Its been a long time since i posted

 its been a long time sines i posted. it was because of all the thing that had to be done in school  at least schools out and i am on vacation. i have just finished the steam-punk robot so here it is. not that good but at least i have finished making it

Robot Body

Have been working on the robot very hard but it turns out that Maya doesn't want to cooperate, it suddenly crashes after editing a few things and guess what... even tho Maya says that it has saved the work you have done it really doesn't so i had to do the same thing not once not twice but three times just because of the damn mysterious crashes.

Doing the face was the hard and i don't know how the body should look so... it's going to take even more time to make specially when there are surprise crashes lurking around the corner :p

the floating gears is going to be the eyes. I was to lazy to take them away.

Robot Update

just an update on how the little robot is doing. the head i s coming along just fine but the head is still not finished. I am having troubles... well not troubles but it really takes time to make it look smooth without using the smooth option... what i mean is with is hard arranging the faces one by one to make it look like that because before i could just use the smooth thingy and mess with things until it looked good but now i cant do that any more.

I think it looks good anyway.

Just Started With Steam-punk Robot

I Haven't posted for a while but here is the reason why

Firstly i just want to sat to my cousin is that i am sorry that i haven't finished it. I have barely started with the robot just because i have a lot of homework to do and... well i play a lot of League Of Legends that's also why i get delayed a lot ^_^. I have started a bit and here is the picture on what i have made so far. Again so sorry Jas.

oh also i am trying a new technique where I am not using the smooth mesh option as i see a lot of people who are modeling just create out of scratch and with an image reference but i don't have an image reference so i will just have to use my imagination :p

Simple Cube

Just a simple cube with texture and bump mapping that I made in blender during my lunchbrake in school

Bits And Bobs

Just want you guys to know that i have made some mechanical parts to work with but i still haven't decided what i want to make... maybe it will be a little steam-punk robot ^^

Work in progress

it has been a long time sines i last updated but anyway i have started on making the monster in maya and this is what i have come up with. it's not much but i will put this on hold because my cousin; Jas  asked me to make a steam-punk design of... whatever i want which would be hard ;) but i think i am going to stick to a simpler design even if i do not know what it is yet. so i will work on that before continuing on my weird monster.

Gun Model

I have finished the gun model that i was planing to do in Maya. i know it's a simple design and there is nothing special about it but i made it from scratch and only my imagination as reference. this is also the first time that i have made a gun model it kinda looks like a shotgun with a pointy at the bottom edge. ^^ hope you like.

I'm Back

Hello again. I'm back.
I made up a to do list on the upper bar thingy so you can check out what i am planing to do :)
I have already started with making a gun from scratch in Maya so i will post some pics soon

Finally

Finally tomorrow I will be going back to my Maya and unlimited Internet ^^ but even then I still have my studies that i need to do. A lot of tests are coming... so I wont be updating the blog for at least a week. see you guys in a week :)

Gasmask

still don't have Maya but i have been playing in blender and made a gas mask concept

First UV Maped Textuerd Model

I have been using blender right now as i am on vacation and i do not have Maya on my blender. Anyways  i have been tinkering on adding texture on my models. The first one (helmet) I just added a random texture and just unwrapped the model without doing anything extra on it. The other one (sword) I made my own texture, i know i know the texture is not that great but painting is not my strongest side. Also I added a bump map on the model.

unwrapping the object UV  is a pain on the ass but after that it's smooth riding.

Trying out new things

I has been a few days now and i have found allot of animated meshes on youtube so i figured maybe I could give it a try i mean how hard could it be. After looking for tutorials for a long time i found this tutorial for 'basic' walk animation. I had to 'rig' the character it means to add some bones and joints before i could animate it so i said to my self well ok lets do this... well it turned to be hard as hell i watched the tutorial over and over and over and could only do half the stuff that i was supposed to do. i gave up on animating my own object and just downloaded a simple rigged character and tried it out it turned out to be pretty easy. all you had to do is drag the leg and set it on a frame and you are good to go the only hard part is rigging the model for animation.

i think i am going to stick to just modeling for now and maybe start making textures

here was the model that i was trying to animate but it did not went well.

Maya Helm

Ok I have done a simple helm which took all day to do because Maya had some problems saveing the mesh when i loaded the scene it was blank but luckily i discovered that early on. the reason for that was i forgot to delete all the history. don't know why you have to delete the history but if it works, it works. I am really getting used to Maya now and it is actually much easier than Blender on some cases.

The mesh had some vertex issues when i smoothed it but what the hell it's just a test run ^^

First Maya Creation

yeah :D made something in Mayabut with the help of this tutorial at least i am learning. I just need to learn all the shortcuts to really get into Maya, right now i have just learnt the basic of mesh creating, at least Maya makes a little sense now. And now without further a due the object is... a delicious strawberry ice cream YAY *people cheering*^^

Sword is finnished

after many hours of blending and asking the teacher i am finally done. I had to take down the number of polygon count but that did not take so much time. i think it really looks good. I have learnd alot on how to make models, how to conect faces so that they will look good... It's realy har do write down everything that i have learnt but I think i covered most of it on the last posts. 

Danial said that the next time we are going to work in 3D is going to be on Maya so... Maya here I come. ^^

the first one is flat shaded and the second is smooth

Curve Tutorial

if you have read my previous post the near future is now ^^ ok this is a tutorial on how to curve a mesh. i have never made a tutorial before, so if my instructions are kinda hard to follow please forgive me.

to start go into the small window to the right you can go in to the object modifiers (1) which is very useful where you can add a lot of properties but I use the curve, smooth, subdivide and mirror properties.

to curve a mesh you must have at least more than 3 vertices the more  vertices the curvier the object.After that  add a curve path(2) place it in the center and above the object you are going to curve, then add a curve modifier to the object in the objectmodifier window. (1) if you have done it right you should have something like in the second pic.

