Mech's CORE Polybook

Polybooks

Going through core, and here's my work so far from the Modeling section:

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Tried to make a latch that matched the hexagonal corners I've got, but ended up spending way way way too much time on it and settled for this. I went through probably 5 iterations before I gave up lol. Have to remind myself not to get bogged down in the details!

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  • Omar Domenech replied

    Iterations is good. Usually the first thing we do, when we see it the next day, we're like uggh what was I thinking. 

  • Blaine Jensen(Theebline) replied

    I have something like 19 different iterations on one of my projects. It's fun to play with things and sometimes you just get lost in it for hours. Wait until you sink into the compositor. Or lighting big scenes. I could spend days playing with those. Most importantly, have fun with it!

    Looks awesome though! Great job!

  • Mechanought replied

    The ball. Repeated this early course a few times just to makes sure I've got a strong grasp of the basic modeling tools. On to the next thing! 

    Played around with EEVEE for this render. Cycles brings my RX 5700 XT to its knees, even on fairly low sample sizes. 

    Ball.png

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  • Mechanought replied

    Of course I couldn't help but do another iteration of the crate.

    Crate2.png

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  • Martin Bergwerf replied

    Cool!

    You can never have enough crates 😉

    "Cycles brings my RX 5700 XT to its knees, even on fairly low sample sizes"

    Make sure that Cycles is using your GPU (two places):

    GPU.png

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  • Mechanought replied

    Yep everything's set as far as that goes. 

    The RX 5700 XT is AMD and has to use HIP and just isn't super great for rendering. Blender benchmark ranks it as about even with a GTX 3050 Laptop gpu...which is painful. Great raster card, but raytracing leaves so much to be desired.  

  • Mechanought replied

    Ended up getting lost down a strange rabbit-hole trying to get a correct looking metallic matte finish. I failed on that front, but I think I succeeded in stumbling into a really cool result! 

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  • Omar Domenech replied

    Oh wow that turned out cool. Reminded me of the look and feel of the movie Hackers. 

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  • Mechanought replied

    and now the cup for the early subdiv lessons!

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  • Martin Bergwerf replied

    Fill it up!

  • Omar Domenech replied

    Love the smooth white balanced light and the bokeh background. Super nice composition 🤘🏻

  • Mechanought replied

    Got wrecked by this one. I'd like to do a nice render and what-not, but really I need to move on and finish the rest of the course. I spent way too long on this one and started to get frustrated.