Blender Basic Bootcamp

During this week we got through the basic blender tools, doing focused exercises. The last step was that to create with all the acquired knowledge a personal and free final project.

The first one was that to create a free composition scene made of simple shapes and in and out extrusions tricks.

3D items sculpting

The other days we focused on other blender instruments creating shapes with different texture and outlook shape modifiers, arriving at some items for example: a juicer, a basketball, a futuristic spaceship.

Lollyplant

We also arrived at designing lamps. Mine (which I intended to call “LollyPlant”) it’s the result of combining both a lollypop and a plant in a pot, exploring also the use of nodes, lights and glassy, reflective material with cycles.

3D text in real space

I found interesting also working with text, and implementing the 3D version of it into a tridimensional space: the one of a real life picture thanks to the use of fSpy guidelines. I produced the metallic, and a little opalescent lettering “Ponte” (the Italian term for Bridge), placed on a bridge.

Final personal project: PopBloom

Last but not least, I have my final and personal project: PopBloom. A 3D animation of a character I personally designed: a cartoonish, goofy and colorful flower on a pink background with clouds. I really wanted to suggest a kind of a pop, surrealistic and dreamy atmosphere. The camera goes around the flower, which at the end of the animation starts rotating and lighting up its petals.