It's the end of february. I won 3 sweepstakes

It's the end of February already. I won 3 sweepstakes this month. My first win was the book LANA: the memories, the myths, the movies. My second win was a dvd called Yomega Mania, and my third win was a coupon for a bag of combos snacks. I won some great prizes in February, Yay for me!! I hope I get a few wins in march.

Today I made a mirror

Today I made a mirror by following a tutorial I got from CGTutorials. One problem I had today was that I made the ground reflective like the vertical plane. I must have selected both of the planes when I only wanted to select the vertical plane.

Another problem I had today was that I did not save my work. I ended up erasing my scene when I selected open instead of append from the file menu. I did not realize my mistake until I had opened a new scene in the 3d view. I though oh no I did not save my work. So I had to do my model over again, but that is OK because it came out better the second time.

Here is an Octopus I made with blender

Today I followed an octopus tutorial I found at CGTutorials. The octopus was easier to make than I thought it would be. I can't think of anything else to write so I'm done.

Today I made a scene with a snowman

Today I made a scene with a snowman. I followed a winter scene tutorial I found at CGTutorials.I first saw the winter scene tutorial I did today a few years ago on blender.org, but I did not click on the tutorial link because I thought it would be to hard. Well I was wrong the winter scene tutorial was very easy. I love it!!

Today I modeled a medical syringe

Today I followed a tutorial on how to make a medical syringe with blender. I found the tutorial at CGTutorial.

I never thought of creating a 3d model of a syringe before I saw the medical syringe tutorial. It surprised me that anyone would ever make a 3d model of a syringe.

One thing that frustrated me is that the cylinder is supposed to be glass, but on my model it looks silver, I think the cylinder looks good thought.

World dominating monster

Today I experimented with meta balls. I read a meta ball tutorial I got from CGTutorials and then started creating my own model.

I am not sure what the model is supposed to be, so I'll say its a picture of a big green monster standing on top of the world. Yes that's it an evil monster with world domination on his mind.

I made a sign today

I made a sign today using blender. To make the sign I followed a paper tutorial I got from CGTutorials and then I added some text and scaled it so it fit on the paper, after that I made a post for the sign by scaling a cube and then extruding it until the post was the length I wanted.

After the sign was complete I selected the text, the paper, then the post, and then pressed control p to make parent so I could move my sign around easier by just grabbing the post.

Today I made a Table with blender

Today I made a table using blender and following a table tutorial I got from CGTutorials. I also appended the cup I made yesterday into my scene. The table was not that hard to model and it looks great, I love it.

About a week ago I leaned about Jabaco

About a week ago I leaned about Jabaco from about.com visual basic. I got excited after I read the article because its supposed to be similar to visual basic 6. I thought great now I can do some of the vb6 projects in a book I have called beginner's guide to programming, second edition.

So I went to the jabaco website and downloaded jabaco witch did not take long because its a small download and then after jabaco finished downloading I installed it on my computer and opened jabaco to see what it looked like and to make sure it worked. And hooray it worked.

Jabaco reminded me of Sams teach yourself visual basic 6 in 24 hours. I went to informit.com and found the book and have been reading it since I got jabaco. After reading sams teach yourself visual basic 6 in 24 hours for a couple of days I made my first jabaco program. So today I wanted to take a screen shot of a program I wrote and put it on my blog. Enjoy!!

Oh, great I just noticed I spelled welcome wrong in the program. Oops.

Today I made a cup again

Today I made another cup following this cup tutorial. Here is the first cup I made on February 9. The handle still did not out right, someday I'll get it right though. The first time I did the cup tutorial I was in a hurry to make something so I could post it on my blog, but today I had more time so the cup came out better. The cup looks so good I think I could drink out of it.

I got my the Yomega Mania DVD I won

I got the Yomega Mania DVD I won February 9. I can't wait to watch the video because I have wanted to learn yo yo tricks for a long time.

