Art 343// Blender Sculptures

We had to create two sculptures in Blender, one created from our own imagination, and the second from copied free 3D models off of the internet.

Because I'm still learning on how to bring texture into Blender the first sculpture looks a bit crappy.  I tried to create a sort of flower pen with butterfly wings.  The pen is to resemble my love for art and drawing, while the flower says my appreciation about nature and the world.  The butterfly wings symbolize my love for bugs, and the small heart is just something that I always place within my signature.  Without the texture the sculpture looks a lot better, but it was my first time applying color in Blender and I don't think it came out as bad as it could have.  I tried to make all the parts have similar coloring so it would look as a single object, but I wonder now what would it have looked like if I did place the color as each item is individually.

The second sculpture I am much more proud of.  It was made in Blender 2.5 and it really shows the advanced capabilities of the new software.  It is just able to withstand far more graphical abuse than the first one, and is able to have immense detail.  However to learn it will be like learning Blender all over again.  Anyway, this is my Arch de Chair.  One day while walking along the riverside I saw a few teenagers skateboarding on the grounds of a theater building.  It annoyed me how a building that is used for the love of thespianism could have been so disrespected.  I then remembered how when people see buildings some just see it as a place to sit, no matter what it's history value is or it's architectural beauty.  I then began to think what if these beautiful works of art were then constructed from everyday chairs that we have come so accustom to sitting on?  Would they get what I mean or would they just find it amusing?  The human is there to show the size of the sculpture.  During the process nothing about the original chair model was altered and it was all built up from the same model.  I made sure to stack the chairs in a way that is almost believable, yet of course in real life some adhesive would most definitely be needed to be applied.  I really appreciate Blender and my computer for taking the graphical abuse I gave it because by the end of the project both began to run really slow.

--VMS