Although I started this assignment having never even opened 3D modelling software before, and have definitely made mistakes along the way, I can now create composite pieces using a variety of skills, and growing in confidence week by week, I’ve shown progression; my work becoming more detailed and complex as time went on. I didContinue reading Assignment 1 Reflection
For this final assignment, I was tasked to model and UV map a helmet of my choosing in Blender, before then adding textures to it in Substance 3D Painter. As Adobe Substance Painter is a programme I’m unfamiliar with and hadn’t known existed before now, I was honestly quite hesitant at first to start theContinue reading Week 5 Assignment: Creating a Helmet
In this week’s workshop, we widened our knowledge of texturing an object, by using our first 3D application; Adobe Substance 3D Painter. The effects within Substance Painter are created from adding base colour layers that can then be masked to either display, or apply content to specific parts of the object, using two options: polygonContinue reading Week 5 Workshop: An Introduction to Adobe Substance 3D Painter – War Hammer
This week, my task was to model and unwrap a sword using the UV mapping and texturing principles learned during lectures. As I was creating a model independently for the first time, instead of jumping straight in and choosing a reference from which to model my final outcome, I decided play around with the software,Continue reading Week 4 Assignment: Sword
In this week’s workshop, I learned about the elements involved in texturing and UV mapping. Texturing (the process of adding texture to a shader or material) affects the characteristics of an object, for example how reflective, shiny, or transparent the object is. In animation there are two common ways of achieving texture: (1) amending theContinue reading Week 4 Workshop: An Introduction to Texturing and UV Mapping
For week three’s assignment, I was asked to create a 3D model of a Zubat; a nocturnal, chiropteran, Poison/Flying type Pokémon found in dark caves, first introduced in the Generation I games. Being a Pokémon fan, and my brother having avidly collected the cards, I was quite familiar with the character and eager to startContinue reading Week 3 Assignment: Zubat
This week the workshop focused on creating object using curves, and design elements such as colour, transparency and viscosity. Two tasks were set to assist the learning process – building a milkshake, and building a vase. The Milkshake task To design the lid, starting with a sphere, which makes the creation of the domed lidContinue reading Week 3 Workshop: Curves
This week’s assignment was to create and animate a TIE Interceptor, first seen in Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi. Not being a huge Star Wars fan, and not having watched the original trilogy for many years, after looking at reference materials online, my first impression was that this was going to beContinue reading Week 2 Assignment: TIE Interceptor
Moving on to week two, it was time to up my game by making some more challenging, and realistic objects in Blender, with the first object I modelled using these newly acquired skills, a skateboard. Every model still starts with basic mesh shapes, and as before the goal is to figure out the simplest pathContinue reading Week 2 Workshop: Using the Edit Mode in Blender
For my first assignment I was asked to create and animate a snowman in Blender, with extra credit (yes please!) given for adding a simple background. So, armed with the information from my Blender tutorials to date, and the image of the snowman firmly fixed in my head, I set about creating my version fromContinue reading Week 1 Assignment: Animated Snowman
