William Miller’s New and Improved Polybook

[William Miller]

[William Miller]

I decided not to use an explosion modifier because the effect from that distance wasn’t really noticeable.  Instead I will use a material that becomes invisible when the rocket explodes.

[William Miller]

Shading is done.  I will render it tonight, and then perhaps I will composite it.

[William Miller]

After painstakingly rendering and editing the video, I saw that it flickered, the explosions were out of sync, and the smoke didn’t show up.  I tried to attach the .blend file, but Pasteall wouldn’t work for some reason.

[William Miller]

In fact, I would rather a built-in file attachment feature be added than a dozen new courses published.

[Cookie Dough]

Just make sure you remember what you are doing it for. If you’re doing it to learn, the learning stops when you are tweaking small values. If you are doing it for the result, keep going how you are and get a near perfect result.

[William Miller]

It turns out that the reason pasteall wasn’t working is because my .blend file is more than 30 MB.  Does anyone know of any alternatives?

[spikeyxxx]

Hi William,

Dropbox has a free, basic account, that has 2 GB of storage and more than that as a limit per file.

Google Drive gives you 15 GB for free if you have a Gmail account and there are some limits for documents, spreadsheets and presentations, but for all other files the max size is something like 2 TB.

There are many more, but these are the ones I have used myself.

[William Miller]

Thank you!

[William Miller]

I’ve kind of given up on the fireworks animation because I’ve pretty much completed it already, and I’ve already learned a lot from it.  Next, I’m going to make an Industrial Thing in a similar low-poly style.  Here’s what I have so far (human for scale):

Critiques are welcome.

[Cookie Dough]

The best critique I can give you is, I don’t know what it is… It looks like it might be a receiving/broadcasting station or something.

[William Miller]

To be honest, I don’t know what it is either.  I was just messing around, and I though the shapes I put together looked like an industrial thing.  Do you have any ideas for what it could be?

[Cookie Dough]

It’s best to begin with the end in mind, even if it doesn’t turn out like  you had planned. 

[William Miller]

I couldn’t think of what to make my previous project into, so I made something else.  I am making some ruins.

This will be my last low-poly project.  The next one will be high-resolution.

Should I add the cracks between the bricks as a texture, or should I model it in?

[William Miller]

What do you guys think of this layout?

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