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Shahriar Shahrabi
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Modify Realized Instances and Mesh Islands Individually In Blender Geometry Nodes

In this post I will cover how to transform (move, rotate or scale) meshes you have made in Geometry Nodes after you have realized them as instances. I will also cover the case of moving, rotating and scaling mesh segments/ islands individually at the end of the article. Here is…

Techart

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Modify Realized Instances and Mesh Islands Individually In Blender Geometry Nodes
Modify Realized Instances and Mesh Islands Individually In Blender Geometry Nodes
Techart

12 min read


Nov 2

In the Valley of Gods Style Saturated Shadows in Blender Lightbake

In this post I will cover how to color the penumbra in light bakes in Blender 3D. This effect was inspired by the concept art for Valley of Gods’ concept art. The now cancelled In the Valley of Gods title by the developers of Firewatch had some gorgeous concept arts…

Blender

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In the Valley of Gods Style Saturated Shadows in Blender Lightbake
In the Valley of Gods Style Saturated Shadows in Blender Lightbake
Blender

9 min read


Sep 25

Designing for Aesthetic in Video Games Art Direction

Part of video game art direction is clear communication. However overoptimizing for an immediate unambiguous reading of your message can make the aesthetic of your game suffer and reduce the playfulness of your visuals. Whenever I talk about art direction, I always emphasize three points. I focus on legibility, emotional…

Art Direction

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Designing for Aesthetic in Video Games Art Direction
Designing for Aesthetic in Video Games Art Direction
Art Direction

13 min read


Sep 19

Painting with Code

Combining simple mathematical functions, you can paint beautiful images, practice your maths skills and wrap your head around how to program for SIMD style concurrent programming. This painting was done as a demo for my talk in Codetalks 2023. You can find the code on my Shadertoy, and a recording…

Shaders

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Painting with Code
Painting with Code
Shaders

16 min read


Jun 6

Day Night Cycle using LUT in Fragment Shader of Materials

I will cover how to use look up tables, aka LUTs in the fragment shader of the object’s material to make a day night transition or adjust the feel of your scene. …

Lut

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Day Night Cycle using LUT in Fragment Shader of Materials
Day Night Cycle using LUT in Fragment Shader of Materials
Lut

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May 23

Procedural Chinese Landscape Painting in Geometry Nodes Blender 3D

Creating a procedural Chinese landscape painting in Blender 3D using geometry nodes and Voronoi noise. As usual, you can find the nodes under the MIT license for free use on my Github: https://github.com/IRCSS/Procedural-Chinese-Landscape-Painting-Blender-3D You can also find an colored example of a model the system generates on my Sketchfab, or…

Blender

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Procedural Chinese Landscape Painting in Geometry Nodes Blender 3D
Procedural Chinese Landscape Painting in Geometry Nodes Blender 3D
Blender

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·Apr 18

A Case for Game Systems Being Art

Fiction, music and visual compositions are art mediums, naturally the combination of them would also be art. But the actual question is if Games (Game systems) can be art on their own. Is Tetris art? Independent of the catchy music and the visuals? …

Game Design

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A Case for Game Systems Being Art
A Case for Game Systems Being Art
Game Design

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·Mar 6

Art Direction for VR: Lessons Learned from Puzzling Places

In this post I will cover some of the stuff I learned doing the art direction for Puzzling Places. …

Puzzling Places

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Art Direction for VR: Lessons Learned from Puzzling Places
Art Direction for VR: Lessons Learned from Puzzling Places
Puzzling Places

17 min read


Feb 27

Blender Geometry Nodes: Create Stylized Scenes

In this post I will cover some of the core Blender Geometry Nodes concepts I used in my stylized scene generator and procedural geometry. …

Blender

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Blender Geometry Nodes: Create Stylized Scenes
Blender Geometry Nodes: Create Stylized Scenes
Blender

14 min read


Jan 2

My Top Books of 2022

Some books change you in various ways. I had the pleasure of reading these in 2022. The list includes everything from comics, programming, art, history, game design, etc. Depending on your reading interest, some might bring the same joy to you too! There are way too many books I read…

Book Recommendations

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My Top Books of 2022
My Top Books of 2022
Book Recommendations

7 min read

Shahriar Shahrabi

Shahriar Shahrabi

956 Followers

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