Homework Submission: Creating a Wall of Mailboxes

[Shawn Blanch]

@theluthier  This one has been on my to-do list for a while Kent. I added some internal lights inside the doors to trigger internal lamps when opened (like a prestigious mailbox for the wealthy lol). 

I did not do the shading as well as your’s but I tried my own go at it and I really like the red glass color drawing the eye in.

[Mark Smith]

looks good

[Shawn Blanch]

Thanks Mark. I’m finally working some of the harder courses (at least harder for me haha)

[Kent Trammell]

Excellent @blanchsb! You’re making your way through our library at an impressive pace. How was it learning from this [old] course? Was it difficult translating to 2.8x?

[Shawn Blanch]

@theluthier  If I were a complete noob to blender: it would have been extremely hard on a few areas. The layout is different enough that I would have spent more time and frustration on where things were, But if you know your way around blender basics the  you can get by well enough on your own. I didn’t have hardly any trouble until it came to the shading and compositing.

I tried using the principled bsdf but I couldn’t figure it out using the workflow you were doing with the diffuse and other shaders.

I’m not saying that isn’t possible but I don’t think I am a shader master yet so I don’t know how to adapt “old ways” to “the new principled bsdf” ways. So I just tossed the new out and followed your workflow as best as I could, with my own tweaks.

 The knife project threw me for a loop a lot. In the end I just used a boolean because I could not get knife project to work at the time. Spikey has since helped out on that.

One bonus of having some more experience is that I know when to use inset when people are extruding and scaling to perform the same functionality.

I’m finding that running through the tutorials at half speed is really helping a lot.

Long story short: for intermediate users the old stuff is still excellent. I learned a lot still

[Kent Trammell]

Thanks for the feedback @blanchsb! We always want to keep our older content around if it’s relevant and not too outdated. Getting a pulse like this helps a lot. 🤝

[Matthew Fricker]

Great work man , I love the idea of the light when they are open 🙂 

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