Blender Projects

Three low-poly scenes modelled, lit and rendered in Blender 4.5.8 LTS — a floating island diorama with a cabin on a rock pillar, a night street of terraced houses, and a looping car animation that drives around a miniature planet. The repo ships the .blend sources, the final Cycles renders and the loop exports (MP4 + GIF), all openable and re-renderable as-is.

What's inside

Scene	Subject	Engine	Still / video	Geometry	Files
Car Animation	Toy-sized car looping a road that wraps a spherical green hill, blob trees, flat sky	Cycles	1920×1080 · 30 fps · 7.0 s loop	17,162 verts · 32,818 tris	.blend · .mp4 · .gif
Low-Poly Island	Floating island diorama: wooden cabin on a rock pillar, deck, staircases, pines, pond, lanterns	Cycles	4000×3400 · 24 fps	8,875 verts · 16,284 tris	.blend · .jpg
Terraced Houses	Two terraced houses (ochre + burgundy) on a night street, glowing windows and street lamps	Cycles	4000×3000 · 24 fps	7,956 verts · 12,970 tris	.blend · .png

Repo totals: 3 .blend sources · 515 objects (501 meshes) · 33,993 vertices · 62,072 triangles · 44 materials · 0 image textures — every material is a flat, procedural or emissive shader, so each .blend is fully self-contained (no external texture files to lose).

Open a scene

Requires Blender 4.5+ — the files are saved in format v405 and open cleanly in 4.5.8 LTS.

git clone https://github.com/emrelab/blender-projects.git
cd blender-projects

# Headless render of frame 1 (no GUI) — proves the scene renders end to end
blender -b terraced-houses/terraced-house.blend -o //render_ -F PNG -f 1

# Or open it in the GUI
blender low-poly-island/envanto-tutariol.blend    # macOS/Linux
# Windows: File → Open → pick the .blend

Opening a file gives you the full working scene: camera already framed, lights placed, render settings (Cycles, resolution, samples) saved per project — press F12 to re-render. Full-resolution frames are heavy (up to 4000×3400 Cycles), so each project README also shows a --python-expr one-liner that drops resolution and samples for a fast sanity check.

Projects

Car Animation — car-animation/

A 7-second loop of a stylized yellow car driving around a hill that reads as a tiny planet: a curved road with dashed markings, blob-canopy trees, soft sun light and a flat blue sky with stylized clouds.

• 59 objects — 53 meshes, 4 lights (Sun, Point, 2× Area), 1 camera, 1 empty
• Animation — two actions (SphereAction, VertAction); the loop is driven by object and shape-key animation, no armature/rigging
• Scene render: 1920×1080 @ 30 fps, frames 1–210 (7.0 s)
• Exports: car-animation.mp4 (H.264, 1280×720, 30 fps, 7 s, 924 KB), car-animation.gif (800×450, 70 frames)

Low-Poly Island — low-poly-island/

A faceted island diorama: a wooden cabin perched on a tall rock pillar with a wraparound deck and two staircases, pine trees, stumps and boulders, a small pond, lantern posts, a stone path, faceted water and a triangular low-poly sky. The tilting isometric camera keeps it reading as a miniature model.

• 158 objects — 153 meshes, 4 lights (Sun, Sun.001, Area, Point), 1 camera
• 11 named collections keep the scene navigable: Wooden Deck, Wooden Fences, Roof, Walls, Window, Trees, Rocks, Water, Pavement, Lamp
• 13 materials: Island Inner, Island Outer, Rocks, Water, Stone Pavement, Wooden Deck, Wooden Plank, Wooden Pole, Wooden Window, Leaves, Glass, Metal, Light
• Scene render: 4000×3400, 24 fps, frames 1–250

Terraced Houses — terraced-houses/

A night street: two terraced houses (warm ochre and deep burgundy) with emissive windows, a sidewalk with wooden fencing, glowing globe street lamps, dashed lane markings and dark tree silhouettes behind the buildings.

• 298 objects — 295 meshes, only 2 lights (Sun + Point); the night mood comes from emissive window and lamp materials, not from placed lights
• 19 materials incl. Brick, Wood, Road, Window glass, Trees, Metalic
• Scene render: 4000×3000, 24 fps, frames 1–250

Repo layout

blender-projects/
├── car-animation/        # .blend + .mp4 + .gif
├── low-poly-island/      # .blend + 4000×3400 render
├── terraced-houses/      # .blend + 4000×3000 render
├── previews/             # web-optimised copies used by the READMEs (originals stay untouched)
└── scripts/blend_stats.py

previews/ holds resized JPEGs/GIF for fast page loads; the originals in each project folder are the real renders (up to 12 MP).

Reproducing the numbers

Every figure above was extracted from the .blend files themselves, not estimated. scripts/blend_stats.py prints scene settings, collections, geometry counts, materials, actions and image-texture usage as JSON:

blender -b low-poly-island/envanto-tutariol.blend -P scripts/blend_stats.py 2>/dev/null \
  | sed -n '/###JSON###/,/###END###/p' | sed '1d;$d'

Notes & known nits

• Tutorial-based work. Each scene was built by following public Blender tutorials. The source tutorials were not recorded at the time, so they are not linked here — if you recognise one behind a scene, open an issue and I'll add the credit.
• Material names carry a few typos from the original files (Strone Front, Metalic, Lamb, Material.001…011), left as-is so the renders stay byte-identical to the saved scenes.
• No rigging: the car loop is object/shape-key animation, so there is no armature to retarget.
• The largest committed asset is terraced-houses.png (12 MB, 4000×3000); the README uses the 212 KB preview instead.

Credits & attribution

Modelling, lighting, materials and rendering: Yunus Emre Karaman. Built with Blender and its Cycles render engine. See Notes & known nits above for tutorial attribution.

License

MIT © 2026 Yunus Emre Karaman — the .blend files, renders and exports are free to use, modify and redistribute with attribution.