Category: 3D Modeling

Thanks to the first episode of the fifth season of The Expanse, I remember that in a future, not all space ships are exciting or glamorous. Take the Barbapiccola above. According to an Expanse wiki, the Barb was taken by refugees escaping…

I got it in my head to make a space ship of some kind, and I started with one of the engine pods. I really like it; I think it looks good in it’s relative low-poly form. Unfortunately, I can’t think of…

Although I often bemoan my ability to stick with a project or a discipline (aptly named, methinks) for very long, I almost always return to the scenes of my past crimes whether they be game development, writing, specific games, or, in today’s…

Before I throw myself completely off the cliff into bottomless waters, I wanted to segue into more complicated models by way of lesser geometric opportunities. Again, blocks and panels and cylinders are fairly easy to manipulate using simple tools, and Great Things…

UV unwrapping is the precipitous drop after having finished my Viper model. In Blender, before preparing it for export to Painter, the model looks good. Not great, but pretty good. As I think I mentioned before, I relied on the “Smart Unwrap”…