{"id":792,"date":"2010-12-29T20:20:21","date_gmt":"2010-12-30T00:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=792"},"modified":"2010-12-29T20:20:21","modified_gmt":"2010-12-30T00:20:21","slug":"blender-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=792","title":{"rendered":"Blender studies&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week I&#8217;ve been working on my 2011 Goal #2: <em>Learn to model an environment in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blender.org\/\">Blender<\/a><\/em>.  I&#8217;ve been learning from the secret book of Blender modeling ninjas, which I stole from the master ninja&#8217;s house in the shadows of the night.  OK, actually I&#8217;ve been studying from this book: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0240814304?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=wizardwalk-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0240814304\">Blender Foundations: The Essential Guide to Learning Blender 2.6<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=wizardwalk-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0240814304\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> by D. Roland Hess.  It&#8217;s an excellent book for someone who&#8217;s never used Blender before.  I&#8217;m only on chapter 4, but just flipping through the pages ahead, it looks like it will cover all the basics I&#8217;ll need to achieve my goal.  So far, I&#8217;ve only modeled a purdy little flower and a purdy little vase.  If I have time after work tonight, I&#8217;ll continue on and model a chair and a table and post some pics.  Nothing amazing at all, but I&#8217;m a newbie.  I must say, there&#8217;s something very attractive about modeling.  If you know what I mean, nudge nudge.  No, I mean 3D modeling, the act of creating stuff from nothing.  It makes one feel quite powerful.  It&#8217;s the chance to build cathedrals, entire cities, things that never existed.  Things that couldn&#8217;t exist in the real world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I&#8217;ve been working on my 2011 Goal #2: Learn to model an environment in Blender. I&#8217;ve been learning from the secret book of Blender modeling ninjas, which I stole from the master ninja&#8217;s house in the shadows of the night. OK, actually I&#8217;ve been studying from this book: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[68],"tags":[336,337,338],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7gI4B-cM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}