Courne Supremacy

So I’ve delved into the world of modeling 3D with Blender. After seven hours of obsessive vertex tweaking this is what I finally came up with:

I gotta say, it’s easy to get into 3D modeling with Blender and it feels great knowing that it’s a full 3D modeling package. Not once did it crash on me while I was modeling either — most stable software I’ve used. There’s one issue: when you load a background image, make sure it’s small. I had a 3 mb TIFF file as a background image to reference my model building off of, and having that in there considerably slowed down Blender. I think if you want a reference background image make sure it’s below 100kb — jpeg compressed. This was made just manipulating polygons and using subdivision surfaces. It’s supposed to be a female face, but honesty can you tell? (Well, the face has a beak like Ashley Tisdale, so maybe it kinda does.) I used to draw a lot of female characters and I would love to become adept at modeling one in 3D.

The work is based off a tutorial which you can find at MontageStudio. I find them to be really great video tutorials. They’re all medium to high quality videos and the guy goes through things step by step. I learned a lot about Blender’s interface just by doing the face tutorial. Definitely a good place to start — er, if you’re a beginner to intermediate modeler.

My goal with blender: a full on 3D humanoid character. You’ll know how it goes because it’ll be posted on here.

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