When I was younger I saw people using a yo yo and wanted to be able to use a yo yo myself, but I was never able to make a yo yo go up and down in a straight line like I saw other people doing, the yo yo would go down, but I could not get it to come back up to my hand until I got a yo yo a few years ago. I can make the yo yo got up and down in a straight line easily now, but that gets boring after awhile.

I do have a small booklet that came with a yo yo I got that shows how to do yo yo tricks, but I tried one of the tricks in the booklet and could not get it to work so I gave up trying to learn yo yo tricks. If I would have kept trying to learn a trick maybe I would be able to perform a trick now, I don't know. But what I do know is I hope I can learn a trick or two from yomega mania.

Look I made a glass

Look I made a glass today following this tutorial I got from CGTutorials. I tried to make the glass a few days ago so I could post it to my blog, but I ran into a problem. The area between the belt and the bottom of the glass would not come out like it was suppose to after I subsurfed the glass.There would be a crease between the bottom and the belt and it made me frustrated that I could not make a simple glass.

Today the glass came out OK so I am glad. I did it I can make a glass, yay for me. The glass material even look like glass.

Say hello to Mr. Smiley

Here is the smiley face I made today using 3 beizer circles and a bezier curve. I made it today because I read a tutorial in blender 3d noob to pro on bezier curves.

A House made using blender

Today I made a house with blender. If you guessed that I followed a blender 3d noob to pro tutorial to make the house you guessed right.

The house is not hard to make, but it took me three hours because I was fooling around. The hours go by fast when I am using blender because I love making 3d models.

My favorite part of the this project was making the picket fence. Making the fence is not hard and it looks great.

The big scary head thing - blender model

Oh no it's the head, the big scary heat thing and it's out to get me, I need to hide. I have done the head tutorial on blender 3d noob to pro before and I think I messed up the nose, well not today. I got the nose right!!.

The head was easy to make which surprised me because I thought it would be hard because I remember having trouble making the head the previous times I have made it. I have to hide from the big scary head now, so that's all for today.

A parachute 3d model

Today I made a parachute following a blender 3d noob to pro tutorial. I thought making a parachute would be hard, but today when I went to do the tutorial I was surprised to see creating the parachute was easy.

I wanted to put a clothed human model with the parachute, but I am lazy today so I'll do it some other time. That's all for today.

My jeep model

Today I finished my jeep model with the help of a blender 3d noob to pro tutorial. I was thinking to myself I should write here is my completed jeep, but then I thought that would not be right because I have not added a steering wheel, tail or headlights, front grill, the model also has no engine or gear shift. So I'll write the jeep model is as complete as I want to make it right now. Vroom vroom I am off in my jeep. That's all for today.

Today I made a jeep body

Today I made a jeep body following a blender 3d noob to pro tutorial. The jeep body was not that hard to make, but it took me a few hours to get the rendered image you see here. I added some glass material for the front windshield. I think it's cool that I was able to make the windshield glass, Yay for me!!

Rocket Launcher

I made a rocket launcher today. I followed the rocket launcher tutorial from blender noob to pro. When I've made the rocket launcher in the past I could not get the center(the little pink dot) to move to the ball bearing(yellow sphere), but today I got the center to go to the sphere which made me feel good. It frustrated me not getting the center to move to the sphere, well I don't have that frustration anymore.

Today I made something to sit on

I followed the blender 3d noob to pro seat tutorial to make this model. It did not take me long to make the seat, it's super easy. After I fished making the seat I added a material and colored it black and then rendered it. I think the seat turned out good.

I made some tires using blender

Today I made some tires with the help of another tutorial from blender 3d noob to pro. Making the wheels did not take very long and they where not that hard to make either. I don't know what else to write so that's all for today.

Yesterday I got the Lana Turner book that I won on February 3. Two things I like about the book are that it is huge and also it has lots of pictures. I don't know anything about Lana turner so I can't wait to read the book and learn more about here. What a great win.

