"Hamakua coast adventure" and a Blenny?

Yesterday we, Josh Martin and Josh Melling went to the

Paauhau landing, that was many years ago used to transport
cargo to and from ships to the land.
he problem was the 100 foot cliffs, so they with lots of work created a landing that utilized a cable car, and some a wickedly dangerous stairs.

We wanted to go down since I, Josh Martin wanted to go and try to catch a fish or two for my reef aquarium.

I have a DLNR license and a net so I was set.

After walking a half mile down from the camp/community of houses,

we made a left then walked through a pasture to the landing.

Lots of old junk, mega sized tires,

old machinery, mechanic's manuals and other things;

remainents from the once booming Hawaiian sugar cane industry.

After the pasture was a few concrete foundations, and the place where the rail car was.

Scaling down the 45 degree slop with various rope, and twine that fishermen placed,

we were at the bottom.

After finding a place to put our stuff we looked into the tide-pools,

however we didn't pay much attention to the surf and got totally soaked.

Later after only finding some unusual fish,

we went to another tidepool,

while I was looking at a massive blenny that I've never seen before,

Josh Melling saw a 30 foot splash from a big wave and I was totally oblivious to what happen since I was looking at the fish.

After many failed attempts we caught one fish to not feel guilty,

a plain and plentiful Zebra Blenny that had some unusually long fins.

We went back up, and scaled the landing........

Then I got home and placed the blenny in a quarantine tank.

Well this would be a pretty boring story without pictures,

now wouldn't it ?

                                      

(and some ruins...)                        

(scary stairs)

(Nice view of coast line!)

        















 And mega Blenny!

(Climb Home)

(Cool panorama)

"Gimp" Photoshop for free

I have recently been having a lot of fun with Gimp which is basically "Photoshop for free!" It has almost every feature that Photoshop has! so its been alot of fun so heres some recent work or more like "tests":

1# The first One is of me that I used the lasso tool to cut

myself out very detailed  

2# The next two are some random "wormholes for fun.

3# The last one is my new puppy Jasmine.

I could have spent more time on cutting out the

dog but there probably more detail in the flowers which are jasmine.                                        

"Santa Hat" "Why I have no Renders" "The Terminator" "Blender 3D Chirstmas Tree" "Blender 3D"

It's been slightly more than a year since Jack Dugan introduced me to Blender.
At first I got really frustrated since I was at the time used to using Maya,
however having all your renders stamped/water marked and not being able to save your work in any form of accepted format so i can use it with other 3D programs eventually got me to drop Maya completely.
Now fast forward one year, dozens of half way finished projects,
tons of idea for animated shorts and whatever other over optimistic projects that were never finished.
I never saved my Blend files nor did I ever save my renders,
time to start!

Well, other than one time I had an animated short of a character drinking coffee,
enjoying his day, getting hit in the head with a marble, then later getting knocked out with a brick. Somehow that decently finished project, my best animated short, got corrupted.

Here is the most recent project causality, that won't be done for Christmas.
Picture him partially clothed with ripped clothing, damaged, scorched steel using Normals Bump Mapping, Displacement and Color UV maps(easy with Blender's texture painting)
carrying a bag of toys on his shoulder and holding a machine gun(that Josh Melling "forced" me to model, err.. inspired me while standing over my shoulder, since I don't have the mind to model unless I'm told what to do).

The background of the scene is/would be an artificial Christmas tree with glass globes,
presents underneath, an extinguished fireplace with hot coals, a brick wall around the fireplace,
pictures on a wooden mantle, and hardwood floors.
Maybe a small table with milk and cookies...

The whole scene would use Blender's internal rendering engine since it's fully integrated into Blender,
unlike my more photorealistic(featuring caustics, photon mapping etc) and preferred rendering engine YafARay.
I'd have some issues getting it to work with the particles of the hat and tree to say the least,
also not to mention YafARay has some occasional but severe integration issues other than particles.

Only if it was 3 weeks until Christmas, I could get most of what I want done.

Renders of what I've done so far (I haven't applied the generic metal material to all the parts, after applying it I'd add special UV mapping to the larger pieces for a non uniform look.)
I didn't model the terminator, but I'm working on rigging him so I can pose him,
plus there are some UV maps that got lost in the 25 saves/versions I've done of him....

P.S. Sorry about the bad/crappy lighting.

The tree is not perfect, but it would work decently enough.
Lighting isn't good, just a test.
I think I'm using at least 400K of particles for the tree.

Umm well I think that's it for today.
Tomorrow I'll do a quasi tutorial on how to make the hat.

Josh Martin

I'm in.

Hi, I'm Brandon Gomez. I'm friends with Josh Melling and Josh Martin, and I've done some 3d modeling and texture work too. GIMP & Blender ftw! I'll be uploading my works soon.

About Me (Josh Melling)

I'm Josh Melling

I am Great friends of both Josh Martin and Brandon.

Like Josh Martin said,we have a lot of similar interests.

Such as 3D artwork, but each his own Type.

I have done some extensive 3D Modeling in Autodesk Maya But    the problem with Maya is the price......

I am just starting to learn Blender because of its "price"

Blender seems very capable, yet confusing.

Gimp is another free program that is a lot of fun! I think it is very capable and would be a waste to purchase Photoshop!

Chief Architect is Probably the only program I have that cost anything. Chief is a CAD/architectural design software that allows you to create very detail plans and cad structures.

So that is the general idea of the work i shall be posting here!

             Josh Melling

Introduction

Woohoo my first post!
Hi I'm Josh Martin and this blog is a combination of myself,
Brandon Gomez(please Brandon correct me on you're last name!)
and Josh Melling.
We have some similar interests and thought it would be interesting to start a combined blog so that we can share what's happening, what we have done and what we are goign to do next.

Contact

Please contact us at: jbjarts@gmail.com