The Simplest Guide to 90s CGI In Blender 

blender also has a sky addon that can be customized similarly to how the bryce sky works. i think the addon comes with blender just not toggled on by default, just needs some tweaking to disable the ambient lighting also that first scene with the wiggly mirror fellow was done with bryce, i do use bryce occasionally

i like how we've reached the point where blender is so good we are trying to make it look "bad" again (and how much effort it takes to get there lol)

This is my LAST tutorial EVER unless I learn something cool, funny stuff on the way

Another important thing to note is that usually your lights should have completely sharp shadows. The best way to do this is by not only reducing the light bounces, but by zeroing out the radius on your light sources under the light material settings.

This new node is allowing me to make my models look WET. YAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYY!!!!! RAIN WILL FALL. SWEAT WILL RUN. PUDDLES WILL SPLASH!!!

10:40 As a quick note, the reason why you don't see the world texture in your specular reflections is because the "Simple Background" node group specifically removes it. You can see it when you tab into the group as a node frame that says "Remove Specular Contribution from Environment." You can turn this off and re-introduce reflections but sliding the factor of the "Multiply" node directly after it from 1 to 0. Hope this helps, great tutorial!

lately my big things with 3d art have been: "man i really love that ps1 style" and "man i love those dumpy 90s renders" and now you've done videos on both so thanks 👍🏻👍🏻

you sound like as if every american guy I know got blended up together in a mixing bowl but in an endearing way

It may also work better to go to Cycles's settings, "Film", "Pixel Filter", and set the "Width" parameter to the lowest value of 0.01. This removes the natural smoothing of edges that Cycles generates by having multiple samples, introducing aliasing artifacts, which may work better. Also go to "Sampling", "Advanced", and on the "Seed" value, enable the clock. This randomizes the low sample count noise between each frame, which can also help the look.

1990's: "Me wonder what GFX look like in 2020's?" 2020's: "How make 90's GFX."

Disillusion? Yume Nikki? Psychopomp? Holy shit, peak

So cool bro most tutorials lose me bc they’re too slow or really stretched out but this was very well paced and still explained everything very well 🗣️ 🗣️

Very well structured tutorial! Having a separate video that records the entire process is also a really neat idea (that I might steal lol) Also love the transitions

I love the yume nikki ref in the video preview

Finally something my computer has the power to render

RIP to the blender render which is the old school pre-PBR renderer with gloss and diffuse to give that artificial plastic look and solid black lighting with no ambient. I never tried “back porting” a modern fbx to blender 2.79 but that might work.

I've been searching for something exactly like this forever. Thanks for sharing!

Another great tutorial, love how in depth you go whilst also making it easy to understand, without taking too long. Smashed it THANKS SUNNY

Thank you so much for this (and for reminding me that Angel's Egg exists, I need to rewatch it). I am a total beginner in Blender and 3D modelling in general, but I have a feeling I'll be back here once I learn more of the basics. I wanna make some classic 3D stuff

When you said Bryce 3D, I was sold

Huh, I was thinking about trying to do this in blender earlier today. Thanks !

Eye-opening tutorial. You do humanity a great service by doing those videos. I hope I'll get around using some of the techniques described there, when I need them.

crazy to see this right after getting interested in old looking renders, i will definitely be trying this out!! tysm!!

Yeah, I needed this!! Thanks!!!

OHHHHGF I LOVE THIS SO MUCH IF/WHEN I FINALLY GET INTO USING BLENDER THIS IS GONNA BE SO HELPFUL. THUS IS LIKE MY MOST FAVOURITE THING EVER I LOVE 90s AND EARLY 2000s COMPUTER STUFF OSO MUCH

With the re-release of Gwimbly this is going to be a gold mine video

Nicely made replication to the style!

