I fought entirely too hard to get to this point.

But.

Here I am. Almost finished with this section of the course. Next? LOW POLYGON T-REX!

Here’s another view of the dungeon room:

I’m probably the only one who finds all of this exciting. Can’t help myself. It’s like building your own Legos. I can’t wait to start making things with them.

As a interesting note, I made three of these modular walls and forgot to leave a fourth non-connected-to-pillar wall as a spare. Easy fix, but dumb mistake.

Next I’m building an arch door way. I was about to write “How cool is that?”, but it really isn’t that cool.

Probably.

I might add a few more notches over on the right side. But not bad for a first timer.

Quick confession: this took longer than it should. For whatever reason, the bricks had to be the same size. Had to be. Exactly 80 centimeters.

Blender centimeters, mind. there’s a grid for it and everything.

So with the top row I made damn sure all five bricks were the right size.

With the bottom row… I forced myself to eyeball it.

And you know what? While I wasn’t 100%, I was damn close.

Pleased me to no end.

Then I made sure they were all 100%.

Because I had to.

Had to.

The whole thing didn’t take too long and, again, very happy with the outcome.

As a bonus, a little look behind the scenes with the wall.

It might not be too clear, but the whole thing is flat. It’s like the fake looking sets in all the B-movies.

God I love that.

Let’s make this as the moment where Cullen said to himself, “Why am I trying to use just one light source when I can copy a bunch and light each object individually?”

Now that that lecture’s done, the next covers making walls for the low polygon dungeon.

This marks the end of videos I’ve watched as this was the real lecture I gave up on and not the last one. While I had to fight my way through, I made it through and am going to the next one.

As a note, the pillar on the right had a modification done on it. It used to stick out a bunch more than it does now. I had to fight a little to get this to where it is now, but the notes helped here.

I now move to Materials, which is an aspect that’s been covered before. This time I get more depth.

And now pillars with little bits carved out of them. A whole lot of headache for something so simple.

Now if you’ll give me one second…

Yeah, I think those aren’t the same pillars as I showed you before. Might have gotten disgusted with Blender and redid them all.

From scratch.

Without using the notes or the videoes.

Which… yay? I guess?

Anyway, I also worked on my novels too today. Retread ground, but some progress made.

This is a more definite yay.

Also, it should be noted I watched Howling 2: Your Sister is a Werewolf for the first time in… God. Twenty years? Twenty five years? I liked it a whole lot better this time, to the point I might actually buy it. And I don’t even have the first one.

I will say there isn’t a scene in it where Christopher Lee doesn’t look vaguely ticked off…

And now I’m fighting Blender again. Might have figured it out, but still. Frustrating.

We now sit one lesson between me and where I stopped last time.

This time through I have notes. If I’m confused on what I should do, I can go to them and find out where I should be, and maybe even what I did wrong.

If school had been this entertaining, I might be something today.

Anyways, this was my second attempt at a crate. I screwed up the first and by the time I figure out what I did wrong I’d already deleted what I had and started afresh.

No biggie.

I noticed my Blender wasn’t working the same way the instructor’s was. Not in a bad way, but in a way that made me wonder if I wasn’t using a newer version of the program.

Might be interesting continuing on.

We begin anew with a low polygon dungeon. This is a barrel for that dungeon.

This part is where I fell off of the lessons. I hope, though, that I have no more problems, as the next thing I’m make is a low polygon dinosaur.

I need to make a low polygon dinosaur.

Need.

Above is my first time making a lighthouse island. I was pretty pleased with it. It wasn’t great, but it was a first try. First tries are never great.

Below is the finished second pass.

I screwed up with it here and there. Somehow I managed to link the island with the ocean, and God knows what else. The lighthouse should be glowing; why isn’t it? I don’t know.

Still, it’s pretty good, I think. Better than the first one. It helps that I got excited and started doing extra stuff to make the whole thing look better. Well, better to me.

Anywho. We move on to the next part of the course: low polygon dungeon.

Below are a few more shots of the island, for the interested.