Ok after I gave in on my last project I moved on to do a favor for a friend who plays MxO. (Matrix Online)
He wanted a custom Hover Craft, with the same basic principle but with some entirely new shapes. SO! I made this.
Type: Bullet
in a matter of 3 days (about 5 working hours, not counting rendering time, which was about 20 minutes by the end on my ATI card. BTW I was using the YafRay Renderer).
Also with some help from a friend on Photo Shop and about 5 minutes of work I had this:
Well I just wanted to be visible so they got the look of it, so I used a Hemi.
Truthfully Im a technical noob, Ive been working with blender on and off for only about 2-2.5 months now. I had started maybe a year year and a half and got as far as the old Ginger bread man tutorial and never finished the animation half of it.
BTW the main objects (the nose, glass, body, and wings) were hand made, moving individual verticies into place and ctrl+F ing them together. in the end I just subsurfed with a level of 4 (using a 1 in the edit window) and moved them together. The turrets are made using an appended machine gun from my other post (which is lost amids the others here) and a new spec value (which in another image you can see makes it green in light). And the hover panels are just a circle, with some extrutions and 2 materials one metal and one blue.
I also made up a rocket I called the EMMP, or Electro Magnetic Missle Pod, basically taking the EMP from the movies and making it accurate. this was made with a subsurfed tube, with a little movement of the caps, and a few subdivisions to add the blue color thats on the panels to the tip of the rocket.
As for the texture, i went into google and found some random purple art drawing of a stainglass window and tiled it onto EVERY object.
Oh I forgot to mention, the random lines that are on the body came up when I subsurfed it, and wouldnt go away (i think its because I made it from a circle…) but in the end made a nice looking metal effect.
k well now Im sitting around waiting for help with a Poem i need to write for my english two class in school… (I prefer stories, essays and Advanced Physics from MIT over Poems) and I need some serious help…
I want to make my first character, and well I cant do human, or life like faces(life like as in anything organic)… or bodies for that matter. can anyone point me towards a tutorial on this?
Ok well Ive found an idea for another single image before i truely start animation.
Ive never copied pictures before (esp. not ones that have the character on an angle the isnt sideways and facing forward). SO Im gonna give it a try anyways.
Now it isnt mine, nor is it something a friend of mine made, but it is an image i found on my best friend GOOGLE.COM
Im going to renderthis and practice rigging using it, since it isnt complicated enough to make me shoot myself or give up again. but there are enough parts to make the rigging difficult enough to make me realize exactly how to do it right, through experience and tutorials.
For now I have made the Eye and the face plate while I was in my typing class, but currently the computer Im typing from will not allow the CD I use to install right, so Ill upload the image at home.
