Sitting around thinking about writing a few more paragraphs on my book, then procrastination took hold. I wanted to learn how to model with a 3D graphics application. It seemed like as good a time as ever. I draw freehand a bit and I had always wanted to render 3D art. I went so far as to load Blender a few years back but never looked at it. Until now.
I started with learning how to create an object and generally use the tool. It was quite frustrating at first as it seemed very counterintuitive. After a lot of mouse clicks and after several restarts, I ended up with a doughnut.
I have a tendency to dive into learning and this was no different than anything else. I was happy with the doughnut but want to get going on much more. Sigh, I still had a lot to learn.
The doughnut needed a plate to sit on. That was an eventful few hours of learning, through trial and error, on how to get a plate together. At least what might pass as a plate.
The plate looked like a plate. I also needed a mug. For this I needed some help from a tutorial on YouTube which walked me through setting up a cup from a cylinder and extruding a handle from the cup. I messed up the extrusion on one side. I'm showing the best side.
And the cup and doughnut with the bloody plate.
The final phase was to add some texture to the table top and duplicate the doughnut. I was only able to grab the image for the table and not the actual texture. It's in there but I could not figure out how to get it to come through to give the table the bumps and ridges(i'll have to figure that out).
Finally, I didn't realize that the screen was low resolution rendering as I would have had a better render of the mug and doughnut. I do have a much, much better and more exciting render in the works. I'm into about 10 hours on it already, and it's what I want to do... alien landscapes.
Hope you enjoy. Stay tuned for the alien landscape.
Here's a teaser
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