Also yesterday I got an email saying I had won a DVD from a monthly entry sweepstakes I have been entering. It is the first monthly entry sweepstakes I have ever won. I've won daily, weekly, one entry, and now monthly entry sweepstakes. Yay for me!! I have not won any one entry ongoing sweepstakes I have entered, so hopefully I will win one of those this year too.

And today I got my first instant win of 2009. I won a free bag of combos snacks. I don't think I have ever tried combos snacks so it will be interesting to try a bag. It always makes me feel great to get an instant win.

What a great month February is turning out to be, 3 wins in the first 10 days of of the month. I am glad I did not give up after not winning in January and kept entering sweepstakes. If I had given up I would not have won all these nice prizes. I hope I get some more wins this month. That's all for today, bye.

Today I made a pencil

For my blender project today I made a pencil. I used this tutorial I got from CGTutorials. I liked making the pencil because it was so easy. I added an eraser at the top because I wanted to experiment. I think the pencil looks OK, well at least it looks like a pencil.

I a made a cup in blender

Today I made a cup using a cup tutorial I got from CGTutorials. It looks like a cup, but the handle is all messed up and the bottom of the cup is not right either. I'll have to practice making the cup so I can make it better.

Today I made another goblet

Today I made another goblet with the help of a tutorial from blender 3d noob to pro. I followed the second goblet tutorial where the goblet is made out of a cylinder. Yesterday I did the first goblet tutorial making my goblet out of a cube. It's interesting to see two different ways of making the same object.

I also created a cube and made grass come out of it. I wanted to put grass some where so I thought why not make it come out of a cube. I think the grass coming out of the cube looks neat, very cool!!

Today I made a goblet

Today I made a goblet with the help of a tutorial from blender 3d noob to pro. I think the model turned out OK.

Of course I had to add some grass for the goblet to sit on. Making grass is my new obsession, I have to add it to every render. That's all for today.

I made a die today

Today I made a die. I followed another tutorial from Blender 3d noob to pro. I don't think the die turned out to good, I must have made a mistake somewhere because the spots don't look right. I'll have to make another die and see if it comes out better. 

penguin that I made using blender

Today I made a penguin using blender. I created it with the help of a blender 3d noob to pro tutorial. I added some color and some grass. I love adding grass to blender scenes now that I know how to make grass. 

Gingerbread man in the grass

Today I did the gingerbread tutorial from the book Blender 3D Noob to Pro. The gingerbread man did not take long to make so I added some grass and a hat. The gingerbread man makes me think of gingerbread cookies, I love gingerbread cookies. Yummy.

Today I got my first sweepstakes win of 2009

Today I got my first sweepstakes win of 2009. I am not sure what I won. I got a phone call that asked to confirm my information. It's the first phone call that I have ever received telling me I have won a sweepstakes. So two firsts today, my first sweepstakes phone call and my first win of 2009. How great! I hope the wins keep coming.

Today I made grass using blender

Today I made grass using a tutorial I found on blender artists. It's a lot easier to make grass using blender than I would have thought. Making grass is fun. oops the picture is darker than I thought, but it's definitely grass.

Today I put clothes on a model

Today I put clothes on a model I exported from make human into blender. I found a clothing tutorial on this website I got from CGTutorals. I was not even looking for a tutorial to put clothes on a 3d human model, but I found the clothes tutorial and then decided to do it. Make human is great it makes me look like a great artist.

I also learned something else today. The last time I exported a make human model into blender all I got was a blank screen when I rendered the model. I though oh no the human models look great, but they must take a long time to render.

To day I also got a blank screen from the blender render, but this time I thought, what is the camera view so I checked and sure enough the camera was positioned so it looked inside the model, It might have even been inside the model. So I corrected the camera view and rendered the the scene and there the model was.

I created a human again

Today I was tired so I created a human again. At least I know I can remember all the steps to make a simple human. That's all for today.