This took no time at all.

Let’s look at those hands a moment. My instructor went with floppy box shapes, and to me, that’s no good at all. If it doesn’t have two clawed fingers, it ain’t a T-Rex.

So after a bit of fumbling I made two fingers.

I’ve mentioned it before, but I’ve always found it promising that not only do I get a flash of inspiration, but I also am able to follow through. I think it shows I’m learning, which I was afraid was something I could no longer do.

I’ve got six more lectures in this part of the course before moving on to something called UV mapping. This will start me into animation. Which will be a wee bit more difficult to show here.

I was wrong about which claws were going in. We were still on the lower set. Next time, though, we work on the head.

Again, I fought like hell to get it looking this good, while the instructor made it all look easy. None of what we did here was new. I dunno.

The thing to take away is that I finally got it right, or close enough that I can walk away for a bit.

It’s kinda frustrating on how long this is taking. I know the material, I just mess it all up.

I’m learning, though. Hopefully.

Next comes the hands.

Not sure how obvious it is, but this is not the same image as last time. It is, in fact, my third time through.

Not that this particular lesson was difficult. It’s the next one that’s kicking my butt.

Anyways. MORE T-REX!

Two more videos to go!

I want to take a second to point out the stairs. This was an addition I came up with driving around town. I figured out how it could be done, worked on it for a little bit, and threw it into the setup.

I think adding spur-of-the-moment things is a good thing. I did it with the fire island piece and if I can think of something for the next project, I will.

One of my goals with this is to have fun. So far it’s been worth the headaches of trying to figure out how I, say, lost the base of my torch, but not the flame itself.

That one still doesn’t make any sense to me…

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.