Josh’s Blender Progress

[Josh Canfield]

I made a robot for my primitive modeling challenge. 

[spikeyxxx]

Great job, Josh!

Good design. Hands and ‘wrists’ look really ‘attractive\pleasing’. Nice use of colors as well.

Did you use the Empty to pose the right arm?

[Josh Canfield]

Thanks! 

I completely missed that those lines were in there. I had just watched the tutorial about using collections to mirror things and that is the origin of the collection instance. Would that be considered an empty? 

[Josh Canfield]

Today continuing with Fundamentals of 3D Mesh Modeling in Blender, here is my single cube robot using extrude, subdivide and some scaling and moving. 

[spikeyxxx]

I don’t know how to mirror things using collections, but that is definitely an Empty;)

[Matthew Fricker]

Great start to your Blender journey 🙂 

[Josh Canfield]

I saw it in this video from Production Design with Blender 2.8 and Eevee

Cool Things About Collections – CG Cookie

[Josh Canfield]

Thanks! I’m making a point to try to do something new every day. 

[Josh Canfield]

Completed a few more lessons, learned about the knife tool and took a break to try my hand at a pumpkin. Then spent an hour trying to make lights look ok… They seem to have to be way closer than I would expect?

 

[spikeyxxx]

Thanks a lot Josh! I watched that a long time ago and completely forgot the part about Instancing a Collection .

The instance indeed comes in with an Empty:

And by the way: scaling by negative 1 is not the same as mirroring; it has the same effect when in Object Mode, but I use it quite a lot and when you are in Edit Mode this trick tends to flip the Normals. Easy to fix, but just something to be aware of.

[Josh Canfield]

Ah, interesting. I’ll watch out for that thanks!

[Josh Canfield]

Here is my Sci-Fi crate for Fundamentals of 3D Mesh Modeling in Blender. 

I really like carving with the knife tool. I found an image of an eagle head and traced it with the knife and extruded and beveled the edges…. lots of ngons, but I guess I’ll figure how out to deal with those later. 

[Josh Canfield]

I’m learning to 3D print while I’m learning blender, decided to give this model a try! This is 4cm diameter (1.57 in) around the widest part so I took an orange hi-liter and sharpie to bring out the features. It actually printed pretty well for being so small 🙂

[Josh Canfield]

Progress: Day three of working on my low poly room for  Fundamentals of 3D Mesh Modeling in Blender . 

I’m probably spending too much time on details that aren’t going to stand out, like the wicker basket pan holder… Eventually the pots and pans will be hanging on the wall

[Josh Canfield]

A little more progress.. 

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