Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas Blogdom! May your Holidays be full of love and joy.
-Nether Kraken

RPG's Are Fun

Recently I convinced a good buddy of mine to start playing a PBem rpg with me.  He's a regular to table top gaming and his group typically sticks to dungeons and dragons 3.5 (as far as I know). I've been having a lot of fun sending emails back and forth co-creating a fun story with a close friend (which is the essence of rpg gaming). It's quite entertaining writing campy dialogue in a fantasy setting, crafting a unique and engaging (at least engaging to us) story.

My Kind of Sharpie

Another weapon I modeled (but obviously haven't textured yet). For this sword I used a workflow demonstrated in a tutorial by blenderalphahelix. In particular, I really like the use of 'bevel' vs trying to use a subsurf modifier to control the hilt edges. Also I used 'bridge' to join the pommel to the grip (picked that trick up in this cool video on cutting holes).
Now I just need to learn to texture paint like this

Knifey Spooney!

Behold! A simple creation: a knife model. I just finished chapt. 3 of Game Development with blender last night. I decided to take a quick break from learning the BGE and wanted to try modelling something simple. Walla! I made two slightly different variations. The textures and model could use some tweaking, but that's the point (nice pun!). This is all learning.

Pink Fish, Blue Fish, Monkey Stew Fish

Just a quick render I made of my monkeyshark (created for the Feed the Shark game exercise from Game Development with blender)

I Heart Blender Books

I had some amazon cash stuffed away that was just begging to be used, so I decided to grab a digital copy of Game Development with blender.

At this point I'm only in the beginning chapters of the book, going through the standard blender basics section.

I figure if these guys are personal pals of Martins Upitis then hopefully it'll prove to be a good purchase.

I'll toss a review up here, and hopefully on Amazon too once I get through the book in its entirety (which may require a miracle since I'm easily deterred from my hobbies by... my other hobbies).

Mental Encumberance

Martins Upitis has convinced me I need to do two things. Learn the Blender Game Engine and learn shaders. His stuff is just mesmerizing to look at. I hope he updates his blog sooner rather than later. I need more!