BAKING PAPER

2007.04.18 @ 06:09

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I thought I’d quickly share a less conventional usage of some of Blender’s newer features that’s been sitting around on my desktop for a while now. A few months ago, it was (my girlfriend) Kat’s birthday and I thought I’d have some fun and make a simple pop-up card, rather than just buying one. Of course after thinking about it for a little while, my curiosity got the better of me and I set about to make it in CG.

It’s just a simple tree, based on the design of a ring of hers. I traced the shape, making sure it was kept in two flat halves, unwrapped it, and sculpted on a bark-like surface. Then, I added a plane with a dirt texture, added some grass, and set up some lights. From there it was just a matter of doing a full render bake to texture, leaving me with a grass image from above, and the unfolded, textured tree. I saved out the baked textures, printed them on to card, cut them out with a scalpel and wrote a message. I had no idea if it would work or not, but I think it came out all right in the end.

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Reader Comments

Chris Ward / 2007.04.19 @ 13:59

CUTE! Did she like it? Did you get a kiss or … well .. you know, a hug or anything from it? How can you say…i guess it worked out! Come on, come on! ;-) That must have melted her to the bone. Surely it did.

-Chris

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basse / 2007.04.19 @ 22:37

best popup card i’ve ever seen.

you are so cute.

.b
Cloudsk!pper / 2007.04.20 @ 05:53

Really nice! =)
Brian / 2007.04.22 @ 08:09

A great usage of the new tools. And it looks nice. Did she like it?
Mal / 2007.04.24 @ 04:13

If your gf did like it, can you post the files so that we can do the same thing for our gfs, but pretend that it was our own idea? :)

Mal
mantas / 2008.07.02 @ 17:22

lovely, i like the idea. i must try it too.
now more complex forest would be cool too :)