Walkman (1979)

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I’ve modeled, textured and rendered the original Walkman from 1979, while testing out the Blender 4.3 beta. The Oren–Nayar reflectance model for rough surfaces makes a huge difference, particularly for the headphone’s ear pads in these renders. All materials are procedural, except for an image texture with the labels and symbols.

Front
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Back
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Inside
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Original images

Below are the renders that I originally posted. I have since updated the post with a little more progress, but I’m leaving the originals here for the record.

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Back
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Case
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I had one of those :slight_smile: man i loved that thing

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I featured you on BlenderNation, have a great weekend!

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Thank you, Bart! :smile:

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You’re on the featured row! :+1:

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I miss these, never had a Walkman, just the cheep clones, but I’ve seen it close and your render looks very accurate to me! Well done!

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Those headphones look amazing. Great job.

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Such a great detailed looking render, but I believe it would look even better if you color graded it, as it seems a bit log footage-ish. Love the texture of the earpads!

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Sweet youngster memories!

Uh… I mean… I’m too young to know this! :sweat_smile:

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If you remember the ‘pencil trick’… you’re definitely too old :stuck_out_tongue:

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But very nice work. :+1:
The new shader additions really seems to make a lot of difference.

And Sony really made all the cool audio gadgets in those days. :slight_smile:

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this is what calling a photorealism.
amazing result, lighting is great but materials are even better

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Fantastic work. Cycles shading quality has definitely improved a lot.

Was about to mention it. Don’t forget the hexagon pencil to rewind and save those precious batteries. :smile:

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And repeatedly adjusting the azimuth on your computer’s data cassette recorder, hoping it will adjust the alignment just that bit to get rid of that darn load error. :sweat_smile:

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Uhm… that’s nothing to do with walkmans. You’re talking of a different ‘beast’. :stuck_out_tongue:

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Well … (koff, koff …) does anyone remember when CLOAD was a magazine?

(Bonus-points if you still remember what CLOAD even stood for. Double-points if you remember the “Kansas City standard” – and why it was so awful.)

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here ya go :wink:
CLOAD Magazine : Free Texts : Free Download, Borrow and Streaming : Internet Archive

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It was also a (reasonably) portable recorder with the same cassettes, so it’s fairly related. :slightly_smiling_face:

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Fantastic.

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I didnt have this exact model, but I had those headphones with mine too, spot on!

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