Turn your 3D creations into PEN-AND-INK
The Process
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Models are brought into Blender as .glb, .obj, or .fbx’s.
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Sculpted or auto-generate models are remeshed in Blender using voxel remeshing, followed by quadriflow remeshing.
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Silhouettes and contours are generated using Blender’s grease pencil, and exported to .svg’s.
Hatch work is generated in plotter fun from shadow and cavity passes. -
Generated .svg’s are brought into Adobe Illustrator for cleanup.
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Processed .svg’s are imported into Inkscape. Vector art is plotted on vellum or hot-press watercolor paper using an Axidraw S3/V3 pen plotter and technical pens.
The Payoff
Turn-table animation of a skull and cervical vertebrae. Frames were created with a pen plotter, and line art was generated by converting 3D models into vector art.
CD8 (red and pink) complexed to HLA and the T-Cell Receptor. Based on PDB entries 1AKJ and 7PHR
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Proteosome complex, based on PDB entry 1FNT.
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Partial viral capsid of cucumber mosaic virus, based on PDB entry 1CGM.
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Viral capsid of a rhinovirus particle, based on PDB entry 1FPN.
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Calcium pump, based on PDB entry 1SU4.
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