Tag Archives: Blender

Modular Modelling

Up until know, I’ve been following tutorials on modelling in Blender and they all use box modelling. However, I wonder if I could take a modular approach instead, and model parts of the character separately, then merge them together. The only reference images I have (short of drawing my own) are three-quarter views, which are a lot harder to model from a face or side view. So, if I model say the leg and foot independently, I can clone it and attach it to the torso.

Going to branch my Bitbucket repo and give this a go.

Alignment

English: Sintel posterNow I see why my previous attempts to model in Blender didn’t succeed – my reference images were not level and not the same scale. Whilst there was nothing mentioned on the tutorials at Blender Cookie (in those tutorials, the reference images came already prepared), the first step that Angela Guenette (modeller on the Sintel short – cover on the right) on the Blenderella DVD immediately mentioned is to prepare the reference images in GIMP: rotating, scaling, and adding horizontal reference lines to allow you to line up features across the various reference images.

Wish I’d known about this before spending time on my last modelling attempt. :/

Oh, well, you learn from mistakes.

 

Easter

Extended weekend coming up. Going to be doing a lot of cleaning. Might actually be able to get started on the Blender project mentioned in my previous post.

New Project: Yu Gi Oh 5Ds

The main characters and their Signer marks. Fr...

I am starting a new Blender project, or, more specifically, restarting it. I’m going to attempt to model some of the characters from the anime Yu Gi Oh! 5Ds. I have it on a Bitbucket Git repository at the moment (it is a private repository at the moment), but may make it public at a later date.