![blender make a donut blender make a donut](https://i.redd.it/8gmp1lh3pjey.png)
So step 1 is: more tutorials and an actual design. But natasja.exe crashed trying to make photo frame v1 with just the donut tutorial and no design to speak of. Plans for more 3D: Absolutely! That elaborate baroque photo frame will happen at some point. I did manage to make this magazine mock instead!Īm I very proud of this first unaided 3D project? Well.actually, yes!
![blender make a donut blender make a donut](https://art.ngfiles.com/images/1228000/1228960_hopkinshat_3d-donut-blender-2020.png)
The photo frame didn't get modeled yet though, because it was kind of really tough to apply this knowledge in real life. Then, it turned into "I'll just make a photo frame on a nice wall," because that saved me from modeling a ton of furniture. A long shot, but you have to start somewhere. I wanted to learn Blender so that I could learn how to make photo mocks and create my own scenes for product shots of art prints in pretty living rooms over on Etsy. I would never have been able to make this video without all that knowledge. BlenderGuru explains in detail how to consider modeling, scattering sprinkles across a surface, materials, lighting, animation, and post-processing. If you consider learning Blender as well, I can 100% recommend the donut tutorial. Look at the lens flares from the first attempt! (Yup, removed them for the final render.) Instant gratification and rendering a video do not go together. It was tough! I learned lots while following the 14-part tutorial on YouTube, and seeing the final animation (which ended up not even being that hard on the grand scale of things) is still extremely satisfying. The landscape changed considerably since then! Still, the donut tutorial took me all month to complete. Now, I had some experience with 3D in the past, but that was a very, very long time ago and I was not all that good at it. Last December, I planned on learning 3D modeling with Blender.