Hochelf's Blender Progress

Don't want to forget the rocket from the previous course.

Nice job! I was hesitant at first too, but this community is very supportive! 

Primitive spider was awesome my friend.

Indeed a great spider! Keep it up!

Love the spider! Very creative use of primitives! Actually this encourages me to start following the publish instructions in the courses too.

Homework for today was, making a robot with extrusions, out of a cube. Well...

I stumbled a little bit while I tried to extrude two opposite faces simultaneous but it worked out somehow. Now I would love to know how to 'inset' the buttons in the middle so that all 16 faces turn into their own centre. I would like to make every button the exact same size.

That looks super fun!

There should be an option on inset menu to inset individuals.

Homework for today. I haven't done any experiments on this one, besides using a solidify modifier instead of the extrusion and scale operations on the latch.  And playing around with some HDRI for background lighting.

Thanks for the answer. :) And typically for my luck, the very next video would have explained exactly this as well. xD

Hochelf! You're on a roll! :D

Thanks. I hope I can keep up the pace for a while. :) The busy phase of the holiday season will start soon and I work in retail. So I have no clue how long I have time for the hobby.

I agree! Lots of great work in a small amount of time. Well done and keep it up! 

Current WIP for the LowPolyRoom exercise.

30 objects are very time-consuming. But I like how much can be accomplished just with tweaking simple shapes. 

Foundation is done. Clutter and Materials are for tomorrow.

The materials came out nicely. But I can't uif figure out the details on the phone and the books are chomped by the denoiser or if the light is just messing with me.

Submit version:

Yes, the culprit was the denoiser. XD

That is a nice low poly scene hhochelf . If you spread the books out a little bit and make them not all exactly lined up (just shift them a little) it will help sell the scene. A little more light intensity would help with the effect too.

You can always turn off the denoiser and just render more samples in cycles when you are ready for the final render. I like to think of the denoiser as a helper to get me up and running quickly so I can get the results previewed.

Started the sculpting tutorial yesterday. The first two chapters are so much info stuff, that I decided to chunk it down into more suitable sized bits.

Currently, I'm learning to deal with several brushes and get annoyed with the fact that I haven't developed the muscle endurance in my right hand for longer sessions with the pen. Seriously, how have professionals dealt with the numbness in their early days?

I set my desktop up in an ergonomic way, which means pen parallel to screen. Desk in a hight that allows for a straight back etc.

Btw. here is my current experimental piece for the brushes.

indeed this is good work, I like the spider...

keep going!!

Very nice beginner sculpting exercise.

sculpting is not currently one of my strengths but you are incorporating the important work habits.

make sure you take breaks and do hand stretches.

I use my ipad pro with easycanvas app as my pen tablet when sculpting. I don’t remember getting any sort of hand cramping but I have only sculpted a shark in recent past. So maybe other users could comment.