Mantis!

Well after much work and listening to that silly man over and over I have managed to finally finish this mantis! It took me quite a bit longer then i though it would, but the tutorial really helped enforce many of the simple controls and mechanics of blender that i haven't used long enough in the other projects that we have had so far. I fell that after this assignment i know how to use blender at least twice as well as before. Any here he is in all of his plane background glory! (I think i'll set him up a bit nicer later on, but i would like to stop playing with this little man for while)

Banana Array!

All unwraped, covered with a banana peel and all the other fancy things!
Banana TOWER!!!

Un-wrap

Well this turned out a bit worse then i was hoping. I had not saved the sample unwrap in blender that we did in class and quite a few of the video tutorials i found online weren't helping me with the info i needed at the time, but i hot it unwrapped and i played around with the basics of the UV layer. Any how, here is my lava lamp wrapped in other materials.

Up, Up, and Array!

Here is the array that i created. Just some strange shape that i formed from a cube mesh. After getting a base shape that liked, i started in with the arrays till i found a setup with a camera angel that i liked. From there i set up lights to give me an interesting gradient.The first material i had was ice:

After i set up the lights i tried a few different materials.
Plastic:

and Meta Water:

Then I changed the lighting to be all reds and rendered imaged with each of my three materials again.

Red Ice:

Red Plastic:

Red Meta Water:
I like being able to set this thing up and them make endless changes, i enjoy the many different outcomes possible! Enjoy

Groovy-er!

Here are two new renders of my lava lamp. I have added new materials to some of my surfaces and I have also tweaked the lava a bit. I'm not sure what i'd like to do with the background, but I'm not super happy with just the plane mono-color background, but till i figure it out here are two different colors at least! Enjoy.

Groovy!

Decided to pick the lava lamp in my room because i though it posed some interesting chances to work with trying out glass and also messing around with shapes with the lava. I had a tough time working with the lighting inside the lava lamp, i think one of my main issues was the way i set up the glass, but I'm sure i'll learn other ways soon enough.

Brad-Driver

Well this is my first 3D rendered image. It's a kinda iffy looking screw driver, but it works more or less. it seems to me that learning all of the little ins and outs in Blender will help make things go a bit smoother, so it'll be inserting to see all of that in the future.

It's Alive!

On your marks....get set....GO!