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Thing #27/365

I found a really rad carbon nanotube plug in that I've been playing around with. I put a transparent material on it and it starts to take on a very organic, egglike feel. Going to have to come back to this one for sure. 

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Thing #25/365

Trying to do some more advanced rendering techniques and beefing up my workflow. Trying to get the 'brainy' stuff in the middle to glow and react to the glass and water. 

Almost all the way caught up on here. Hopefully I will be able to render a couple more scenes to get it there. 

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Thing #21/365

Made a simple little pill model and wanted to use it in some kind of dynamics simulation so I made a couple other colors and threw it in a marble fountain. It turned out way better than I expected, honestly. 

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Thing #15/365

Still thinking about environments and making them look realistic lately. I'm really digging this kind of ceramic type look but I'd like to make it dirtier in the future or maybe all crystalline. It's a start towards something. 

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Thing #8/365

I've been reading a lot of Arthur C. Clarke lately and thinking about space dwellings. The idea of hollowing out an asteroid and people living inside it is something I can't stop thinking about. 

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