Modeled, animated and rendered entirely from scratch on my phone - no PC, no render farm.
THE CHALLENGE
CG Boost - Gift Factory Challenge (3D animation, official template):
CG Boost website: https://www.cgboost.com
CG Boost on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@cgboost
CG Boost on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cg_boost
CG Boost on X: https://twitter.com/cgboost
HOW LONG IT TOOK
About a lil over week of work (hours of work per day) (Oct 11 - Oct 23, 2026), plus roughly 28 hours of render time, which comes to roughly about 9 minutes 49 seconds per frame.
HOW I MADE IT: ON NOTHING BUT A PHONE HUMAN-MADE ( NO AI! )
Phone: Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra, used in Samsung DeX with a keyboard, mouse and dockSoftware: Blender 4.3.2 (ARM64 Linux), running in an Ubuntu environment inside Termux with an XFCE desktop (Termux:X11)
GPU: the phone’s Qualcomm Adreno 830, through the open-source Mesa Turnip Vulkan driver
Render engine: EEVEE, 64 samples, rendered locally on the phone
Template: the official CG Boost Gift Factory template (their Blender 4.5 version of the file, which opens in 4.3.2)
Luna Ultra model, glass box, bow, lasers and robot arms: made by me in this file
Blender runs on a phone. If you think you need a big PC to start, you don’t.
TUTORIALS I FOLLOWED (huge thanks to The Blenderender)
How to Model the Insta360 in Blender: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjEH2m7n3SE
How to Light Products in Blender: https://www.youtube.com/wat
How to Animate the Insta360 in Blender: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02nwcHYybJk
The Blenderender on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theblenderender
The Blenderender on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/therealblenderender
The Blenderender on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheBlender
Textures: Metal Plate 02 and Metal Plate by Poly Haven (CC0)
- https://polyhaven.com/a/metal_plate_02 and https://polyhaven.com/a/metal_plate
HDRI: Vintage Measuring Lab by Poly Haven (CC0) - https://polg_lab
Sound effects (CC0 on Freesound): Screwdriver_electric 012 by snapssound - https://freesound.org/s/649319/ and drill - 3 short by AlaskaRobotics - https://freesound.org/s/551505/
Some materials from BlenderKit - https://www.blenderkit.com
The CG Boost logo on the boot screen is a nod to the challenge
SUPPORT BLENDER
Blender is free because of the community. If it’s useful to you, please support the Blender Development Fund:
all in Blender on this same phone.
Thanks again to @cgboost for the challenge! #3d #b3d #cgchallenge
This was my first competition ever. I’ve only been learning blender for less than 7 months, all selftaught, and I dont even own a computer.. Everything you see me post we have been made on my cellphone, a Galaxy S25 Ultra, Blender runs inside a Linux (Ubuntu) setup through Termux, using the phone’s own graphics chip. Yes, it’s as wild as it sounds, and yes, my phone get very hot.. *
( i connect Dex to my TV with a keyboard and wireless mouse not but at first yes i just used my stylus/on screen key-board )
