3D Practice

[bcholmes]

I’ve been trying to grow my skill with Blender, and a big part of my approach has been to re-model some stuff that I’d previously modelled in SketchUp.

And, yes, there’s more Star Trek stuff, ’cause that’s what I was mostly toying with when I was playing with SketchUp.

An early re-model was this wire-framed chair that shows up in some of the later TNG movies.

Blender has some different approaches to particular modelling tasks. In this case, I was using curves to get the frame of the chair. Basically, I draw out the lines that the frame follows, and then give those lines some substance, making it seem like it’s made of metal tubing.

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Mirrored from Under the Beret.

Comments

[sabotabby]

These look so cool!

I really want to learn how to do 3D modelling. I've had approximately no luck teaching myself; I feel like I need someone physically standing over my shoulder to teach me what I'm doing wrong. Which under the present circumstances...sigh.

[bcholmes]

I can point you at some of the tutorials I've followed, if that's interesting to you.

Andrew Price's donut tutorial, ferexample, is really comprehensive and is good for complete newbs. The only hiccup is he's using a Windoze machine and the keybindings are slightly different with Macs.

[sabotabby]

*covers face in shame*

I tried the donut tutorial and didn't get anywhere with it.

[bcholmes]

Okay, then. Wanna schedule a futzing with Blender get-together some time after the pandemic, but before the revolution?

[sabotabby]

ohmyfuck yes.

[bcholmes]

Also: if you wanna try a tutorial with a very different style, you should give Ian Hubert's videos a try. I'm a big fan of his tutorial on moths.

[sabotabby]

Holy fuck. That was way too fast for my brain to parse but it was also incredible.