Blender Nala project - Development

[DGFone]

Lionboy 1 asked me to do it, and I accepted!
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I created this topic to post screenshots of my progress. I want to do this to show people what it's like, and to show myself how far I have come later on.

EDIT: I use a program called Blender 3D. What I am doing now barely scratches the surface of what the program can do (assuming you have the hardware). It's open-source (free). Here is the main website: http://www.blender.org/

As of today (May 14, 2011), I have completed day 1, and successfully taken my first step! After today, I have what can make for a nice Nala mask, but that's as far as it goes.

This is attempt 3 realistically, actual is maybe attempt number five. The biggest problem I have is there are no good Nala 3-view sheets of her in one pose, so I have to use one main picture (in this case a cropped screenshot) as a main reference, and others as guides at most. Here are 2 screenshots of day 1:

Nice Mask. Mardi Gras anyone?

[Annie]

Holy -
That's looking amazing!! I wish I could do 3D stuff! I took a college course for 3D animation, but I found it faaar too hard!

Anyways, here's a turnaround sheet for Nala's head, if it'll help ^^ http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-YOK6-hJ5kY/T ... Nala04.jpg

[DGFone]

Nice! I might be able to use that, thanks a lot!

[Jiirani]

Oh wow, good luck with this, it looks awesome so far

[Panda-chan]

This is amazing! You're very talented.

[Daenerys]

Can you give me the link to the Blender website?

[DGFone]

Here it is: http://www.blender.org/

[Daenerys]

Thank you! And VERY nice work so far. I can't wait to see the final result!

[DGFone]

Well, here are the results of day 2! Because this was started on a weekend, do not expect such fast paced work for another four days at least (my last class is on Thursdays). I might be able to do a bit here and there during the week, but most likely not enough to warrant screenshots and a post update.

For today, I was hoping to add the neck, but the ears gave me more trouble than I thought they would. In fact, I might even have to change them. They look quite fat.

Annie: Thanks for the turnaround sheet! It was great help in starting the ears. It's much harder to create things in 3D with only 2 viewpoints, but the different angles helped a lot!

[TheLionQueen]

What program on your computer do you use to do this? My program isn't as how do you say AWESOME as that.