I’ve tinkered with Blender a few times over the years and usually haven’t used it enough in one go for a lot of things to stick. I took a couple short courses a couple years ago, but wasn’t able to complete them. I’m really glad for this course. It helped reinforce what I already knew, and has taken me further in a day than any of my previous attempts.
I’ve put the staircase and well challenges here along with the final challenge for the section
My results with the staircase:
Went a little crazy with this and hopped into edit mode for the steps and the light globes. I used the objects center point to make rotating each step a lot easier (for me anyway.) I also used edit mode to cut a sphere in half to use for the globes. I used the three point lighting from the lecture and then added area lights to the globes: One face up and one face down.
My results with the well:
When I first saw the example in the lecture video, my first thought was “How am I going to do that???” The shingles made me really nervous. The walkthrough was really well done and very clear on how to do it. I really liked that even when it gets to the part where it speeds up it is still easy to follow. When I started my version, I did as much as I could from memory while building it. Then I referred to the finished example to make some tweaks.
Section 1 Final challenge:
I went bananas with this one and probably worked on it a lot longer than I should have but I was having a lot of fun figuring out the lighting.I built the first skyscraper and then kept duplicating and moving them until I had a dense city. I originally did the moon as a cylinder but I wasn’t happy with how it caught the light so I made it a sphere instead. The sky looked pretty boring so I added the blimps. While I did change the background of the scene to a dark blue, the sunrise is actually a plane. I added a ton of lights to this (probably a lot more than necessary.) I do think there’s something a bit off about the skyscrapers and the rest of the objects. I think it’s the stark contrast of angles and curves. In my head I figured I could revisit this once I have a better idea on how to mess with focus and depth of field (I think that’s right?) I’ve always been bad with lighting but after Section 1 I’m feeling more confident and looking forward to the next section!