Blender Basics: The Mighty Screw...

... driver. Screwdriver. The most difficulty was had with the business end of this tool. For some reason I had a very hard time turning a round shaft into a square-shaped tapered end. Everything else was relatively simple, lots of edge loops, subdivisions, scaling and tweaking. New elements this time were colors and a little exploration into the lamp using the sun setting which delivers a wonderful crisp and high contrasting light. Less diffusion and ambiance it seems. That's perfect as I wanted two things: a high contrast of light to shadow on the tool and a nice silhouette-like shadow in the ground.  Dramatic lighting is dramatic.

 

(Much more dynamic/dramatic lighting.)

I'd say today's lesson was a success. I'm feeling pretty good and happy about this so far. Next task, lamps and tables!

Blender Basics The First Fork!

More info to come soon regarding my adventures in 3D imaging with Blender and so forth, but for now, I made a fork!