At last it is done. š The moth needed many more adjustments to its armature but it was worth it. The mist settings helped add some depth and atmosphere, and 2 spots and a hemi light gave it form. This is actually my first planned scene executed in Blender, not counting all the playing around […]
When we last saw our hero he was wrestling with a whole battalion of rebellious triangular polygons. The ‘tris’ seemed to be sabotaging the great UV texturing experiment, or was that just a red herring? Our hero was soon to find out. Now, on with the story … ahem … I have spent the last […]
This is just a sneak peak of my progress with the texturing of this model, hence the medium sized image and no bigger version. I’m having problems with distortions of the texture on the wings because of taking the easy way out with that part of the model. I am quite sure extruding the curve […]
Began my quest for easy UV texturing in one easy step – unfortunately, there is no such thing. But once again, Python comes to the rescue. I used the obj_io script to export the main objects to .OBJ files from Blender. These files were then opened in UVmapper Classic, a free program that unwraps meshes […]
Finally I tackled the wings. As far as modelling was concerned, they were much simpler to achieve than the body, but they needed an armature setup to make them poseable. Hence, they came last. Using the references I had collected, I came up with a flat shape for the wings. It would have been easier […]
My work on the moth continues. After completing the limbs, my next challenge was the antennae. This would have been a simple matter if all I wanted were single curved tendril-like antenna. But I had my sights set on something more complex. Some of the photos of moths I used as reference, showed some filamentous […]
While I was experimenting with the Fiber script, I came across the latest Weekend Challenge (#77) over at Elysiun. I am definitely not quick enough with Blender to try my hand at one of those yet, but #77 had an insect theme to it, and that lead me to think of modelling and insect to […]