Fun Foods

Two fun looking food construction ideas I came across yesterday:
Pixel Cookies. Or biscuits in the old tongue. A playdough extruder is used to create pixels out of biscuit dough, which can be arranged into pixel art!

Edible Googly Eyes. With FSM attached! Edible Googly eyes are constructed from vitamin casings and large sprinkles.
I’ll post if I [...]

Blender Tutorial 3: More Low-Poly Modeling

Today is a continuation on from the last tutorial. This one will look at a few more tools that are used in modeling your Farmer Joe. The series index is here.
Where we left off:

Here’s where we left off, just the basic shape of the head done. Because it’s going to be a very low-poly [...]

Blender Tutorial 2: Low-Poly Modeling

This is the second part in my Blender tutorial series. The series index is here.
So, on to the fun part: 3d modeling! 3d modeling is of course a massive subject. I’m not going to try to teach it, since I’m really not an expert or even particularly skilled. I’m going to teach you the basic [...]

Blender Tutorial 1: Setup

I’ve written a tutorial previously on setting up Blender’s UI, so if I miss something here, it may be in the other one.
Panels

So you start up Blender and it looks something like this. Now if we want to change some of the settings for Blender, get it working the way we want, the first [...]

Blender Tutorial 0: Introduction

Blender is a pretty handy piece of software to have around, if only because it’s free and works on every platform so you can always have it around. And unlike Maya, it’s small and fast. Like Maya though, it’s a horror show to learn initially. After you learn the twisted logic that is behind Blender’s [...]