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…
As I threatened, I took my rendered cyberdeck and threw it into After Effects. Three times. After Effects (AE) is designed for video compositing as well as motion graphics, but there’s no native way to get 3D models into AE out of…
This was the first design I had come up with a few years ago when I first tried my hand at 3D modeling. The design hasn’t changed all that much, but as I have been getting further and further ahead with my…
Here we have it. A fully-from-scratch model. I don’t know why I decided to try my hand at modeling a wagon. After playing around with the Viper for a few days, I think I wanted something simple, and something that I could…
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”…
I ain’t calling it “done”, but for the most part, this first-pass 3D model of the Battlestar Galacatic (Reboot Edition) Colonial Viper Mk II is in a state where it’s a “whole” ship. I started this maybe 4 days ago, I think,…
After watching a series of videos on CGCookie.com in which the expert artist took concept art of a sci-fi pistol and modeled the living hell out of it, I said that yeah, OK…I understood everything he did, why he did it, and…
I’m writing this mere minutes after my previous post, because while the topics are related, they focus on different aspects of the same thing: how bullshit preconceived notions on how we assume things work really are. There was a great article a…