{"id":125,"date":"2026-03-05T02:20:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T02:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portfolio.nodespaghetti.club\/?p=125"},"modified":"2026-03-05T17:47:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T17:47:21","slug":"monarch-butterfly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/portfolio.nodespaghetti.club\/?p=125","title":{"rendered":"Monarch Butterfly"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1314\" src=\"https:\/\/portfolio.nodespaghetti.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/joseph-brandenburg-main-000a.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Monarch Butterfly\" style=\"object-fit:cover;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/portfolio.nodespaghetti.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/joseph-brandenburg-main-000a.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/portfolio.nodespaghetti.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/joseph-brandenburg-main-000a-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/portfolio.nodespaghetti.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/joseph-brandenburg-main-000a-1024x701.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/portfolio.nodespaghetti.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/joseph-brandenburg-main-000a-768x526.jpg 768w, https:\/\/portfolio.nodespaghetti.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/joseph-brandenburg-main-000a-1536x1051.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"701\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"126\" src=\"https:\/\/portfolio.nodespaghetti.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/joseph-brandenburg-close-000-701x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-126\" srcset=\"https:\/\/portfolio.nodespaghetti.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/joseph-brandenburg-close-000-701x1024.jpg 701w, https:\/\/portfolio.nodespaghetti.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/joseph-brandenburg-close-000-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/portfolio.nodespaghetti.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/joseph-brandenburg-close-000-768x1122.jpg 768w, https:\/\/portfolio.nodespaghetti.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/joseph-brandenburg-close-000-1051x1536.jpg 1051w, https:\/\/portfolio.nodespaghetti.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/joseph-brandenburg-close-000-1401x2048.jpg 1401w, https:\/\/portfolio.nodespaghetti.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/joseph-brandenburg-close-000-scaled.jpg 1752w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 701px) 100vw, 701px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"832\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"127\" src=\"https:\/\/portfolio.nodespaghetti.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/joseph-brandenburg-wing-000a-832x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-127\" srcset=\"https:\/\/portfolio.nodespaghetti.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/joseph-brandenburg-wing-000a-832x1024.jpg 832w, https:\/\/portfolio.nodespaghetti.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/joseph-brandenburg-wing-000a-244x300.jpg 244w, https:\/\/portfolio.nodespaghetti.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/joseph-brandenburg-wing-000a-768x945.jpg 768w, https:\/\/portfolio.nodespaghetti.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/joseph-brandenburg-wing-000a-1248x1536.jpg 1248w, https:\/\/portfolio.nodespaghetti.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/joseph-brandenburg-wing-000a-1664x2048.jpg 1664w, https:\/\/portfolio.nodespaghetti.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/joseph-brandenburg-wing-000a.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 832px) 100vw, 832px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This was a one-week project. I made the character in 3DCoat, did the retopology in Blender, and made the texture for the eyes in Substance Designer. The milkweed plant was modeled in Blender, textures created in Krita from public-domain photographs. The milkweed plants were modeled with some plant-creation tools I made with Geometry Nodes. Finally, the lighting, rendering, and compositing were done in Blender.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"960\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 960;\" width=\"1920\" controls src=\"https:\/\/portfolio.nodespaghetti.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/combined-turntable.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was a one-week project. I made the character in 3DCoat, did the retopology in Blender, and made the texture for the eyes in Substance Designer. The milkweed plant was modeled in Blender, textures created in Krita from public-domain photographs. The milkweed plants were modeled with some plant-creation tools I made with Geometry Nodes. 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