Blender 3D Archives - Juan Manuel Maldonado


by Juan Maldonado - December 16 2013

Trombone rendering – Blender 3D

  I decided to do a trombone rendering. This is one of the instruments that I played in high school. I was primarily a baritone horn player but I was told that if I wanted to be a more well-rounded musician and one who maybe got occasional work, I should learn to play the trombone. Outside of Gustav… [CONTINUE]


Blender 3D still life scene and my wedding

  I decided to create a Blender 3D still life scene but couldn’t decide what to do. This is the end result. My wife and I didn’t get a wedding cake. We didn’t do the funky chicken, there was no bouquet tossing. There was a bouquet, an absurdly beautiful one designed and generously gifted by my wife’s cousin… [CONTINUE]


Architecture in Blender 3D – Alhondiga de Granaditas

  Here’s a little example of architecture in Blender 3D based on a place I visited. In November of 2010, my girlfriend of 11 months and I went to Mexico on vacation. In San Miguel de Allende, after tearing up a rotisserie chicken with our bare hands and eating it with tomatillo salsa and a stack of… [CONTINUE]


Branding with Blender 3D

  Here is an example of branding with Blender 3D for a fictional paint company in Portland called Alberta Hues. I am much better at designing cans of paint than I am coming up for names of paint as you can see. These were designed in Blender 3D using a technique that I’ve been using… [CONTINUE]


Blender 3D Trumpet

  Check out my Blender 3D trumpet, broheim. I made this using a source image from Google in the background as a guide. It was actually quite easy to do. I did most of the tubing by extruding a circle continuously and then occasionally bending it with the Spin tool. I used subsurf modifiers to… [CONTINUE]