Reply To: COLLAB2021 – The Spice Must Flow (TSMF) Blog

Introduction

I believe that many people joined this project to learn.  While they may be aware of activities on their team, they may not see what other teams have developed.  That is, unless they are reading the ton of forum replies every day and looking at the multitude of WIP threads.  I hope to shine a little light on how we are using Blender to develop The Spice Vendor’s House.  This forum thread, or Blog, is not only focused on Blender challenges that we experience but also Blender Best Practices.

Part of what I want to do is to showcase project participants’ assets throughout this project.  The artwork (or work product) would be displayed along with the participant’s CG Cookie avatar and a link to their WIP.  I will be pulling from images the artist has already posted.  And, as needed, I may also use the artist’s Blend file to do screen captures of either procedural nodes or posed images.  If you would prefer to Opt-out of this and not have your work posted in this blog, please let Kent be aware at kent@cgcookie.com.

With such a late start into the project, please don’t expect that this blog to capture all project details in real time.  This blog will extend beyond the COLLAB2021-Week5-Closing on 4 May 2021.  I would like to document how we put The Spice Vendor’s House together by looking at specific modeling, shading and texturing techniques and best practices.  Including procedural nodes, which are being used extensively in the Nature section of our project.  That is just too much to document in the remaining two weeks.  But, in the remaining time to the official project end, I will do my best to provide some content in real time.  

So, let’s get started…

P.S. – There will be many memes based upon the movie Dune (1984) directed by David Lynch.  If you haven’t seen the movie in a while, give it a go!  I also apologize up front for my sense of humour.  

End Introduction