I've been on a bit of a break lately,...

I've been on a bit of a break lately, though I did spend little bits of time here and there trying to build a model for a head.  At present it's far too wide and blocky but those are easy to fix with scalling and subsurfing.  I previously created an eye system with a focus point, but for now I thought I'd throw up a simple shot of the head.  My next task will likely be body; but like I said I'm taking a bit of a break.

I heavily modified today's tutorial a...

I heavily modified today's tutorial as I really wasn't impressed with what I was offered.  I did learn about a neat feature which allows you to create multiple instances of an object instead of just duplicating it...  I'm getting too geeky here.  Regardless I'm getting quite confident in my manipulations of the 3D space, and I'm looking forward to more complex projects.  I'm also starting to get some visual ideas for my personal project when I'm done the tutorials and I think I'll be digging out my old sketchbook and pencils shortly.

I've been at work most of this weeken...

I've been at work most of this weekend, but I managed to squeeze in a few tutorial hours.  I spend a few more today learning about more complex models and experimenting with what I've learned so far.  No great accomplishments on this one, but it help cement the knowledge which is sometimes hard to do.

I completed two more turo

Today's focus was supposed to be on more advanced shaping.  Working with cylinders instead of cubes and stuff like that.  I did two tutorials, and at the end of each there was a little side path to explore colour and lighting.  I took both paths, and learned a lot in the process.  It took me a while to fuddle my way through some of the stuff, but I'm glad I did.

I made some decent progress t

I completed a tutorial of a penguin today.  I was excited because the end product was a coloured picture.  As it turned out, the end product was not, but there was a foot note saying, "you can even colour it, but that's for another lesson."  I was pretty disappointed, just ask my wife.

Regardless I pressed on, and was pleasantly rewarded when the next tutorial contained some unexpected guidance.

 

Will I Blend?

Will I Blend?

 

Calm down!  I do not intend on sticking myself in a blender.  Okay, now that we're all settled down allow me to explain myself.

 

I was Digging a couple weeks ago and I found this article about 3D rendering and animation using an open source program called Blender.  Now it just so happened that I was embroiled in the an online world at the time and didn't pay too much attention to my new toy; but my subscription expired yesterday and I found myself with some free time.

 

I've started running through a very detailed tutorial and I'm learning quite a bit.  As with any knowledge however, if you don't apply it you lose it.  Thus I have decided to create and publish my works here as a record and an outlet.  I will of course be starting off embarrassingly slow and weak, though I have some cool inspiration to help me along.

 

Here's a rendering of one of my first projects.  Fancy?  No.  But considering how little I've invested it's pretty cool to see some of the potential.

 

I have recently noticed that I can also record video while I'm running the program so I may eventually have some footage of myself working as well as some final product.