This is the Blender Collaboration 2024, week 49 challenge. Don’t be afraid to join, a lot of us are beginners. This is all to practice, have fun, learn, and get together.
This week’s subject is “Sleds”.
Sleds - … December, snow, Santa. Sleds like traditional, homemade or modern ones.
The rules are simple. 1 subject, 1 entry, 1 week.
You create whatever object or scene or whatever you can think of that has something to do with the subject. It can be as simple or complicated as you want, all entries are welcome!
Post your picture here in this thread. At the end of the week, we start to vote. And if you are the winner, you may choose the next subject and win a unique badge.
Marzipan is such a great way to describe it!!! Really great looking sled. And I love the rope, how did you get the clean twist? Did you use a modifier or use paths first?
I started with this mesh shape, then used the screw modifier to get a single segment of the rope. I then used the array and curve modifiers to align it to the nurbs curve for the full effect.
The knots were created using the extra curves add-on. I just duplicated the rope segment and re-aligned the modifiers to the knots, making sure to apply their scales and put the origins in the correct places.
In keeping with my 2.5D comics/cartoon theme, here is my recreation of Calvin & Hobbes from the original cover of the “Authoritative Calvin & Hobbes” collection.
It was a difficult project. How do you scale a small picture. I traced it onto a transparent sheet of plastic. Then built my own projector … A cardboard box with a magnifying glass, a strong lamp behind the copy. But I couldn’t get it strong enough. The solution was to draw out the rough lines in the semi-darkness.
The lines are black tape (5 mm). Because you can then stick them in flowing lines and often cut them with a knife.
In some places the tape comes loose, because it has been stretched too far.
In the process you learn … have fun.
My next experiment, I want to try a combination of drawing grease pencil on a 3D object (like the tutorial @FedPete Shared) as well as using Blender’s auto outline with grease pencil to see if I can do some simple 2.5D animations. Like a camera pan with parallax scrolling.
We @BlenderCollab have a few days to vote. You can vote fast but also think slowly about design, colors, technique, difficulty, subject, realism, etc. Choose consciously and not on your entry.
The new subject week 50 “Favorite thing about December” has already started. The winner of this week’s “Sleds” challenge may select a subject for next week 51 and win a badge.
. I think that my final render is a bit dark. I am afraid it has to do with my working allnighters this week and tired eyes. 