Blender

made this goobe's fur today

The face of anguish 🤣

I have a 3D printer and use blender for making or adapt models to print. While there is a bit of a learning threshold to overcome at the start, I've found blender really good to use.

I've been impressed with how powerful it is and the quality of YouTube tutorials. The vids from the 3d Printing Professor helped me to get over that initial hump with blender

I made a base human model and gave it a moving animation

I thought for a first try of someone who's never touched the software before it was actually really good

My dad, supportive as shit man in almost every situation, told me it looked like shit. Tbf it did

His cousin, who works professionally in Blender (did work on RWBY actually) said the same thing, but also blamed Blender for it and chuckled

I'm not really an artist to begin with, let alone a 3D sculptor, so I only cry a little when I use it

I made a game in Blender when it had the game engine built in. It worked great for a while. Then, when I updated to Windows 8.1 from 7, it stopped working entirely. Then, it started working again with Windows 10, but the colors were all messed up. And inexplicably, it works like new again. It's 4:3 ratio because that's what my monitor was at the time. Holy moly that was longer ago than I thought...

You shoot toxic waste at the sun by pressing space. You dodge it (you are the sun) with WASD. If the toxic waste collides, you get points. Risk-reward kinda thing. The more you press space, the more toxic waste is flying around, the more collisions, but harder to dodge.

There are three rounds that are exactly as long as the songs I chose as background music that I wrote years before I made the game. Haha!

There's an awesome secret level that I probably should have made easier to get to. Just play through the game and don't press space. Haha!

Frustrating when I accidently switch something into another mode and cant figure out what the hell I did or how to get back to the state I am familiar with.

It is amazing that it is free and open source though, it feels like a gift so I dont get too tilted when I get frustrated.

Yeah this should have been done in a proper CAD software but fuck it, i love blender. I call it the "PCB squeezer 8000" and that is all the explanation i can give.

I made karts for STK ;)

though they're horrible lol

Pretty good. I always dread making textures/materials and yet another project sits untouched for weeks. (Any tips welcome)

Has no one caught that this is square hole? This is one of the most beautiful blender models I've ever seen.

I made a donut and it took me like 13 effing hours lmao

My first experience with blender was my project being deleted because i forgot to save, my computer crashed and the folder where autosaves are in resets when you turn off the computer

🤣 Her face on the monitor says it all

Made a 3D model of a specifically bent wire. Single Bezier curve with some thickness. Never touched it since (2019).

It's hard as shit to learn, but once you learn enough you start to feel like a god capable of creating shapes at will.

That's as far as I've gotten. I did the donut tutorial, and then started playing with all the features I used during that tutorial, and now I can make shapes pretty good.

In a decade I might actually make something cool if I keep learning regularly.

I keep trying to make that doughnut. And maybe someday I will succeed - or not.

The Blender Guru doughnut tutorial is the winning starting tutorial IMHO.

EDIT: The one Ludrol linked to elsewhere in the comments.

The cables seem to have to few polygons and the monitor stand has a shape that's obviously created by subtracting two cylinder and a box from a bigger cylinder. Other than that, the wall and table texture and lighting looks realistic.
Is the reflection modeled or just a flat image? the fan looks 3D, but the face looks cut out.

I did this things like 3-5x

Modeling_a_Gingerbread_Man

In version 2.49!!! booya!

And watched a ton of youtube stuff.

Mostly fun actually, because I didn't really "need" to know anything, I just browsed around tried stuff.

There have been a few times where I'll sit down and say, "today will finally be the day I learn blender"

Then I open Fusion 360 or OnShape or TonkerCad