I played the first disillusion and loved the visuals and aesthetics, surprised to see you cover it, really cool

Oh wow! I've been looking for a tut like this for forever! I wonder if the principles/ideas in this could help with making the type of look for water that I want to make (2000's cg oceans, particle water droplets, DOAXBV, Kingdom Hearts 1, Final Fantasy X)

this is exactly what i needed, thank you so much!

Very well presented, I loved the text to speech robot partway through, that was great

ive been trying to figure out this style too, thanks for the great tutorials i usually ended up just going back to blender 2.7 for the internal renderer so i dont have to think too hard on how to do the lighting lol, but theres more to it than just the lighting anyway

I'm only part way through the video, but another trick is to set your shader to gouraud mode. That's what old 3D modelers like 3D Studio for DOS used as well as the original Sony PlayStation.

10:56 You can just disable diffuse and ray by changing the color/brightness based of the ray info node

angel's egg reference? subbed.

yayyyy new video!

great video man thank you for the knowledge

Incredible video, super helpful thx

Thank you veyy much, I've been looking for tutorial like this for like ten thousand years

you are a blessing by god, sunny

Huh, neat! I'll try this when I can.

Yknow if it’s gonna be a good guide if the start of the video starts off with banger music

I love you Sunny this is the best video ever now I don’t have to put myself through the meat grinder that is old Bryce3D

thanks for this

Man I love your character lmfao. That huge grin is awesome

i understood alittle but this is such a cool tutorial thanks

POVRAY for the true OG look in modelling/rendering.

awesome

this video feels like it was made exactly for me lol been getting back into blender lately and I've been thinking about yume nikki and angels egg recently. neat coincidence

Good tutorial 👍

Cool and good looking tut, keep goin 8:

Thanks Charlie!

Sunny video !!!

This is so retro

i see yume nikki i click

I love sunny online

what the hell this came at the perfect time

Btw For Animations It's Possible To Have Easing Back In The 90s But Sometimes The Animation Usually Uses Stiff And Robotic Looking Movement

What is the background music you can hear in general but particularly at 6:50? Also I think making a beginner blender video could be a good idea to build up our way specifically to your style of making things. Maybe, rather than beginner video, a walktrough trough your process with the most basic ideas explained that a beginner could understand, or which other things you need to learn for this certain approach. I'm aware that there are begginer tutorials but at least me, who doesn't know anything about blender, could benefict from this since I don't give a shit about any other style and want to try doing only that for now. Still I can appreciate that what you've showcased in this video doesn't seem overly convoluted and and the way you explain things is really easy to understand. Your editing and art are very beautiful man, I'll be tunning in waiting for more content, have a good day.

YO IS THAT BAD CHEST FEEL,DONT TOUCH YOUR FEET TOGETHER FROM PSYCHOPOMP AT 4:35

What blender theme do you use? (great video by the way)

I’d say that’s more early to mid 90’s than the 2000’s. Speaking of, is it possible to do a video on PS2/GameCube graphics?

Saw this in the discord yesterday

does anyone have a fix for changing color of simple background breaking cycles and then freezing blender

Help!!! I cant get the "simple background" node to show up in the shading editor, anyone knows how to find or enable it?. Great video btw

whats the song for the lighting section? it bops

bro all of my very first early renders look like 90s cgi

Bro decided to play GTA IV that day

what was the song used in the lighting section?

very good tutorial but your example looks nothing like an old CGI )

entirely unrelated to the vid but wats the name of the TTS you used? i keep hearing it everywhere

Why does this 3d model scene look like Evangelion...

connecting anything to sky color in simple background makes the entire render gray and if i switch out of rendering it freezes completely

whats the background song called

What is the name of the song that plays at the compositing screen at 11:05?

What is the track called at 4:33 ?

8:49 where do you find the "simple background" node? cant find it on google. your tutorial is not easy to understand.

Yume Nikki W

This is more like 80s CGI

I'm using blender right now and needed this

Promo SM

Photoshop god damn it 😭

Thank you i am also sonny i also invented yawtawb

I HATE PBR, AND I LOVE THIS.

Where is the funny

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