The whole island looks really good, but I’m really liking those palm trees too. They look realistic. 
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Day 6: Random Props and Magical Sword
Time taken: 2h
And obligatory viewport view:
Today I was tired so I thought that I will just make something simple… like a crate. But after 15 minutes in Blender I forgot the world. Overall, the scene is quite simple, but I like how the sword came out.
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In a smaller size, it would look good as a dagger as well. 
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Good idea! Probably the shape will need to be updated (I think the blade might be too wide for a dagger) and maybe some details removed and would produce nice dagger! I’ll give it a shot 
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Day 7: Dark Knight
Time taken: 3+h
He also guards the place during the day!
And a viewport view:
Obviously the Knight was main subject of this practice session:
I use rigify to rig him, so he can be animated! (My first rig 
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Plus as a bonus work I did organize some of the stuff I’ve been creating into one blend file for future re-use (I also fixed some problems with some of the trees):
PS. Wow, it’s already a week!
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And after receiving feedback from Blender’s discord (thanks to Brian Damage) I made more vibrant version:
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Here we go again. Thanks to feedback received ( 
) I fixed couple of things (eyes height, lighting, shader for volumetrics)
…and more vibrant colours for morning/evening light:
… and fixed knight:
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Day 8: BA-64 Desert Storm
Time taken: ~3h
And a viewport view of the main model:
I enjoyed “Modular Vehicles” Section of Character course. Though non of the vehicles there were really lightweight armoured vehicles. So today I modelled this one and placed it in a desert environment. Interestingly enough due to shape of the vehicle I had to use totally different workflow compared to the one that Grant showed in the course.
I modeled it based on Russian WWII armoured vehicle BA-64B. Here’s one of the reference images I used (from Wikipedia):
The model is up to scale ad misses a few little details, but overall it’s similar 
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Looking great every day.
But what happend to you rrules? 
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It’s hard to keep time in check when Blender is on 
Edit: But they are good rules, aren’t they? Just hard to follow
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I have that problem, start something to work out how to do gothic tracery, countless, several hundred hours later it is still an ongoing scene. lol.
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The other issue I have is also that I started doing full scenes and I intended to do only modelling part. The modelling is much shorter (but I still wouldn’t fit the time I set for it due to really small experience I have). Tweaking the final scene can take infinite amount of time… So I stop when my body says to me “stop, you’ve been sitting in one position long enough”
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This and the kitchen ones are my favorites so far. Great work!
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Thank you so much!
Day 9: Some more weapons
Time: 1.5h
And viewport:
I planned to do more today, but it took quite a long time to get the geometry right…
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Very nicely done. That middle weapon looks like it has a couple of nicks, possibly from overuse.
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Thank you!
I try to add some “character” to things (if I remember about it). So the two gladiuses (Roman swords) are exactly the same, except one has some notches. Didn’t look good on spear though and I didn’t find nice reference images for “notched” spears (but TBH I didn’t search for a long time).
Day 10: Even more weapons
Time: 4h
And a viewport view:
I think I’m getting better at weapon modeling. Topology is good, so I can easily make them high poly without any issues:
With some good textures they they might look quite nice even in some high poly scene
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Day 11: Blacksmith (WIP)
Time: 3-4h
Viewport view:
Not sure if it still qualifies as “low poly” (lot’s of individual bricks and planks), but those details could baked later to textures
It’s still misses a few things like an anvil ;-). Will be continuing this scene tomorrow.
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