Thursday, December 9, 2010

Drifloon, not so good.

Well here's my attempt at Drifloon.


The eyes are there, they just blend with the dark purple.


And here you can see how the cloud I made didn't match up at all.

I never actually thought about the cloud until after I had started him, so that explains why that didn't turn out so well. I'll probably wait a while longer to finish this guy up, long enough to mabye figure out a trick for that cloud.

For right now, I'm going to try something a little more simple, probably an oddish, since the only hard part about that might be the leaves, but I've actually thought about that this time. It'll take a bit of time, since I plan to do each of the leaves separately.

I'm still waiting until I can do harder things, and I definitely can't wait until I can do a Metagross or a Gallade. Hopefully somebody will start to follow this blog soon, it's kinda disappointing doing this with no one to watch.

Thursday, December 2, 2010

Voltorb

Seems simple enough, a big sphere with eyes. Then again, took me two days of almost non-stop work to complete it.



This was the skin design I used. i made it in paint, every pixel is a stitch, and black dots in the middle are just counting markers that I used.
The Voltorb is 100 stitches by 60 stitches, like I said in my previous post. Not sure if I want to make anything else that big anymore, but we'll see what the future holds

I had a few changes from my previous sphere besides size. This time, I cast on the 100 stitches, then knitted the first row and thread the string through that row. After that, I pearled second row, knitted third, and so on until I had 60 rows, then I thread another string through that row, then cast off to finish the rectangle. Afterwards, I sewed it like a regular sphere, though I made sure to use white on white and red on red, then I closed off the bottom, stuffed it through the top, and closed off the top. I think this was quite good for a first time making something like this.

I'm not going to say what my next plan is, but it will be a little bit more complicated than just a sphere, that way I can start learning some proportions, since that's the whole reason I started this in the first place. All in all, I'm just glad I was able to get something good up here.

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Second Assignment Post, Sphere Completed.

In my first post I said my first project would be to make a single colored sphere. Well, I finished it, though I wasn't as close to being done with it as I thought.

On the first try, I did it in halves. The problem with this is that the middle part that I sewed together wasn't as flexible as the rest of the sphere, so it turned out more oval-ish than circle-ish. Hopefully I can find my SD card converter and post up a picture of it.

To solve this problem, I cast on 30 stitches, then rand a piece of yarn through the stitches I had on the needle without removing the stitches from the needle, and before I cast off my yarn, I did the same thing. Basically, by the end I had a string hanging from each of the four corners of my 30 by 18 rectangle (this is the number of stitches when using 10mm needles). When I had the yarn off of the needle, I tied together the 2 top strings and pulled tight and did the same with the bottom. Then I stuffed it and sewed it shut.

It still has some issues, but with this I think I can move on to my next project. I will making a Voltorb Plushie now. It doesn't seem like a big step up, since it's still just a sphere, but now I have to worry about the "skin", basically what colors go where, and this time I'm going on a bigger scale, 100 by 60. I don't know how long this is going to take, but I will make sure I have some way to put up pictures.

EDIT: Found my converter, so now I can put up pictures :D

Bottom view, and the biggest problem I'm having with my spheres. Hopefully it will be fixed.

Side view, not too bad if I do say so myself.

Top view, working on making it a little better.

Blogging assignment, beginning

This blog is the start of an assignment for my ATEC 2320 class. I am supposed to start a theme for my blogs, and since I am interested in designing 3D characters, I want to have something with that. However, I have very little experience with 3D designing programs, so I decided I'd try to relate it to something I know how to do. I couldn't think of anything, but as my luck usually is, i found inspiration while looking around for something completely unrelated to my assignment.

An interesting fact about me is that I am the only male that I know who currently knits. I was searching online for ideas on what to make next, when I came across this blog here. I liked how these were made with only yarn and stuffing, but I don't know how to crochet. So instead, I am going to try to figure out how to make these guys and more through my knitting.

For my first experiment, I a trying to make a simple, single color sphere. It sounds easy, but I have already failed twice. I am on my third attempt. This related to 3D design because I am using this to learn proportions, and I am technically making 3D models, just without the aid of a computer. I am almost done with my sphere, and I hope to find a way to upload a picture from my phone to my computer, I just have to find my SD card converter.

As I go, I am going to try more and more different models, and hopefully by the end of this I'll be able to make something more than simple shapes.