3D Modeling3D Modeling is in that list of hobbies for me that are in the category of "I engage with this once every few years, obsess over it for a month or two, and then never do anything with it again", rinse and repeat. |
It's funny to think about my relationship to 3D Modeling because it was always one of those things that I was always too intimidated to get into.
Then I randomly jumped into it back in 2016, binging a Blender tutorial on Youtube and getting really mad at myself when I realized modeling was a lot easier than I had scared myself into thinking LMAO
I got really excited and made a few OC models, only to get bored and not do any 3D for years. I learned I like the sculpting and the texturing process, but really dislike the rigging and animation aspects :') Oh well, at least there's Mixamo.
I was working during 2024, and during that time, my drive for art and drawing was at all time low, with Pixel Art being most of the art I managed to get out.
Watching videos at work, I came across some low poly stuff, and that's how I learned about a program named Blockbench, and with that, the pleasant discovery that not only it feels like the Paint Tool SAI of 3D programs, but that it had a browser version, which meant I could work on models during calmer hours at work, and the pixel art style made it easier for me to texture them, not mention a lot more fun to work on than my previous models.
My topology still needs a LOT of work, but considering the only thing I do with these models is throw them on Mixamo to make them do funny dances, I don't think it's much of an issue for now. :)
These were the last models I made before I started doing the lowpoly style!
I was under some delusions of working for Riot Games to create Aurelion Sol skins and made two models based on some skin concepts I had designed, but looking back, they've both aged rather poorly hehehe
I would like to remake them at some point just for fun
My introduction to 3D was stubborn, as in that instead of starting with something simple when I had zero experience on it, I decided that I had to start right away with a full model of my OC Malice who was my fixation at the time. it went... Well. Except that I got a bunch of blind spots for some of the basics that I happened to skip in this process LMAO