Since my last post I decided to improve on the model and background a bit to give it a more of a realistic space and metal texture. To improve on my simple background, I downloaded an HDRI map of space from here, which also shows what the map would look like: Then I wanted to […]
Assignment 1
Tie Fighter
This week’s assignment was to make and animate a Tie Fighter from Star Wars. This seemed like a really daunting task at first but once I got into it was pretty easy, by breaking the ship into simpler shapes I was able to model something that could be recognised as a Tie Fighter. The […]
Exploring the Edit Tool in Blender
This week we were making some more complicated items in Blender by using the Edit menu. Expanding on our basic primitives and learning to break down items into the idea of a wire mesh and getting into the habit of making sure any N-gons get tidied into Quads. The first item I modelled with my […]
Animated Snowman
So, for this week the goal was to create and animate a snowman in blender. So, I focused on getting the form of the snowman created using the basic shapes and resizing them to fit together and look right using the basic shapes. Then I learnt the basics of parenting my objects to each other […]
First 3D Model- Table and Chairs
So for my first task I had to make a table and chairs, and this was quite a daunting task for me as I had never tried any sort of 3D software or modelling before. So I tried my hardest, followed along with the example and with some minor hiccups I made a recognisable table […]