Learning Blender Better —03/28/2024
“Learn the rules like a pro so you can break them like an artist”
~ Pablo Picasso:
If you follow my blog, you know I have been messing around with Blender. I have done a couple of installations and showed my work in Second Life. Second Life Endowment for the Arts allowed me to get my feet wet designing for a gaming environment.
Second Life started with an idea that individuals (the Second Life community) should be able to create and build. The Lindens, the Second Life (SL) overseers (lol-scary, huh?), developed a tool to allow the community to create, and we did—incredible worlds. The Lindens also created a system where members or visitors could use ”prims“ to build, texture, set physics, etc.
So, if you own a property, you are allowed an exact number of prims to use. You can create prims and build with them or buy objects built with them to use on your property. The wiser you use the prims, the more you can make or create. Whether or not you have land, you can produce prims. Where you place them, you need permission from land owners, or you rent/buy a piece of property.
When you use mesh objects, your prim count can be extended; for the same object, you might build in prims… an object built with mesh objects uses fewer prims. So … 3D designers often look for other pieces of software so they can design and import mesh objects into an SL or another gaming engine. SL
Blender is an open-source software (free) instead of 3D software that can cost large amounts of money. (3D Modeling Software (and how much it costs)
As an artist who has created two installations and other works, I want to combine my ideas and tactile techniques with my digital skills. So I decided to make something in Blender that required me to use most of the tools I used in the past and new ones that I fumbled with before to create a simple house. Why? It required me to be more exact and build with precision.
This is not a tutorial but a visual path I documented as I worked. Part Two is yet to come, but posting this allows me to step forward.
