A Commodore 64, made in Blender 2.8 alpha and rendered with EEVEE.
I wasn’t sure about posting this, as it’s finished but not quite “complete” as I had envisioned it. This was made for an assignment in an online class. I’d intended to add a proper desk and some appropriate clutter - such as floppy disks - and maybe even put an image of some kind on the monitor screen. Unfortunately, there was a deadline for the assignment, and I ran out of time.
The time constraint meant I also wasn’t able to complete the texture map for the characters on the front sides of some of the keys, so I had to leave that off as well.
Now that it’s been turned in I suppose it’s true that I could continue working on it and “finish” it for its own sake; but I’ve decided to leave it as is.
German law in the 80s which dictated that office equipment should be beige as part of the established workplace standard. Home micros came in all sorts of colors, but all the serious-business IBM-PCs and AppleIIs were always beige.
Really? German lawmakers were making fashion-statements about plastic?
Anyway, my first computer was a circuit board, called KIM-1. (I later bought another circuit-board, an Apple-1, heh…) I’ve still got it, and it still works, and although by modern standards it can’t really do anything, I’m still amused today to see the robotics people playing with … circuit boards. Getting their hands dirty with rosin and solder and having a great time.
I’ve heard that from a couple of people but I expected it. I tended to remember ours being a little more tan, but that was a long time ago and I was very little. When looking up reference photos for this project it appeared to me that C64’s came in more than one shade - everything from a desaturated light-to-medium grey, to a deep tan, and several variations between. I picked one that seemed middle-of-the-road between those two extremes. The color differences in the photos seemed to be more than just lighting; I supposed Commodore did manufacture them in different colors, intentionally or not.
My first one too - clicked on it for nostalgia reasons
If I’d change anything, it would be the clean look. Put some modern stuff in there, such as a smart phone, and texture the C64 stuff so that it looks like it’s been gathering dust for 35± years
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