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#I'm making progress I swear #edi stop rambling #and procrastinating too #jewelry project #I was trying to wrap a cone around a thing but it didn't end well

Jewelry project

Yess I finished watching all the tutorials! Now onto the first project:

The object of this project is to model and texture a piece of jewelry. Your jewelry can either be of your own design or it can be patterned after an existing piece of jewelry.

Your jewelry must be placed in an environment that best displays its attributes. This might be a “store-type” display stand or it might be placed in some suitable (or unsuitable) surrounding.

#this should be interesting #i have an idea in mind already ;)#jewelry project #edi stop rambling

Plans for the near future

As far as my modeling skyllz are concerned, I still intend to follow the official Blender tutorials, because I need to learn what the editor can do before I’m able to use it at its full potential. I watched two more sections today (about Modifiers and Scenes) and I have 5 more to go until I’m done with the beginner course. As homework of sorts there are 8 projects to do. They seem to leave much more space to creativity and initiative than the excercises at the end of each section (you may remember the horrible monstrosity that was the Shark Project) which I’m really excited about :D For example, I peeked and in the first one I’m supposed to design a piece of jewelry and set it in an environment that “best displays its attributes” which sounds awesome.

After that there’s a tutorial about modeling a human head. Now, the reason I’m rushing the beginner tutorials is that my end goal is to model photorealistic scenes with people in them, so I’m really looking forward to that!

So yeah! I’ll be watching tutorials for a while, then modeling the aforementioned projects, then watching more tutorials :D

#I thought a little update would be nice #so here it is #the tutorials are getting more interesting so it's easier to rush past them now #edi stop rambling

Scrolling

#Well this was fun to make #this counts as visual poetry I guess?#it's more of a proof of concept than anything though #but I like this #it can be a very flexible style #as a side note this is the highest quality gif that Tumblr will let me upload #which sucks #so I went and made a DeviantArt account :D #anyway I'll stop rambling and put the actual tags #edi tries to master the three dimensions #finished #scrolling project #blender #poetry #visual poetry #edit: instead of a crappy gif I put the first frame here #click the link for the actual gif ^^

My laptop makes weird sounds when rendering animations.

(Read: new model coming up soon! :D)

#I've been inactive for a long time I know #but the new semester started and yeah #also I put aside the mosque model because I was trying to go in too many different directions at the same time (metaphorically I mean) witho #without the organization needed to pull it off #ergo #it's a mess and I'm not too inclined to unmess it atm #I have cooler stuff in mind

When in doubt, add more domes.

#that's how it works right?#mosque project #edi tries to master the three dimensions

So I started working on a mosque, this is what I’ve got so far. I’m not entirely satisfied with the shape of the dome, it should probably be a little chubbier, right now it looks like an egg, haha. But yeah, mosques have fascinating architecture, I hope I’ll be able to make one that gets at least somewhat close to them ^^

#edi tries to master the three dimensions #mosque project

Now I’m not really sure what to do. The options are to start watching the animation section of the tutorials, keep going with one of my unfinished projects (one is a creepy still nature composition, the other a panel from Homestuck), or starting an easier one. I was thinking about a mosque maybe? Hmm.

If you have a suggestion/request go ahead and tell me ^^

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#the question mark is there to enable the reply feature #edi stop rambling

Another terrible exercise is done! Dear Mr. Hirsig, that’s not how torchlights work, the reflectors make the beam be straight, not with a 45° angle :P

But now that this is out of the way, I can start the new section which is about animations! I’m really excited for it :D

#I guess I shouldn't complain about these excercises too much #they do teach me useful stuff even though they're terribly boring and they make my eyes bleed #torchlight blender tutorial #edi tries to master the three dimensions #finished

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I want this knife

#I was playing with procedural textures and this happened

So, I haven’t posted anything for a while because, well, I’m working on a model that requires quite a bit of research. As an example, there will be a knife in it, but this is the best I could come up with so far:

Now, it’s not actively bad, but it feels fake. The blade reflects too much light, but if I lower the reflectivity it just looks like plastic. Real knives look like this:

So yeah, I’m mostly looking into making better materials atm.

As a side note, I didn’t expect the Cruxtruder to get notes! :O If you followed me because of it, know that I’ll probably make more hs models in the future. Maybe even animations, we’ll see. In any case, welcome ^^

#edi stop rambling #I'm baffled that post is closing in on 700 notes wth

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I just started working on a new model. It’s quite more complicated than the cruxtruder one, I’m not even sure if I have the knowledge needed to pull it off. Well, there’s only one way to find out! ^^

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Yep, it’s slightly out of my reach for now, since as it turns out simulating cloth is pretty complicated. I’ll get started on other parts of it then, and come back later to finish it.

It’s going to be a still life composition :D

#edi stop rambling

I just started working on a new model. It’s quite more complicated than the cruxtruder one, I’m not even sure if I have the knowledge needed to pull it off. Well, there’s only one way to find out! ^^

#I also need a name for it #hmm #edi stop rambling

Yikes. I’m on a roll today, but at what price? The old Blender tutorials are so bad!

#oh well I learned stuff I guess #edi tries to master the three dimensions #finished #bugle blender tutorial

"EB: why is the floor shaking?”

#I like how this turned out to be #homestuck #cruxtruder #3d modeling #blender #cruxtruder project #edi tries to master the three dimensions #finished

Look at that lighting (so dramatic I love it)

Anyway I’m almost finished with this Cruxtruder, I only need to smooth that top cylinder, apply the textures and change the lights.

#but I'm done for today #this was way more enjoyable than the excercises on blender.com or whatever #edi tries to master the three dimensions #cruxtruder project

A little preview! ;D yes I’m hs trash

#this should be easy enough to do and I need to become familiar with blenders tools so I'm doing it!#edi tries to master the three dimensions #cruxtruder project

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