The story goes, that when admiral Nelson was shot at the battle of Trafalgar, it was decided to bury him at land and to conserve his body, it was put in a barrel of rum. Now the ordinary seamen didn't know about this and went on with their custom to drill a small hole in the barrel and suck out the rum through a straw.
Since then, in sailor's slang, rum is called 'Nelson's blood'.
I've been using Blender for about six years and still have never modelled a barrel; time to change that.
spikeyxxx That's a rather... morbid story, heh. And hey! Always something new to learn! Good start.
silentheart00 I know, I hope it's not inappropriate...
I have a slight Asperger's syndrome, so it's sometimes difficult for me to figure out what I can write;)
Anyway, I really like the old look of the reference. I think it will be a lot of fun to try and recreate that.
spikeyxxx Hey, I completely understand. One of my best friends has Asperger's, so it's no problem. I enjoyed the small tale, just wasn't expecting it to be so dark. Regardless, I enjoyed it.
And yeah! Going to be great texture work on that barrel!
silentheart00 Thank you, silent, I am also really looking forward to the texturing part!
spikeyxxx As you probably know I love a good bit of story to give some context, so I'm interested to see if you'll utilise it well. Keeping an eye on ya!
Sort of finished the barrel, although I will probably re-do it one more time...now that I know how to do it , that will take me less than an hour.
Started on the environment.
In case you are wondering, the wood of the barrel is of a really high quality, dried for at least two years; it won't crack! Now, this is going to be stylized, but I can't ignore that fact.
The rest of the wood will show alteration.
Setting up a scene, below deck of an old, abandoned ship.
This is how far I got now:
spikeyxxx great job so far! I like it that you put your barrel into a whole scene.
mmonaloren Thanks Mona. I'll have to model a few more boards; so far it's only two, but I was afraid of repeating myself too much, so I decided to get some sleep first;) Another day and another time of the day should give me some variation, hopefully.
@fide Thank you, I finished the modelling of the barrel too fast (even though I tried to take it slow), so time is left to do a bit more and I could have modelled the other objects, but, especially this barrel is asking to actually be somewhere...
