Monday, April 7, 2008
Vintage Sewing Machine
I made this picture in Blender and framed it for my sister's birthday on March 15th. I didn't finish it until the day after her birthday so I didn't end up giving it to her until yesterday. (She lives away.) She seemed to like it and, I hope you will too! It's been probably one of the more fun projects that I've done. I also did a lot of post-processing with Gimp so what you see here didn't come straight out of blender. :-)
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WOW! That's pretty impressive! Nice detail!
It would take me a long time to figure out how to make the spoked wheel :-)
Thank you! Yes, the spoked wheel did require some thinking. I think I ended up making one section then duplicating it.
Oh, SpinDup?
That looks great! How long did it take you to make that?
Yes, I used SpinDup I think. It didn't work perfectly so I had to clean up the mesh and remove double vertices. I think there might still be a few double vertices that I missed. :0
I started it probably in the later part of January. But I didn't work on it quite a while. Before I knew it, it was already only a week until her birthday and I hadn't even finished modeling the sewing machine. Luckily the table wasn't hard to model and texturing went faster than I thought it would.
I originally planned to make the whole foot-pedal thing, but because of lack of time I decided to go a bit more modern where they mounted a motor on the back instead of a foot pedal.
That looks SWEET!
Good job!
How long was the render time??
I don't remember... I think it was around 3 hours. I'm using an old Pentium 4 1.7 ghz with less than 1 gb of memory though. On a faster computer it normally wouldn't take that long. Render times are actually fast on my computer for being so old because I'm running Linux.
I WANT LINUX! *sniff* *sniff*
I guess I can use Eagle for making cicruit boards, but I still need Windows for all my video software :-) If it were just an NLE, I could probably find a Linux version, but VisionLab and all the utilities I use... MAN! Life isn't fair! :D
Have you tried running VisionLab with WINE?
Great to see someone else getting in to Blender and Linux, I found out about both about 2 years ago and have almost never looked back. Had to use W*indows yesterday for some but got so fed up with it I gave up!
In reply: Most things have a Linux equivalent, or sometimes a port and non-graphics-ee things often works with WINE.
Great image (good wood texture), could maybe be improved by adding some dirt or something to the sewing machine, maybe even a dent?
keep it up!
Hey! I was looking for blender stuff and stumbled apon your blog! I do blender too! ( im a newbie been using for 3 months so far )
I would be your friend but im over at www.homeshoolblogger.com/kekoa so I can't.
I know Stephen, Aka blenderboy. If you want to check out my creation's go to http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/Kekoa/
( if you go to my blog and are suprised at my background it's not because im a little kid it's just that im hawaiian. my sis made it for me )
Kekoa
Oh, ok thx for replying I just posted some new creations on the same post u just commented on. That's cool you are still doing blender! What version do you use? I have 2.48 they are coming out with a 2,49!! lol how many blender version's are there? That kind of stink's your not blogging any more.. Do u know Blenderboy?
kekoa
You say you have Blender 2.50? Where did you get it? I can't find it on blender.org it still says 2.49 is the latest version.
If you did download somewhere could you give me a Link please?
thanks, kekoa
( am I being annoying? )
hehe I umm don't have an email adress.... sadly.. my mom says I don't need one because all my friends don't have an email adress either. Do you know when 2.5 is coming out?
that vimeo is it good as in community wise? like good video content? I'm looking for a nice video site to post my blneder stuff.
youtube has some bad content on there!!! and most of the comments I have read on blender videos the people are like Aw you suck and all that kinda stuff.
Kekoa
I got to go camping soon so i will be gone till monday or sunday idk.
I got to go now be here tommarow! : D
I might get an email adress soon!
kekoa
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