I made 3D renders of some Bitcoins and am here to share the images and 3D models

cybrbeast

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Hey all, didn't realize this thread was still active. I have a more comprehensive thread here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bitcoin-3d-renders-free-to-use-as-wallpaper-for-promotion-or-commercially-182200

Why did I do it. Just for fun actually, just recently started using Blender and though it would be nice to try and create this. They were quite popular on r/bitcoin and I got some nice tips so I continued. I also did a few commissioned jobs which paid in Bitcoin.

Not quite sure how long it took to make them. Quite a few hours.

I'm really stoked that Isokivi made physical forms of them, never expected it to happen. He's even sending two of them to me for free

Nik1ab

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WOW, that looks really great!
Good job! Cheesy

But why did you do this actually? Wink

kingmidas

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Wow! You are very talented :-)

I am curious how many hour took you to create them Grin

Keep up the good work!

bujiraso

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Geez! These are fantastic.
Wallpaper'd!

Isokivi

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Items flashing here available at btctrinkets.com

I have produced these magnificient renderings in physical form with cybrbeast's consent:

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.2099663

cybrbeast

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Great to see my work featured like that! Credits are appreciated, but feel free to remove them if you want to clean up the interface.

yucca

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I would put them on shutterstock, you should get paid for them, they're great work! Also you will find that employees (journalists etc) prefer to use paid for GFX, where the license is clear. So they just hit up paid for GFX sites.

Maybe put them up lower priced than the competition and make a load of different popular aspect ratio renderings and compositions.

Here's how I'm using the GFX in my current work in progress application:

cybrbeast

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Does anyone know of a way to get my renderings to the media? I saw this article which includes a rendering bought on Shutterstock and I think you'll agree my ones look better, and they are free too.

cybrbeast

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I made a test animation of falling bitcoins using my model: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d99dLbM4eGY

The quality of the images is not nearly as good as the stills because I had to use a different render engine to keep the render times down. Rendering with the same quality as the stills would only be viable if I had an Nvidia GPU because it speeds up the engine enormously. Too bad it can't make use of my powerful Radeon. Planning on buying a new GPU soon though.

If I have some spare time I'll try to improve the physics and look of the animation and make it longer with more coins

cybrbeast

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Thanks JackRabiit, two people from r/bitcoin already approached me for some coin renders and paid me in Bitcoin

yucca, I hadn't even thought of milling. Could look great indeed, will look into it.

yucca

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Quote from: cybrbeast on March 29, 2013, 10:30:49 AM

Thanks I would like to print them in metal, but the metal prints at shapeways aren't suited for the fine details. Plastic would be an option, but it would seriously diminish the cool factor. I think I'll just have to be patient and wait for 3D metal printing technology to improve and become affordable, it's developing quite fast.

Maybe you could get one CNC milled, with a gold anodize after disk is established and before details are applied. Sure would be cool!

With free downloadable software you can get a quote for a one off by entering the 3d model and selecting material:

somewhere like:
http://www.emachineshop.com/

Fiyasko

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Okey Dokey Lokey

Woah! Great work!! You should be making money off your talent!

infested999

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Quote from: rpietila on March 29, 2013, 03:34:58 PM

Quote from: cybrbeast on March 29, 2013, 03:28:31 PM

That's pretty cool. Would have to get a lot of people together to place an order like that though, because 10,000 coins is a bit much for me. Doing a Scrooge McDuck into the coins would be fun, if not painful, though

That is a minimum economic quantity, since the setup with the dies etc. costs about $500.

We need to find some Bitcoin entrepreneurs to do this with him.

yucca

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Quote from: cybrbeast on March 29, 2013, 05:05:37 PM

yucca, sure you can use them, that's one of the reasons I made this post. Our networks do look similar

Rendering a different aspect ratio of a shot should be easy, which shot did you have mind? Changing the composition takes more effort.

That's great, no worries with a re-render, I will have a go at pushing them around myself in blender. I'll post the finished dialog here when I'm done.

Thanks for this, i wish good karma upon you Cheesy

. If you're ever interested in windows (compatible with linux wine) daytrading software for bitcoin, drop me a PM for a free shareware key.

cybrbeast

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rpietila, I understand and I think those prices are very good. However I don't feel like going through the logistics of getting such an order shared by many people together. But I gave my models away, so anyone who feels up to the challenge is more than welcome to have them made, please send me a couple though

yucca, sure you can use them, that's one of the reasons I made this post. Our networks do look similar

Rendering a different aspect ratio of a shot should be easy, which shot did you have mind? Changing the composition takes more effort.

yucca

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VERY nice work! Shocked

Of all the bitcoin renders I've seen so far, these look the best! Excellent material setup, really looks like expensive proof coins with the contrast of mat and shiny.

I'm currently working on a charting/trading app for Bitcoin, and I would really like to include your render as a side graphic in the bitcoin setup dialog. Your P2P graphic is close to my Cortex7 logo, it would really fit nicely into my app.

I can offer you a free key to the shareware when it's released (plus early beta key should you want it).

more info: http://www.cortex7.net/forum/forumdisplay.php?fid=8

edit: and of course you would be credited, I could place a small clickable text on bottom corner of graphic linking to URL of your choice.

edit2: if you could make a nice scene in portrait aspect ratio 1X:2Y then it'd be cool, I would try it myself in blender but you seem to have quite the eye for this.

rpietila

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Quote from: cybrbeast on March 29, 2013, 03:28:31 PM

That's pretty cool. Would have to get a lot of people together to place an order like that though, because 10,000 coins is a bit much for me. Doing a Scrooge McDuck into the coins would be fun, if not painful, though

That is a minimum economic quantity, since the setup with the dies etc. costs about $500.

cybrbeast

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That's pretty cool. Would have to get a lot of people together to place an order like that though, because 10,000 coins is a bit much for me. Doing a Scrooge McDuck into the coins would be fun, if not painful, though

rpietila

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Minting in a regular private mint is not too expensive.
http://www.hoffmanmint.com/

For $1,000-$1,500 you can get 10,000 custom minted tokens.

cybrbeast

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Maybe Sketchup, but I haven't tried importing them yet, but it is compatible with Collada files. I would still recommend Blender as you will be able to see the textures. I could post another blend file with the scene set up and cycles set into preview mode. Then you see almost realtime results as the sampling passes increase. Blender is quite complicated but navigating is relatively straightforward. You can rotate around by holding MMB and pivoting, scrolling zooms.

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