So, you know how it is: we entrepreneurs have to learn 1000+1 things when fighting for our startups. In my case, aside from all the agile, scrum and business-y stuff, I’ve gotten old-school and spent a few nights awake learning some “hardcore” CG software. Since summer began I threw my claws towards Substance Designer. For those of you who don’t know what it is, it’s an amazing node based software that lets you create procedural textures. Errr… maybe that was still to technical. Ok: it’s a program that lets you create tillable textures (textures than can be repeated without the edges being noticeable) by “mixing” patterns, other textures and different effects. I knew NOTHING about it. Complete noob. But trust me: it’s a breeze! It’s a wonderful program and I can spend hours upon hours looking for ways of achieving the […]

I’ve been wanting to do something with mushrooms since a while ago. And since I’ve been making a series of toon-ish 3D renders/illustrations based on plants, I decided the next ones would be with mushrooms. (for some reason, I’m liking designing alien/fantasy plants a lot!) I wanted to make a mushroom just a tad different from the usual, so first I designed way more round than the usual ones. It’s almost like a ballon. But then that wasn’t enough, I needed something to make them different. I thought about layers, multiple caps on the same mushroom, colors, glows, even tentacles. And then one day I was taking a bath and found inspiration on the mos unlikely object: the drainage in the bathtub, which looks something like this: So I came with the idea of the mushroom developing holes on the […]