Cactu in Box in Space
2020 ⬤ "Handle package with care; contents may be thorny"
Summary
This is a simple model of a shiny bulbous cactus looking cute hiding out in its box, with emissive sparkles. It has an HDRI background so that it's in low space orbit around the Earth.
Overview
The model was constructed simply; a cube without a top for the box, smaller thinner cubes with cardboard side textures for the open "wings" of the box, and a cube subdivided into a sphere for the cactus, with a glossy material. The eyes are made the same way as the cactus, as are the sparkly stars which just use an emission material with four extruded faces off the cube. The smile was also made with a subdivided cube, but with a loop-cut center lowered down to create the arcing shape. The model was placed into a pre-made HDRI for lighting, which made it look like it was in low space orbit.
Cardboard textures from a forgotten source
HDRI texture from a deleted Reddit user
Site font: Atkinson Hyperlegible
Apart from the above, all content was created by me, CactusMagelord, unless otherwise stated.
"How'd he get up there?"