Struggled through a tutorial

[guyke]

I've made my way through Neal Hirsig's tutorial, modeling the first steam locomotive - the Rocket. It took quite a while -the tutorial is a 300-page pdf- but this is the result. I dare say that I know the basics of modeling now, or at least this way of modeling

[handrawn]

sorry - which 3D program? - great result

[guyke]

Blender - sorry Steve, should have mentioned it.

[handrawn]

sort of guessed it might be - very well done - now for the render

[angelize]

Wow! great work guy! I'm still working on simple models I can't wait to see it rendered with materials and textures.

[ODdOnLifeItself]

Hello Guy,

Very special job! It looks great!

You hadn't posted much recently and now we see why... you were woodshedding!

Does Neal's tutorial go through the means of texturizing it?

Just like building an immaculate airplane model, I know this took much patience and attention to detail to get right.

Wow

James

[guyke]

Does Neal's tutorial go through the means of texturizing it?

No, this one was modeling only. The follow-on was animation of the train which I did also.

Materials and textures are the next tutorials, which I just began to work on.

@James re: Animation. I've rendered the animation into an avi-format. The tutorial suggested quick-time, but apparently that's no longer an option. How do you go about converting the avi-format in e.g. an animated gif which can be posted in the forum ?

[pauland]

You need to add some fins and motors, otherwise it'll never get into space. Great job.

[Mike Bailey]

And some fire and smoke as well. Nice job.

[guyke]

I'm not sure it will play, but this is the animated version

edit: it doesn't ??? I have it on my pc as an animated gif, uploaded that to the forum and then inserted it online, but it turns out to be a jpg not a gif.