Creative
Graphic design, fiction, and art.
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How to use Blender Cycles volumetrics to make realistic-looking rocket exhaust.
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I created a font based on my handwriting. Here’s how I did it.
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Three months later, for my birthday, my parents’ gift was a lizard – a bearded dragon. My parents had even gotten a terrarium with a layer of store-bought gravel, and my dragon looked happy to be sunning on the gray rock under the heat lamp. In a fit of giddy irony, I named her Clyde.
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