Newcomer looking for a Jedi master

[lancedragon 12]

Hello Ladies and gentlemen,like the title told you i m a newcomer in the game and i kinda  get addicted to it:).But more than the game ,i've been stunned by the quality of some of the mods and custom building made by the community.

So one thing to another i started reading guide on how such assets were made,my curiosity kept growing until last night when i downloaded Blender and tried to create my first 3D object took me 4 hours to learn about a few basics commands and finally i managed to build a ladder

Far from being discouraged, but well i guess you know the feeling , i was kinda overwhelmed by the astronomic content my brain had to absorb just to get a very simple object out of this program and learn a fewkeybind.

So here is my question/offer,does any of you has time to spare to teach a complete  newbie like me the basics of assets creation and give me simple exercices focused on assets creation for CS (blender can do much more ,but well my goal isnt to get a job at pixar), in return i'm more than willing to help you back with grunt work for yours projects .

Basiccaly i'm looking for a  master >apprentice relationship were both parties have something to gain from it,so let me know if you re interested .In the mean time i m going to keep practicing by myself ,and try to improve my skills, but well i definitivly have the feelings that i'd save a lot of time and  efforts doing it that way.

I hope i do not sound too cocky, landing here and asking for a special treatment . I'm perfectly aware some or most of you learned by themselves and may not see that approach in a favorable way,but hey you do not know unless you try.

That's pretty much it, so let me know if spending a few hours teaching a newbie is something you re interested in .

Cheers have fun, and see you soon .

 

 

 

[Darf 1,439]

Hey, welcome! I personally don't use blender, as I know that feeling all to well when you get to boot it up. Sketchup is a much easier tool to model and 3ds/photoshop to texture, but in the end Blender is much more powerfull and has a easier workflow if you master it. All I can say, creating stuff is a lot of work, so start with something simple and smaller and tell us what difficulties you face. Go with a real life example and study it's dimensions and details in google maps.

[Simulanten 681]

Being a newbie myself and struggling with my second project I would suggest to start with a (simple) project / thread and display your progress.

With my first asset (Pine Motel) I got some very good and useful hints and tricks quickly - and that was much more efficient than watching days of tutorials...

[Avanya 2,605]

Welcome! The suggestions here are great - start small and post your progress here. For me messing around with blender and trying different things helped me get comfortable with the program. I also use this wikibook as I prefer reading over watching tutorials. It has some "lessons" and you can start from one end or pop around as need be. If you don't mind reading ofc.  Boformer also found this video, which I found very useful, though it might be a bit much to start with - depending on how comfortable you are with blender atm. I am still learning tricks in blender after about 6 months since I started - mostly fancy functions that make my work easier.  Perhaps something like rocks to be a place to start? I know we have a nice tutorial here on how to make a normal map easily (will introduce you to the baking feature) and it's something where you can really play around with the shape.

[Cool_Z 1,547]

Blender !!!

 

You chose the right weapon !!

I would like to help as much as I can, (but I can't assume the role of a teacher). Still I suggest that you ask any question you have here, I'm pretty sure a lot of builders will gladly answer and help you along.

Also try to learn in stages... do not try to do too complex stuff for a start.

 

 

[lancedragon 12]

o/

Thank you guys for the welcome and the warm comments

@Darf (honnestly for blender i just went with the flow, just read so many good comments about it on the workshop)And yeah that's exactly what i was planning, already come across a a small concrete villa  in my neighborhood and was planning to go on maps or go there take a few pics .Definitely caught my eyes when i was looking for my 1st model.That would nicely fit for a 1x1 R slot .

@Simulanten what you are displaying as 1 st model look really awesome man  ,honestly i can't right now picture myself getting that kind of result .But thank you for the advice i ll do that as it 's seems like a good way to do steady progress and for keeping a high motivation so yeah on my to diy list.

@Avanya @Cool_Z

I'm really honored from both your post (didn't really expect than both of the most prolific creators respond to my post that did really make my day)

Avanya: Thank you for the 2 links they have been already bookmarked .i really just get started by imitation that s pretty much one step,one fail,one restart blender at a time ^^.

So yeah rocks seems the only things i could do know ...(not even sure about that ) But hey decision have been taken ,so that as a short term project that seems something reachable at least for 3D model.I'm gonna cling to it, at least i want to try

Cool_Z Thank you for your help offer ,as you have been one of those who inspired me  in my decision to try myself to 3D modeling /bow.

Right now i'm really just get started, so for both Avanya and you ,i don't really want to disturb you in your work .

But as adviced by Simulanten i'm gonna start a thread ASAP.And both of you are more welcome to comment my attempts .

See you around guys.

 

 

[Koesj 659]

Good luck! I'm spending what little time I have in Max, so specific Blender advice is beyond my means, but general geometry and UV-mapping stuff is alway cool to talk about with others 

[Drosovila 86]

Good luck!

I know how confusing and illogical blender can be sometimes but by now I've pretty much seen it all So if you have any questions, just hit me up!