Create With Clink Weekly Challenge 197 - ‘Escape’
The Final Result
Summary
| Biz | Biz Biz |
|---|---|
| Author | Project Somedays |
| Title | Create With Clint Weekly Challenge 197- “Escape” |
| 📅 Started | 2025-05-30 |
| 📅 Completed | 2025-05-28 |
| 🕒 Taken | ~6hrs |
| Render🕒 | ~10hrs |
| 🤯 Concept | Octopus Escapes Tank |
| 🔎 Focus | Water Sim |
| 🖥️ Rig Deets | 64GB RAM, 13th Gen Core i9, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 4060 Ti |
Created for the weekly Create with Clint/pwnisher community
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🎓Lessons Learned🎓
- Shape Keys: No face-rigging necessary. What are they? PIXXO 3D has us covered 🥰
Resources:
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“Potli with Stick” by mayurmistry7293 is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution.
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“Piggy Van Junior (3d Print)” by Slava Z. is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial.
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This helpful little tutorial on using masking with the sculpt tool
Stretch Goals/Extension Ideas
- Animation or at least soft body physics on the other tentacles
- Work out how to parent the… well I guess you just attach a vertex group to the pole to get the tip of the tentacle to move with the bindle… Do that 😊
🪵Dev Log🪵
2025-05-28 18:00 - 19:00 🕒 1hr
- First pass at a cute octopus
2025-05-30 20:00 - 2025-05-31 00:30 🙄 Smashing the rest out
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Made a coral stick using a BlenderKit texture and kitbashing from SketchFab
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Adding suckers with the sculpt tool and masking: love it!
- Rigging and Posing a Tentacle
- Shape Key Left Eye
- Shape Key Right Eye
- Found a hyper-stylised work van, modified Jacques the cleaner shrimp from Finding Nemo JUST enough and slapped it clumsily on the side using a UV Image Texture
- Brought in a Coastal HDRI from Blender Kit for some lovely atmospheric lighting. Tried a couple of different ground plane setups, but ultimately I’d just run out of time for the 2AM Australian time deadline
.png "LOVE the immediate increase in atmosphere")
- Keyframed some really basic camera moves, pausing on the beats - probably could have used a LITTLE more time on the side of the van to let the viewer read it - but I didn’t want to lose momentum. Would I tighten it up a little? YES! At the end of the day, projects are never finished, just published. Moving on!
