3D Modeling

I studied Blender years ago and understood the fundamentals at the time, but without regular use I lost much of that knowledge.

I’ve wanted to return to 3D modeling ever since; just never gave it the time it deserved.

Now, I’m rebuilding from the ground up, shape by shape, object by object.

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February (Weeks 1-4)

Donut

The challenge started with a classic donut tutorial by Blender Guru.

The project is still ongoing, but I am quite satisfied with how it turned out so far.

Book

When working on the visuals for a small work project, I wanted a 3D render of a book and ended trying out a simple tutorial on YouTube.

Next step would be figuring out shadowing and render.

Progress on the donut tutorial didn't quite advance as fast as I would've wanted it to but at least things are still moving forward.

Materials were added to the objects and for another layer of difficulty; I wanted to make a radioactive donut.

I had figure out how to make it glow by using the Bloom filter by myself. There was quite a lot of contradicting information online since the way to apply the Bloom filter in version 5 is different from before. It didn't quite work out either until I figured out, I had to play around with the Emission setting of the material.

March (Weeks 5-8)

During the month of March, I delved into various YouTube tutorials, starting with Grant Abbitt's low poly well tutorial.

I discovered I really liked short and simple "follow along" type tutorials. They teach the essential tools and shortcuts needed for what's being built without throwing too much information at you.

Afterwards, I tried making a little ramen shop with one of Polygon Runway's tutorials and really fell in love with the style of modeling and rendering. That is when the 3D skill took over all my focus since it was the only thing I wanted to do. I've tried and done a few of his other tutorials too.

All these tutorials inspired me to start modeling my own office space which will take a while but will be quite gratifying to complete.

March ends with about 72 hours left on the challenge.

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