That’s not a downloaded model—I made it and textured it myself—same with the Galileo. Thank you for saying it looks good!
Love the Blender Guru ! His videos are entertaining, even while being Instructive. I found the Blender for Artists version, and it seems a little more understandable. I'm spoiled by Lightwave 3d. The interface is like Chutes and Ladders, while Blender is like blindfolded Chess, lol. Might be a right brain, left brain thing too, ; )That’s not a downloaded model—I made it and textured it myself—same with the Galileo. Thank you for saying it looks good!
Yeah, Blender can be a steep learning curve, especially if you’re new to 3D. I highly recommend Blender Guru’s Donut Tutorial on YouTube as the way in. It’s excellent. Also, subscribe to Blender Bros. They’re fantastic.
The downloadable models I’ve seen are pretty bad all around, at least in the Trek sphere. You’ve really got to invest the time and build your own to make it look good. Also, as you say, materials and lighting are extremely important.
Thank you, everyone, for the wonderful comments. It really means a lot!
How funny! I tried Lightwave 9 years ago, but had real trouble wrapping my head around it, even though Lightwave 1 was my first intro to 3D on the Video Toaster all those decades ago. But I’m very comfortable in Blender, and I’m even upping my shader nodes game despite finding them intimidating at first.
Yea I hear ya. Everyone comes at these things in a different mind space. I still have my Amigas and Video Toaster, lol. Don't know if they would come on, but still have them. I'm still learning Lightwave after 30 plus years. And Nodes, haven't even started learning that stuff. I see how powerful they can be, from the animation I see out there, but haven't cracked that egg yet. I mostly build objects for printing now. Don't do a lot of animation stuff. Lightwave works for this, but I'm looking to switch to Fusion 360 soon. More of a cad/cam friendly choice.
Wow. Each, I used geometry nodes to make the spinning and blinking Bussard effect. Very challenging to learn, but as you say very powerful.
Ah man, did you ever ask him to do sound effects. Bet he got tired of people asking him that, but how can you not. A Lot of famous people were into the toaster. Dana Carveys brother, Brad was a co founder of Newtek. I read somewhere that Dick van Dyke had one. And there's this gem. First animation I ever saw, done with lightwave.
I remember that! Rundgren was all over the Toaster. He was featured in the NewTek sales videos too.
Yea I remember that now. Of course Babylon Five and some of Star Trek Voyager and many more !
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Yup! In fact, I’m making assets now for my next film in Blender for use in Unreal Engine. It’s going to be a 15-minute film with Metahuman characters. Amazing stuff.
Thank you!Awesome!
