about a dozen hours in so far, and not completely done yet. Still need more work on the boots, headphones, eyes, and then rigging. I hope to be done by the end of this week and start on a new project […]

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A 3D render of Marina from Splatoon 2. She has purple and grey tentacles that end in glowing turquoise tips. She's wearing a leather crop top with an oversized zipper in the middle, glowing green tentacles, leather fingerless gloves, leather boots, strange ridged shorts, and glowing turquoise leggings. Her fingertips are also glowing turquoise. She has light brown skin, and turquoise and pink eyes. The background is a photo of a pier. A 3D render of Marina from Splatoon 2 in a dark box, showing all of her glowing parts casting light on the surrounding room. Most of her features are dark, other than the glowing tentacles, fingertips, headphones, and leggings.
January 23, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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Not really proud of this one, but I put a bunch of hours into it and want to set it aside for now. I might return to it to add hair curves to the eyebrows and eyelashes, refine the clothes, rig it, and maybe add some effects.

I made a cool material for the […]

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A 3D rendering of Kumatora from Mother 3. She is standing in an A-pose, wearing a blue and lavender dress, pink boots, and has pink hair and white skin. She is in front of a grey backdrop. A close-up 3D render of an eye. The eye is cyan with a yellow starburst in the middle, and fades to black around the edges.
December 31, 2024 at 9:54 PM