Ryan's Progress

Polybooks

September 18, 2023 5:48pm

Growing up the first thing I remember building with my own two hands was a spud launcher, so first primitive is

Mostly cylinders

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Good job spud!
Thumbs up! 👍

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Ryan Miller(Ryan_Miller) replied November 2, 2023 1:07pm

I was getting burning out with the creature modeling so I found something a little easier to handle. Was listening to David Bowie Space Oddity that inspired me to do the rocket launch project. I challenged myself to do as much of the project without using the videos and was able to model the ship and landing pad and when getting to the planet surface I didn't know about the modifiers. I think I did well I also added my own twist.

😍I LOVE IT

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Awesome! 🤘🏼
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Ryan Miller(Ryan_Miller) replied November 17, 2023 6:46am

I was working on the Procedural Lava Shader from Fundamentals of Texturing course and the Displacement node seemed to interesting not to try. I just can't believe you can model as much as I have with just a plane and nodes. I'm nowhere close to done where I'm going with this is having a body of water which you can see the start of. I've also added grass and trees with out the leaves. Then there is the volcano in the corner of course, where else would the lava come from. I'm just so blown away with what can be done with just nodes alone. Everything here is done with procedural nodes.

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Ryan Miller(Ryan_Miller) replied November 17, 2023 6:52am

As you can see even the grass as geometry. Its not perfect but hey its good for the first time and its not done yet.

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Omar Domenech replied November 17, 2023 1:01pm

Can totally relate, I can tell someone is getting hooked on the Blender. 🤙🏼
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Ryan Miller(Ryan_Miller) replied November 17, 2023 10:14pm

I've actually know about Blender since 2010 when I was scrolling through Youtube one night. I was really interested in learning more but life got in the way with a crappy job and a deployment to Afghanistan in the near future. After a crap deployment mostly leadership not backing me up and being treated like crap by active duty Army on the FOB I was assigned, I'm National Guard, I came back hating my MOS, unit, and most everyone around me so I decided to try my hand at blender again. I had built a beast of a rendering machine for the time AMD FX 8350 32GB RAM and 3 1080 Ti. All was going well at the time going to school for firefighting and working on learning Blender with Youtube tutorials when tragedy struck while coming home from drill I got into a car accident. I was fine but I lost my car and had to drop out of school as I couldn't make it. I had to get a unreliable car and fall back on the skills I hated at the time to get a job. I lost all motivation to do anything and went into a deeper depression. Lucky for me I deployed again to Somalia where I meet the greatest group of people that actually noticed me and cared enough to do something about the problem and helped me back to reality. Now years later I've retired and was looking a hobby to occupy my time and here I am. I only found about CGCookie from watching one of your videos on Youtube and thought why not give a real go at it this time. If you are wondering I was a 25B IT Specialist and 25Q Multi Channel Transmission Systems Operator overseas I worked on the strategic networks supporting the operation of the FOBs. I was deployed 3 times in for 13 years and 100% disabled.
Omar Domenech replied November 18, 2023 3:40pm

That is quite a story man. I'm glad you are ok now and found Blender and CG Cookie, it's a great hobby to have. We need hobbies outside the computer too though, plying the guitar would be that one.