Blender - Enterprise

Well, it turns out making the Enterprise wasn't all that hard, as long as I didn't try to make a model exact to the ship itself. So here it is:

Overview

Side View

Top View

Back View

Front

Overview

I guess it isn't that bad for my second Blender model. I think I'll try adding textures and maybe some animating next.

Blender - Spaceship

Here are more detailed screenshots on the spaceship I made for my camp.

Here are two overviews of the model itself.

Top View

Side View

Front View

Plus, recently, my brother told me to go ahead and to try to make the Enterprise, from Star Trek, for my camp instead, I thought it was going to be near impossible, but it's still under the wraps. Here's an in progress image.

It's going fairly well in fact, and I made all of that in just a bit over and hour and a half. I'll keep you all posted!

An Introduction to: Blender

For those who have not heard of it or know what it is, Blender is a 3D graphics program, where you can create 3D models and add textures and animations. With Blender, you can even make games and movies. It uses Python for its scripting language, which is apparently very useful, but I haven't gotten around to learning it yet. The thing that struck me about Blender is that, compared with Maya 2010 and zBrush. The same options are still there, with the ability to subdivide meshes and smoothing options. I was introduced to this a long time ago, when I was researching different types of 3D modelling programs.

However, when I downloaded it as freeware (it used to be a professional program with a fee, but the developers had a couple financial ups and downs, mainly downs though, and they got bankrupt) it seemed daunting to use and learn, which is actually one of its major drawbacks. However, I had the good fortune to be able to learn its basics at my summer camp, and our first experiments were with making spaceships, which we're supposed to use later on in a small game.

Here are a few screenshots of my finished spaceship (forgive me if some of you find more semblance between it and a fish than a spaceship, but I think it looks just fine).

Here, a rough render of my earlier model.

And here is my finished model, which I smoothed out a bit more.