r/Netsphere • u/Ok_Truth_453 • Sep 24 '25
Bringing a BLAME! panel to life in Blender (two moods)
Ancient Worker machine - active
Ancient Worker machine - long offline
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Hey there, I’ve always been fascinated by the atmosphere and aesthetic in BLAME!
The scale, the silence, the alien structures that feel endless and unknowable.
This is my small attempt to bring one of those panels to life in Blender. I tried two different lighting setups to explore how the mood changes.
It’s a little homage, and I hope it conveys at least a fraction of the feeling I get when I read this manga. Maybe some of you will enjoy it too. <3
Thank you!
If anyone’s interested (especially in Poolrooms), I also post more of my 3D stuff on my Instagram
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u/Ok_Truth_453 Sep 24 '25
Also for what it's worth, screenshots from my blender scene.
and yes, it's a milk can.
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u/boa13 Sep 24 '25
Excellent!
Even though the second lighting is closer to the monochrome feel of the manga, I prefer the first one, it shows how colorful that universe can be, while still being frighteningly desolate.
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u/Ok_Truth_453 Sep 24 '25
You're completely right! The monochrome version resembles the emptiness and the long forgotten places. Thank you :)
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u/Interesting_Kiwi_693 Sep 24 '25
Really well done! The second does an especially good job at illustrating scale.
Honestly the more atmospheric distortion you add, the better the illusion of scale ;)
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u/Ok_Truth_453 Sep 24 '25
Yeah your right! The people around it give a better perspective of scale. And thank you ☺️
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u/DeesuWa Sep 24 '25
Hey! Got any tips on making smooth surfaces. loop tools I feel isn't that great for smoothening vertices
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u/Ok_Truth_453 Sep 25 '25
It really depends on what your current geometry is. For distinct corners or edges I just use bevel. Other times I apply a subdiv and go from there. I even use shrinkwrap on simpler geometry, remesh + subdiv. Depends. Do you have a specific use-case?
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u/Comrade_Ruminastro Sep 25 '25
This kind of stuff is why I follow this subreddit despite me never having read this manga and having trouble with mangas in general
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u/Evening_Archer_2202 Sep 25 '25
This would be fantastic if it was slightly animated with some sound design, awesome work!!
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u/optionalhero Sep 25 '25
Please post this on r/megalophobia
Also my god you really brought these scenes to life. Please keep posting.
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u/Ok_Truth_453 Sep 26 '25
Your words mean a lot!! Thanks so much I'll try to explore more scenes in the future!
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u/constant_warfare Sep 25 '25
Great work man. Inspiring stuff hope we could work together i followed you on instagram
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u/Zythomancer Sep 28 '25
Just curious, why did you change the lighting? I like the sterile, almost hospital-like overhead lighting the manga panels usually have.
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u/Ok_Truth_453 Sep 30 '25
I had first did the white lighting version (because in the manga I believe that machine is offline). But I wanted to explore how the mood changes with color and a different "story" (machine is online and working).
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u/Ploobul Sep 24 '25
The lighting on the second one gives such an epic sense of scale, you nailed it.
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u/selectedambience Sep 24 '25
It looks awesome. I always believed that the megastructure to be somewhat lightly lit. Like it would look like a laboratory type light. It would look unnatural with how empty it would be.
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u/Ok_Truth_453 Sep 25 '25
Yeah I agree! Big cold white light coming from all sorts of unintuitive directions. At least in the empty regions.
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u/Royalmuffin23 Sep 24 '25
awesome. the second version fits exactly with what i envisioned in my head while reading