[ENDED] BC1-1801 – January Class Homepage – Getting Started with 3D Modeling & Blender

[Jere Haapaharju]

Nice, both models look that they are ready 🙂

[Grady Pruitt]

The gumbas are coming! the gumbas are coming! Someone get Mario and Luigi! Quick! Before they get Princess Peach! 😀

Great job!

[snurker]

I really like the look of this. It is inspiring to see how you can use modeling and sculpting together to get the best of both worlds.

[Kent Trammell]

Nice work @snurker! How big is your rock’s baked texture? Seems like it’s really low res (512×512 is my guess). Your goomba is pretty spot on. Smooshed a few of those this morning before work 😎

I really feel that I have improved my sculpting a bit by doing this exercise. The different sculpting tools start to make more sense and I start to get a feeling which brush to use to get the effect I need.

That’s a huge win! Great job finishing the class. You’ve earned an A 👍

[Kent Trammell]

Sorry for the late reply @csehz, missed this one somehow. The smooth brush often does result in slighting shrinking on convex shapes, but with concave shapes it’s the opposite. Also with an extreme pole in the topology, the smooth brush can create a noticeable pinch instead of shrinking. I think an “average of vertices” is the best description of its function, which can result in shrinking if the conditions are right.

If the size of your sculpture is changing noticeably from the smooth brush, I’d say you’re using it too much or too strongly. Relying too heavily on the smooth brush can be a negative thing.

[Zsolt Cseh]

Thanks @theluthier for the answer no probs at all. Yes I did not think even that at concave shapes it might behave right opposite.

Going to explore your technique that in which kind of situation/surface from which angle and with which pressure you use the Smooth brush in the tutorials, thanks just again.

Och and also that with which brush size, because presumably those averages calculated from the surface covered by that, plus also factor that with what kind of movements happens the smoothing. For example for me with the mouse that is slightly more tricky 🙂

[Alice Hart]

Awesome Charmander, it really feels like it’s ready to make a move!

[Alice Hart]

BC1-1801 Week 4 Homework Submission

This sums up what I learned in this awesome month.

Thank you Kent for your dedication and can’t wait for March to come around!

[Matt Dickun]

BC1-1801 Week 4 Homework Submission

This is what I did this week for the final assignment.

[LJ Simpson]

Great characterization on the goomba! Love that expression.

[Kent Trammell]

Looking good Alice! You’ve done a lot this month! Thanks for participating and submitting homework. You’ve earned an A this week 👍

[Kent Trammell]

You nailed it, Matt. I see….nothing to critique! Really nice job. Way to finish the month strong: grade-A stuff! 👌

[Kent Trammell]

THUS ENDETH THE CLASS

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It’s February 1st, meaning this January Class is officially over. Congrats to the Citizens who made it through! I’d like to close out the class with some some commendations.

Most Consistent: I’m quite impressed with the number that completed homework each of the 4 weeks. Out of 45 total members that submitted, 15 completed all 4 weeks according to my records. I want to commend those members:

• Grant Reid ( @arkesh )
• Nathan Garduno ( @nathangarduno )
• @motsu 
• Yannis Sayeh ( @galledark )
• Paul Haynes ( @paulhaynes1955 )
• Matthew Ullrey ( @ullreym )
• Andreia Schemid ( @ninivekha )
• LJ Simpson ( @ljsstudio )
• Zsolt Cseh ( @csehz )
• Katerina Novakova ( @shiennar )
• John Sanderson ( @procyonlotor )
• Matt Dickun ( @az93 )
• Jaz McDaniel ( @jmac05 )
• Matthew Gayton ( @mathias67 )
• @monaloren 

Guinan Award: Grady Pruitt ( @gradyp ) was extraordinarily present in the class thread offering critique, advice, and helpful insight. It takes a lot of time and commitment to be there for fellow classmates. Thank you for being such a resource this month 👏

Volunteer Instructor’s Assistant: Zsolt Cseh ( @csehz ) voluntarily created a spreadsheet for tracking participants and homework assignment grades: A report card, if you will. If this was not done, I would not have been able to keep a record. Thank you, Zsolt! Feel free to check it out yourself to see how you did.

Highest Grade: Katerina Novakova ( @shiennar ) scored the highest grades on her homework with a combined total of 190 XP. BTW I calculated that value for everyone by adding individual grades based on this scale: F = 0, D = 10, C = 20, B = 30, A = 40, + = 5. I’m going to manually add those XP values to everyone’s current total.

Most Common Name: We had 3 Matthews this month, all of which were very active and completed the 4 homework assignments. May it be that we all are able to summon the Matthew Power in the future 🧙‍♂️

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Honestly, as a first class, this could not have gone better. I’m so impressed with everything I witnessed: The learning, quality of homework, and the it-takes-a-village culture. Thank you for participating! I hope expect to see you in future classes 🙇🏻‍♂️

[Matt Dickun]

I look forward to the next class.

[Zsolt Cseh]

Super we got XPs for the homeworks, that is great idea to motivate the members also for the future classes. Thanks!

Regarding my volunteership that was just nothing, I like the statistics so just naturally came. I am so glad that Kent you found it as a good initiation.

Katerina @shiennar especially would like congratulate for the Highest Grade, I love those worlds what you create in Blender, being your fan since the first homework and the fourth one is just brilliant.

Kent @theluthier thank you of course for everything, the lot of instructions/motivations/inspirations, it is a good feeling that we can learn the sculpting from the best

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