I couldn’t think of anything interesting to make, so I decided to try a texturing technique I haven’t tried before.
This is my participation.
There are some little things I would like to change but I don’t know if I will have the time. In any case, let me know what you think.
Did I make it on time?
Long time didn’t participate and finally managed to squeeze some time for Collab 
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Instead of just office supplies… I made an office… and office on a space station.
Some more info
Here is viewport:
I did re-use some of my old models, esp. the one I describe doing here: Making hard surface models for games and Fusion Core Mk II - hard surface doodle .
The plant I found on blenderswap (CC0) by Simon_M and modified it to fit on the space station.
The chair is CC-BY from sketchfab. “Gaming chair” (https://skfb.ly/6VDIv) by snjvsngh_negi is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Edit: replace the file with fixed one (uploaded not final version previously 
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Edit2: Made artstation page for this one: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/B3rl66
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I think many participants have outdone themselves. Making a choice is difficult, the diversity is great in style, technique, and realism.
Extraordinary work!
I couldn’t agree more. I can’t remember having such a great collection of entries to vote for in one single Collab. 
Damn that’s cool… maybe you should consider a career desgning office supplies 
I sincerely hope that future offices on space stations will all have that certain futuristic and calm flair 
Hi Will,
I really like your work, but one thing hits my eye and irritates me a lot.
Please do not understand my message as criticising your work, but maybe you find something to think about and develop your art further in it, at least that’s my motivation on writing this to you.
Well, with this said:
What irritates me is the compostion.
The table, picture, machine itself, pencil and bottle of (don’t know the english term for this correction white, so I’ll keep refering to “the bottle”) look very organised and even the ground fits into this.
The only thing which is out of this system is appearently the paper on the table.
Instead of turning the paper to make it fit into the geometrical system I’d turn the bottle of white a few grades around Z axis to break the system even further. Keeping a clear, organised system at work places is hard enough already, keeping it up with geometrical accuracy seems almost impossible and also kind of sterile, as if no person ever touches the workplace and the devices.
Even a tiny turn of the bottle and maybe the pencil around the Z axis could help to let the scene feel more alive, closer and easier to identify with for the person who’s looking at it.
The other thing about composition which hits my eye even harder is the sheet of paper which sticks in the typewriter; there’s nothing wrong with it, but the upper edge of it is almost perfectly parallel and congruent with the edge of the typewriter. If it overlapped the edge of the typewriter, may it be by just a tiny little bit or a bit more, it possibly made the entire scene look more realistic.
Tidy arrangements are products of peoples efforts to organize, but organized systems fall back into more and more chaotic states over time and start to do so the very moment they are established, just think of dust
Ok, sorry for texting so much upon this topic, I really like your work and the items look great.
No offence meant towards it in any way.
Happy blending 
I don’t mind criticisms btw , but yeah I agree I actually wanted to have papers scattered with stuff typed on them, wanted an actual wooden textured table, a lamp and other stuff.
But don’t have much time nowadays, doing a full stack web developer course, trying to finish it before the new year, and also its that time of the year. Didn’t enter the last couple so felt like I needed to do something.
I see; yes, limited time can be a terrible thing for sure 
Good luck with the web developer course
This is a tough one, I had to give it to @Cathy_N, the style is just too cute and something we often don’t see during a collab, even if the shadows don’t necessarily behave correctly (I’m looking at you, notebook 
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Thank you so much! I completely agree! Since that type of shading ignores gradient and uses flat colours to render light and shadow, the end result looks quite different on flat objects as opposed to objects with more volume. I had the same problem with the table which I fixed by adding more geometry (placed gaps in between the planks). I couldn’t come up with anything to fix the book though because books are flat and don’t really have any texture. Now that I think about it, I should’ve probably inflated the centre of the book ever so slightly to get a better looking shadow… Oh well, it’s too late now! 
Great changes I like the upper window blind with its shadows across the room.
Advanced artificial gravity they have! Something almost all sci-fi assumes will ever be possible.
Thank you! I did change a lot there:
- redid the lighting from scratch,
- reduced desk height, made the monitor bigger
- more cables!
- removed top lamps (couldn’t denoise it enough, even increasing max bonuces and sample count to high values didn’t help), replaced those with cables
- added window shades
- added more devices, boxes and overall more clutter
- changed the camera angle and focal lenght
- moved objects around
Yes! But I’ve assumed this is rotating habitat, something that’s actually possible to do
I noticed the extras, clutter and plant etc. Only thing I might say is it is very clean and tidy. Now you can say tech keeps it all that way, but it might look more ‘real’ if lived in. Everything is brand new out of the box. Plant could have a leaf at the dying stage and a new leaf ‘bud’ in the center top. etc.
Do you need a wastepaper basket? lol see above.
And Yes! All spacecraft should be circular , spinning, or based on it for artificial gravity I have long thought that.
I hopoe the plant likes the interstellar sort of light; live as a space office person ain’t easy 