Wednesday, 26 November 2008

Week 8 - 3 Point Lighting

Week8 video tutorial - link from maries blog

Wednesday, 12 November 2008

Week 7 - Fork

From video tutorial, link on Mari's blog



Useful techniques
  • Lattice deformations

Ideas for Assignment

Assignment ideas


For my external scene I think I will attempt a forest of some sort with maybe a temple or some sort of building in it.


I may like to have some dark and possible magical elements to it also.






For my internal scene I think I will attempt to do the inside of a temple or a large, grand building.
I would like to implement pillars and some nice temple style textures.
I would like the temple to be present in the forest so the outside is also visible.

Wednesday, 5 November 2008

Week 6 - Moon Thingy

Marie's blog, week 6 - http://mojo.csd.anglia.ac.uk/cgat/marie/3d-modelling-and-animation/week-6/




Useful techniques
  • ADD OBJECTS IN OBJECT MODE!!
  • Extrude Dup
  • Spin

Wednesday, 29 October 2008

Week 5 - Flower

From video tutorial http://www.gryllus.net/Blender/3D.html

Link to flash vodeo http://www.screencast.com/users/Neal/folders/Flash/media/6fcb0906-13d6-4d44-94dd-bd011f6feea3



Useful techniques

  • Ctrl Click after selecting a face to extrude.

Wednesday, 22 October 2008

Wednesday, 8 October 2008

Week 3 - Proportional Editing

From Marie's blog, my attempt at creating apples.



Useful Techniques

  • R - Rotate hotkey
  • B - Select multiple vertices
  • Ctrl + J - Join objects

Week 3 - Rendering

Follow on from tutorial















Useful Techniques

  • Anti-aliasing to smooth edges
  • F12 - Render image
  • F3 - Save rendered image

Wednesday, 1 October 2008

Week 2 - Pill

Follow on from the same tutorial as week 1

















Useful Techniques

  • A - Deselect/Reselect All
  • B - Block Select
  • G - Move
  • E - Extrude
  • R - Rotate
  • - Jump to size when formatting
  • - Object/Edit mode

Week 1 - Castle

Tutorial - http://mojo.csd.anglia.ac.uk/marie/docs/BlenderCourse-Basics_EN_v1.0.pdf

















Useful Techniques

  • Ctrl + Shift - Duplicate

  • Hold X, Y or Z - Lock Axis

  • Hold Ctrl - Snap to Grid

Week 1 - Simple House