@theluthier This one has been on my to-do list for a while Kent. I added some internal lights inside the doors to trigger internal lamps when opened (like a prestigious mailbox for the wealthy lol).Â
I did not do the shading as well as your's but I tried my own go at it and I really like the red glass color drawing the eye in.
Thanks Mark. I'm finally working some of the harder courses (at least harder for me haha)
Excellent blanchsb! You're making your way through our library at an impressive pace. How was it learning from this [old] course? Was it difficult translating to 2.8x?
@theluthier If I were a complete noob to blender: it would have been extremely hard on a few areas. The layout is different enough that I would have spent more time and frustration on where things were, But if you know your way around blender basics the  you can get by well enough on your own. I didn’t have hardly any trouble until it came to the shading and compositing.
I tried using the principled bsdf but I couldn’t figure it out using the workflow you were doing with the diffuse and other shaders.
I’m not saying that isn’t possible but I don’t think I am a shader master yet so I don’t know how to adapt “old ways” to “the new principled bsdf” ways. So I just tossed the new out and followed your workflow as best as I could, with my own tweaks.
 The knife project threw me for a loop a lot. In the end I just used a boolean because I could not get knife project to work at the time. Spikey has since helped out on that.
One bonus of having some more experience is that I know when to use inset when people are extruding and scaling to perform the same functionality.
I’m finding that running through the tutorials at half speed is really helping a lot.
Long story short: for intermediate users the old stuff is still excellent. I learned a lot still
Thanks for the feedback blanchsb! We always want to keep our older content around if it's relevant and not too outdated. Getting a pulse like this helps a lot. 🤝
Great work man , I love the idea of the light when they are open :)Â