[ENDED] BC3-1806 – June 2018 Class Homepage – Vehicle Modeling with Blender

[William Miller]

@theluthier That’s fine for tanks, but what about a vehicle from my imagination?  Someday I want to make all manner of Planetainyan vehicles, most of which fly, and none of which I can find blueprints for.

[Jose Vergara]

@theluthier Not yet. Maybe something like a Ford T or similar.

[Kent Trammell]

@calmadigital Ooo nice, you really mean *classic*. I like it 👍

[Jack]

@theluthier I finished my blueprint! Did I miss anything?

 

I had so much fun doing this one I’m going to do quite a few more!

[William Miller]

You should make a course about drawing blueprints.

[Zach Zellman]

@theluthier I was thinking about ways I could achieve that! Maybe very low-res sculpting first. Or I was thinking about making a base with metaballs! I was reading the Blender Manual while I was bored at work today lol. I want to try it out since when they get close to each other they smoothly mush together, and then retopo on top of it! I gotta play around with it a little and see what happens! I’m really excited to try modeling this! Hopefully I can do it justice!!! 

[Kent Trammell]

@williamatics That’s where week 4 comes in – Vehicle concept sculpting! Outside of that, I mean anything can be modeled without modeling sheets/blueprints. It’s just a more difficult, vague approach. Perhaps the next time I run this class I’ll model without blueprints.

[Kent Trammell]

@jack07 Wait…you made this blueprint from scratch without a 3D model to generate it from?

[Kent Trammell]

@zachzellman I tend to favor sculpting anytime a shape seems tricky; that is sculpt + retopo. I’ve never retopo’d metaballs before.  I assume that’s possible 😅

Lol reading the Blender Manual because you’re bored means you had to be REALLY bored haha

[William Miller]

@theluthier I read it for fun.  I’m up to Face Tools now!

[Jack]

@theluthier Yep! I took some photos of the toy as closer to an orthographic view as I could with my phone, then I drew over them with the the line and simple shapes tool with a mirror in Krita to complete the view! It was easy only because the figure’s only round shape is the wheels haha!

Having the finished product in your hands also helps! 

[Zach Zellman]

@theluthier lol just trying to expand my knowledge haha! I think you have to convert the metaballs to a mesh before you can retopo on it.

[Kent Trammell]

@jack07 I’m quite impressed! Well done 🤘

[William Miller]

I love that gyrocopter!  Wait, could you make an untriangulated version please?

[Jack]

@theluthier Thanks! 😊

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