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

[Grady Pruitt]

As Qui Gon Jinn says… there’s always a bigger fish! 😀  Nice!

[Grady Pruitt]

This is an awesome concept on the dragon  and night.  Love it!  

(I almost went into edit mode to taper some of the pieces on mine, but opted to leave it primitives 😀 )

[Grady Pruitt]

One of my challenges has been consistency, but those times when I have been consistent on working on something every day have been when I found the biggest explosion of my capabilities… not everything was great, but there were more great pieces as a result of the consistent effort.

[Ninive Kha]

Hi Kent,

Sorry I am not new to Blender/3D. I have used Blender before it was free, 2002 I think, and then later 2003-2006 I really got into it, I have learned the basics of modeling but at the time I was most interested in rigging and animation. I use Blender and 3D Max from time to time for modding games, but still not much modeling, so I think this class will be great to get me into modeling, one of my new year goal! 

[Kaj Suominen]

HOMEWORK SUBMISSION, BC1-1801, Week I

had fun with this one. using just primitives is not as easy that one might think, and certainly i normally do blocking out project bit different. 

first one:

the second one i cheated with particle simulations and displace modifiers and procedural materials other than those everything is primitives. main point for creating this was composition and i know its more advanced topics and I hope this isn’t coming as showing off, i’d really like to hear if the composition works or not, its something i’ve tried to understand lately and figuring out what makes pictures work.

[Matthew Ullrey]

For someone comfortable with Python scripting, this sounds like a great project to simplify this process. Then sell it on Blender Market. I would buy it. ^_^

[Matthew Ullrey]

Hey Kaj, I love the motorcycle design, fun use of the primitive forms. Your landscape is really detailed. It took me a little while to find the town in the background. I wonder what else is hidden in there. The town is following the rule of thirds and the nebulous clouds point my eye there. Unfortunately the dark blurry shadows in the foreground compete for the attention of my eye. If the render camera was elevated and angled down a little, perhaps the blurry trees and shadows would be more subtle. I love the color variations in the trees and ground which gives them a warm and earthy look. Great work!

[deadly_cicada]

HOMEWORK SUBMISSION, BC1-1801, Week I

Forrest Scene with Basic shapes:

Clouds and rocks are ico-spheres pushed/pulled with proportional editing.
Trees are 8 sided cylinders w/edges scaled out and dragged down.
House is a square with a few lines cut in to allow for a door.
Hills are made from the tops of spheres dragged up with proportional editing.
Background it world color set to blue.

Colors done by adding multiple colors to each object and selecting the faces I wanted to be that color and hitting “Apply”.

Hope it’s not too convoluted and over the top.

[nico_animation]

BC1-1801 Week 1 Homework Submission

Excuse my poor English, it is not my native language.

I used to work with Cinema4D some years ago. Then I recently discovered that Blender has improved a lot specially using Cycle render engine. So it made me want to practice again.

This picture is inspired by Disney’s castle. I made it using just primitives and I used Blender render.

[Scott McClellan]

Awesome. What movie are we watching?

[Tony Smith]

I was under the impression that using primitive shapes was not going into edit mode and altering the primitive shapes, just scale, rotation and translate? Or did i miss something. Could or done alot more if I could of  gone in edit mode.

[Scott McClellan]

I thought your scene was nice Tony. I don’t think this is a competition. lol. Just all learning and having fun. I think for the most part most of what I’ve seen has been primitives (with a tweak or two in edit mode).

[Tony Smith]

No its not a competition and some of the work is fantastic especially the dragon and the knight that was epic. Just a stickler for the rules and wish i’d just broke them too lol. 

[Zsolt Cseh]

Loving these emotions about the homework, like in a real class 😀

Anyway Tony you are right 🙂

[Zsolt Cseh]

That castle is wonderful 

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