Jan started Blender training

[Jan Köster]

Hey there, I am new to CG Cookie. Some tutorials start with a snowman, so I just made one myself after 3 days of hours of watching videos. Fidgeting in Blender so much, until I found how to change material properties and sculpted a bit…

[Martin Bergwerf]

That’s a great looking snowman, Jan!

[Derek Chestnut]

Woah! The render blew my mind when I saw it, haha.

Definitely outside the scope of modeling with primitives, as mesh editing is apparent, but this result is a breath of fresh air injected into the collection of snowman renders from that course, including my own…

Nicely done!

[Derek Chestnut]

I don’t know why, but the hat reminds me of Vivi from Final Fantasy IX. XD

[Jan Köster]

Hah yes, I get that with Vivi!

Yesterday I tried to combine noise textures to displacements and also used subsurface scattering with a blue tint, rendered a bit longer then. A few tweaks later I improved my snowman more 😀

I see why the middle ball is more noisy than the rest. I used the object as mapping for the noise and the middle topology is one subdivision modifier higher, so more fine snow-detail. Could just apply one more SDM to the other 2 balls and lower the noise detail, or decimate the middle one…but…I think for “starting” I already overdone this snowman project and should move on xD

[Omar Domenech]

Wow super update, it now looks very realistic. One of the best snowman’s we’ve had man, nice.

[Jan Köster]

Testing volumetric materials! I saw that little deco orb in my bedroom and needed to quickly model it to test out how volumetric materials work 😀

[Jan Köster]

I also created some marble with procedural texturing, because after digging into modelling and sculpting, I wanted to concentrate more in texturing and shading.

[Jan Köster]

And I just made some fancy lava material~

[Jan Köster]

And of course after making the classic donut tutorial I also tried the anvil to get a bit into mask mapping and baking textures…

[Jan Köster]

Sculpted my plush dog from childhood day’s here :]

[Jan Köster]

Here I tested how hair systems work. I thought about those coal critters from Chihiro’s Journey 😀

[Jan Köster]

Talking about rather easy geometry. It’s just an orb, but with NASA photography to texture it!

[Martin Bergwerf]

Cool updates Jan!

[Omar Domenech]

Lots of cool stuff. I like the hairy creature. It’s like he’s in electrical shock forever.

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