The Mechanical Pencil

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Wow! your modeling skill and environment composition is very impressive :wink::+1: I have a couple of questions if you don’t mind :grimacing:

  1. What modifiers did you use to model the pencil?
  2. How did you apply such intricate textures to the pencil? WOW! :laughing:
  3. How did you make the stack of pages in the notebook?

Well done on getting featured! :grin: @heydotory

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Thank you! I love questions.

  1. The metal part: Solidify and Subsurface modifier.

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    The other part: I used only Subsurface because the pencil is a cylinder-based model, so it doesn’t need another modifiers.

  2. For example, the roughness map of the bottom metal was created like below image.
    The gradient image was hand-painted in Blender. And the scratch image was mixed with it.
    Both image was adjusted its bright and contrast with ColorRamp node.

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    You can use color instead of image textures in MixRGB node to make a gradient color.

  3. The black notebook: making a cube → loop cut once → scale the looped edges → duplicate

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    About notepad: making a plane → subdivide → using displacement modifier → duplicate or using Array modifier
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@heydotory Thank you for taking the time to answer my questions :blush: you are an absolute star for putting so much effort into your reply. As a beginner I look up to your skill and admire your work, it means a lot when people like you willingly help out an ambitious beginner like me :hugs:. Thank you :yum::+1:

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Thank you for sharing these images. Amazing work. I really like the attention to details.
Paper and surface looks superb as well.
Congratulations.

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