I remember when I was 16 or something, I wanted to learn 3d but I only had a netbook that my dad bought for school (for documents and shit). I didn't have like a big and powerful PC, as they were kinda expensive back then and besides, most games don't need those anyway lol.
My stupid ass even downloaded Blender on my netbook and as expected, it crashed. So I just forgot about my desire to learn 3d lol.
Now that I have a better PC, I can now learn it easily. I really want to see my art in different mediums. So I downloaded Blender!
Youtube University
Well of course this wouldn't be possible if I don't have any videos to watch/follow because I literally know nothing about this. Luckily, there's plenty on Youtube and I followed Blender Guru's donut tutorial.
It was surprisingly pretty easy to follow. It wasn't easy as well but following it made it less intimidating to learn and less hard to understand. Of course, I only know the basics of it and pretty sure other forms are tedious to make but that's how it is. There's no shortcut in everything. :p
Adding objects are fairly easy but I bet the planning is the one that's actually hard to think of. Like if you wanna make the icing, are you gonna make another new circle or cut it or are you just gonna duplicate? Since I was only following on Youtube, I didn't have to think about that anymore.
Then I had an initial render just to see how it looks like. Looks pretty cool and smooth! I actually like it just like that! But in order for me to learn, I had to know how to do the others as well.
So I followed the instructions and continued to add the sprinkles. Dayuumm you don't need to add individually cos the software can do that for you. Awesome! I don't know why my sprinkles are floating tho. Hahah.
After that, I had to position the camera but in this step I was really struggling. I didn't have a numpad with me (I only have a laptop) so I wasn't able to do exactly as Blender Guru did it so I had to Google on how to do it without a numpad.
Then I kinda messed up with the positioning so it took me a lot of time to figure out what was happening. But after many tries, I finally positioned it the way I want it.
My final render
And this is my final render! <3 If you continue with the tutorial, you're actually going to make plate and coffee as long as make the environment as well but I just didn't cos I already love how it looks.
Learning 3d right now is just an impulse and I still need to do my paintings. Haha! But it gave me some idea what to expect when it comes to making 3d.
I love the result tho. It's so minimalist. Haha. I bet the animations would be 100x harder!
Wow. That's cool!!
It is!! Maybe you wanna try? :D
I have played with Blender a lot in the past!
The donut tutorial is like a hello world for Blender :)
Great one!
Haha so true! You're not in 3d if you haven’t made a donut🤣 good to hear you also played with it. What kind of donut did you make?
I played a lot with nodes and materials :)
https://peakd.com/blender/@dalz/node-setup-for-detailed-procedural-generated-texture-and-material-in-cycles-blender
This is awesome! I’d love the time to learn this.
I think I need to effectively learn After Effects first, to benefit my video work, before I would jump in to 3D.
Baby steps for me!
Also your doughnut genuinely made me feel hungry 🤤
All the best with your entry in to this awesome world and skill!
Yeah! I don't know after effects yet too haha but I think they have kinda the same "principle" or something. I think that is a better choice imo. :D Good luck!
Good! Now go do it again, and put your own spin on it. You know, like make it look disgusting. Hehehe.
Oh, no numpad? No problem! The tilde key offers numpad functionality.
Haha I will definitely do that! But not soon soon cos I have to paint first. But this experience is so motivating.
I made one that looks like shit, complete with cracks and bumps. Then for the icing I gave it a shader that looks like a viscous goo made of pus with some bloody streaks. And the cracks oozed mucus too. Eeeewww. Unfortunately the file is in the hard drive that died last year. Guess I'll have to make one again, and then post it here to gross out some peeps. LOL!
Haha do it!
It's nice, you're finally getting into 3d. The blender guru has some pretty good tutorials. You should definitely do more. 👍
Thank you! Was just a try hahah but will definitely do more soon. He has a lot of tutorials and very understandable :D
Ghorl! 🤩🤩🤩
Makasuya kaayo! Nag engineering ko pero di jud ko kahibaw ingon ana. 😂 Naa mi design class before pero lahi ako pabuhaton kay di jud ko kahibaw. Wala jud ko spatial awareness. 🙈
Naa moy 3d subject? Wow sana all. Kami tanan traditional lang jud. Diba chem man ka? Ngano naabot sa design? Hahaha sorry ignorante ko sa inyong major 🤣
Chemical engineering design. Naa mi 3d design like pa layout and design ug planta. Wa jud koy ayo ana. 😂 Ako nalang tigcalculate sa diameter and stuff and economics. Haha
Ooohhh really? Makes sense. Hahah kuyawa uyyy
Learning new stuff is great, you did awesome for your first donut!