Now select the object and in the square thingy (3) put in NurbsPath. then select the curvepath and go into edit mode (Tab). select an individual point on the curvepath and move to curve. you can also make a new point by extruding, to make it more curvy and when you are done do not forget to push on the apply button (4). after pushing the apply button you can now delete the curvepath.

and there you have it a curvy mesh :)

Blender Tips

I have been working on blender for a while now.. well that is not true i have been working on blender almost 24/7 ever since we have started the sword project, and i have learned a lot and picked a lot of handy tricks. So I am going to share my knowledge to you and here is all the things that i have learned plus in the near future i am going to make some tutorials for as a lot of my classmates are asking for help:

be careful when adding vertices as to many vertices can be to much to handle and even tho you can make it look the polygons will be to much when it is transferred to a game or something else, just make it as simple as possible.

when making a model start out with its basic form then start to cave in the detail, just like carving wood

also here are some useful hotkeys:


Tab - switches between the two modes that you have recently used. I usually use it when switching between edit mode and object mode.

Z - will change the mesh into a wire-frame

Ctrl Z - this would be the undo and if you hold in Ctrl + Shift Z it would redo.

X - in object mode it will delete the object. In the edit mode you will be given more options like deleteing an edge, face or vertices it is useful when you want to rearrange the edges of a face or takeing out a vertices that isn't needed.

G - will move the selected object and after pressing G you can also press X, Y or Z to move the object on it's respective axis.

C - it is a select brush, use it to select vertices faster.

S - will scale the object, again you can use the X, Y or Z to scale the respective axis.

F - you have to be in edit mode and have 3 or 4 vertices connected to each other forming a triangle or square  to make a face, you can also loop a lot of vertices and press Alt F to atomaticaly make a faces but it gives less control over the mesh.

E - this is the extrude button and only works in edit mode. This is useful when you want make more faces without having to make individual vertices which will take more time.

R - will rotate the object, face or edge. use the X, Y or Z to rotate it on it's axis.

A - will select objects or all vertices depending on which mode you are in.

Alt M - will merge selected vertices. i found this useful when removing exes vertices or using extrude on two vertices then merging them together to make a new point on the line.

K - will cut the selected edge or face making a new vertices.

Ctrl + Shift R - will cut the  face loop and if you scroll up it will make more devisions.

Ctrl T - will convert square faces to triangle faces.

Alt J - will convert triangle faces to square faces.

V - will separate the merged vertices.

N - will bring up the properties bar where you can place the coordinates on the X, Y and Z  and in object mode you can rotate your object.

Basic Blender Tutorial

I found a pretty good blender tutorial for all of those who are interested in making 3D models on Blender. It goes though all the basic things you need to know to start blending :) The video has an older version of blender but all of the shortcuts and most of the interface are the same so it is still useful to look at.

Just Couldn't Wait Till Friday

I couldn't stay away from blender I just love making 3d models. I worked on the handle and i think I'm am done but that doesn't mean that I will stop working on it. i'm going to ask my teacher; Danial if there is anything that I can improve on the sword on Friday.

here is the hilt and the whole thing. please I like to hear what you think, if there is something wrong or doesn't look good just tell me so i can make the sword better :) also here is the concept art if you want a compare them

Autodesk Maya

Got Autodesk Maya for free, you can also get it for free you just need to register and be a student ^^
So I tried it and all i can say is...

It was overwhelming! I got scared when i saw the interface i did not know what to do with all the new buttons. Blender and Maya have almost nothing in common when it comes to interface shortcuts. man! i couldn't even move the camera. At least Maya has an inbuilt video tutorial included on the program which I hope I'm going to have time to learn so i can be a pro :p

The interface of Maya looks much cooler than blender but five times more complicated I but maybe it's just me being used to used to Blender.

i had a little time to fiddle with the controls it looks like it can give you more control over the vertices than the interface of Blender, Blender on the other hand is more user friendly and much easier to get into it.

The Hilt Is Done

Finally after hours of working on the hilt i have finished it... for know, I think i'm going to make more faces and vertices to make it smooth when i have made everything. While i was working on the hilt I found out how to use the snap to grid function also just right now i found out how to separate vertices by pressing V. ^^

Going to start working on the last part; the handle, tomorrow. so i'll post it on Friday or later.

Blending

still getting used to haveing a blog so i am sorry for not updating. so here is what i did first i started of with a cube and extruded it to the same length but of course after a little while i found out that i could just push CtrlR and it would automatically devide it into equal lengths. after i have done that i then added a curve modifier. you can see how i have done it on the screens

i have to apologize for forgetting to take screen shots on how the sword developed but i promise to take more frequent screens in the near future.

it was easy to make the blade of the sword, i think i am finished on working on it. But i am having some trouble on the hilt it seems that what ever i do it always seems to be so boxy

i will try to post more frequently.

any ways this is how my sword looks like now

Concept Art

The sketch is done. it was kinda hard coming up with a new sword design but here it is

kinda blurry as i made it by hand but i hope you can see it. I have already made a sword on blender before so i chose to make a curvy one to make it a little bit hard for me. tell me what you think of it, good bad what ever :)

School Project

Ok, Hello i gues. my teacher said that we should make a blogg to document the proces of makeing meshes on blender, but i have never made, read or seen a blogg so please bare with me.

We are going to make a sword in blender but first we will have to make scetches of it. the whole thing is going to take  about 2 weeks, anyways  i'm going to start scetching now so. the scetches should be uploaded soon.