Martin Helmut Fieber

I started learning 3D

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Going through tutorials

So, one day I thought why not learn some 3D art, and Blender was the OpenSource program of my choice. To get myself started I decided to work through a bunch of tutorials, of course, the first one being the famous donut tutorial. Here is my attempt after I went through all there was available in the playlist:

A 3D donut and coffee glass I made in Blender.
My result from the donut tutorial.

Next I tried myself on a chair tutorial and photo realism. The result as seen below really hooked me for the whole 3D thing.

A wood chair I made in Blender.
The Søborg chair I created based on the tutorial.

Overestimating myself

After doing those tutorials, I of course thought immediately that "I can tackle a bigger project". Why not an Alien inspired spaceship interior. I love the Cassette Futurism seen in the movie, the aesthetics, and the grounded feel of it all. So I opened a new Blender file and ...

Nope. Not happening. Nothing I can tackle, yet.

Being realistic

So, after reconsidering my skills, lowering them, a lot, I came up with some new ideas I can work on. Learning light, creating small studies with abstract forms and some pleasing colors. Baby steps so to speak (even though I still want to create the spaceship one day). So, here are some of those studies I made, with the best of my knowledge:

Shapes and forms I made to learn about light in Blender.
Some light tests I did to learn Blender. For some of those I used the amazing plugin Random Flow by Blender Guppy.

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