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eye strain? i barely saw her

cream soda, a warm and muted blender theme inspired by konbinis

eye strain? i barely saw her

i made a blender theme. it’s called cream soda and it’s at the bottom if you just want the file.

my theme has two sources of inspiration:

first, it’s all the blender girlies and boys who hear “eye strain” and go, who? i barely saw her. the ones who would rather risk it all for an aesthetic workspace. this theme turns opening blender into a little ritual i look forward to, instead of the full-body flashback i get from the after effects workspace, whose fonts are too small to read even on my giant external monitor. there is something genuinely nice about a cute place to work even when it’s on your desk.

the other half of it is japan. i went last year with my daughter and we ate exclusively at lawson and 7-eleven. i feel like japan exists in another dimension that runs on a fujifilm lut. everything was warm, muted, a little desaturated. but maybe i’m just remembering it that way. cream soda is me trying to bottle that and pour it over my modeling software.

try it

cream_soda.zip is below. drag it into blender and you’re done. works on blender 5.0.0 and up.

download cream soda