Extrusions, Scaling, and Glasses
honestly stressed over not being able to physically model for the past couple of days as I prepared for a work-related event. I went to Michigan on Monday and didn't have a chance to practice my rad 3D modeling skills. Although I did bring my laptop and mouse just in case I found some time! But to make a long story short, I didn't find the time haha.
What I did instead was watch a great short video on how to make a wine glass. It was a simple Blender exercise with CG Essentials. I watched the video a few days ago and figured that once I got home, I'd try it out myself. So, here we are! The wine glass was relatively simple to create. I made it out of a cylinder, 8 loop cuts, and the subdivision surface modifier. I then got inspired to create the fanciest glass of them all - the coupe! This was a pretty low-effort modeling session. I now want to make even more glasses hah - maybe an entire fancy collection of cocktail glasses?
When making the glasses hollow, I learned that one method to do so was to extrude the top face and then scale it inwards. After scaling inwards, I could then use extrude again and move the extrusion downwards. After moving it down, I could scale once again to shape the vertices in alignment with the shape of the glass. I continued that method until I reached the bottom of the glass. It was a pretty cool technique, actually!
The only thing that I couldn't figure out was how to change the inside color of the glass. There weren't faces created for the interior, therefore, I couldn't give the inside a different color. Not that it was important but I at least wanted to see how that would look.
I also used the Z shortcut a lot to switch between wireframe and solid mode. I feel like I'm getting so much better with the shortcuts!
What I was about to leave out was my attempt to make a glass material for the glasses. Ya'll, I tried 3-4 tutorials and eventually gave up. I didn't like the techniques that were being demonstrated. Plus, I wanted colored glass. That's what I get for getting ahead of myself to learn more about creating materials.
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