Hi! The Religion and Society Center is the umbrella org for a bunch of programs and projects related to spirituality, interfaith dialogue and some faith-based politics in Central PA. I’m their intern/web designer. All of the graphics are designed in Blender. (The tabs are Inkscape) Poke around the site a little, the attempted feel is dignified with a dose of dandy.
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>> MandolinMan
could you describe it a little more.
maybe with more info on your technique?
Technique… One hemi light moved around for each graphic.
Probably half of the objects in the scene are completely flat elements, half are 3d shaded (sometimes raytraced) objects. The tree shapes were mostly freestyle control-clicking around then filling in later with some idea of what I wanted. I modelled one leaf, gave it two materials, then copy-pasted it into about every graphic on the site. I like the greenery in the graphics, it adds a touch of foresty-feeling to the pieces.
The actual graphics aren’t bad, though you seem to have some kind of transparent bounding box around the copper candles which is clipping some of the white ones behind them.
The page style as is isn’t really helping the image at all, though; it would probably look better with a darker beige-brown color like what you’re using as a background tone rather than the generic grey, which with the current color setup gives me a bit of a “random pieces of webpage are floating on top of a windows element” feel. Smooth graded edges between / around areas would probably go best with the image style, if you can manage it.
Also, on my screen anyway, the tab-bar floats far off the bottom of the page and looks strange.
