Link to Shirt and other product sales!

Here's a place to buy products with my bizarre art on them!
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Got a subscription to Lynda.com today, so that should really help my 3d design learning! I can also use it for other stuff too! Didn't get to utilize it today, sadly.

Gladius Render

I decided to keep on rendering swords! It's a nice, fun practice for modelling! I learned how to use the extrude tool today, as well as how to fill gaps in an object.

Today I tried to make a model from scratch, no reference or anything. It looks... weird. I'll try using a reference next time!

Today I learned how to use Maya's Quick Rig tool to make a rig, using a tutorial model. I also learned, both through that tutorial and consequentially, how to use the Pivot Mode, create Parent Groups, change brush sizes, and how to edit the individual parts of a rig. Tomorrow I'm either going to make my own model, or I will learn how to make a rig from scratch.

Broadsword Render

Here is a render I did today of a broadsword! I got more practice making better-looking objects. I also figured out how to apply a texture to a specific object, which meant I could give the hilt a leather texture.

Spear Render

Felt like doing some more work, so I also worked on a render of a spear! I like the way this one turned out!

Rendered Uruk-Hai Sword

I figured, what better way to learn Maya 2018 than to try making swords? I started out with a really simple one, an Uruk-hai sword from the Lord of the Rings movies. I hope to get more detailed with the modelling once I get a good grasp of how it all works, but for now I'm proud of this!

3D Ball-bouncing Test

Update: the render worked! Sadly, I still can't use the much shinier and nicer looking Arnold render and export it to .avi, but I did manage to use the Maya Software render! Enjoy!

Daily Blog, Number 1, 8/23/2017
I've been reading Show Your Work! by Austin Kleon. Lots of good advice. Some of it was putting out a little bit of your process every day, record stuff, show works in progress if you're comfortable with it. I like that idea, so I'm gonna do just that!
Yesterday and today I've been learning Autodesk Maya 2018. It's a really versatile program, and I can't wait to learn how to use it to the right extent! I've made a small animation with it, nothing complicated, a looping bouncing purple ball animation. I've spent a lot of today trying to figure out how to export it to video (for some reason, the new and shiny Arnold program that comes with Maya 2018 doesn't have .avi or .mp4 options, and when I try to export .avi with Maya Software, it only export one frame). Bit of a roadblock, so for now I'm sticking to animating the frames with Adobe AfterEffects. Sadly, there are 200 frames. Gotta remember to cut down on the frames, as that's definitely too much. Once it's rendered in AfterEffects, I'll have to slow it down.
I have an idea to try putting all the frames together with Adobe Premiere. I'm not as experienced with it, I've only used it to put video clips together. Maybe it will work.