https://www.golubon.ca/blender-projects daily 0.75 2021-06-22 https://www.golubon.ca/blender-projects/made-obsession-black-beauty monthly 0.5 2021-06-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e488fdff7877145fa1324fa/1590544963626-P0ZJBJ092CR1IMM9TEVP/Colours_wood_grain.png Blender - Black Beauty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e488fdff7877145fa1324fa/1590545797303-P4C1CHSGXSPQ1HTFPA0X/Tuning_Pegs.png Blender - Black Beauty - Starting off with the project was mostly research, finding a bunch of good reference pieces to use and base my model off of. In my head I was going to make the most accurate model of a Les Paul as I could. To some degree, that’s true, I did finish with the best I could do. But it would be no where near where I wanted. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e488fdff7877145fa1324fa/1590546838983-VO66G0D2WHUHND9Y6CG3/Bridgfe_Tail_Tuner.png Blender - Black Beauty - I’d get through eventually and thankfully move on to two much easier components next. The bridge and saddle for the strings. Despite the small parts, they were relatively much easier than the tuning peg. All in all, just a couple cubes and cylinders needing to be mixed together creatively. And made even easier with the fact that these components were symmetrical. I think between these three parts I had spent about a week. I was making good progress, heck I even got to playing with multi axis rotations to do this fun little picture now that I had more than one object to render with. Week 2 in contrast would just be tedious. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e488fdff7877145fa1324fa/1590544586378-KZ1NU1EDL46WZDECB8B7/image-asset.png Blender - Black Beauty - When I was first picking up blender I started where most people do, the infamous donut render by BlenderGuru. I really like this tutorial, it’s able to cover a lot of ground in a short period. I think I did each of the sections in their own dedicated night and had a basic model done within a week. It’s encouraging, you feel constant progress with the tools in front of you and get familiarity quickly. But that feeling of encouragement can lead to ambition, and ambition left unchecked can lead to obsession. I didn’t plan to take on an absurdly difficult project as my first non-tutorial model, but somehow this one donut made me think I was ready to do something crazy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e488fdff7877145fa1324fa/1590542108218-UHMCP2O1F7CS23HGPR9T/image-asset.png Blender - Black Beauty - If you told me that I could have one guitar and only one guitar for the rest of my days you’d never get an answer. There’s simply too many that I could list off. The Velvet by Magneto guitars has a certain classic distinguished look and feel to it. Godin’s latest iteration on the Montreal Premier line has had me interested for a long time. Of course every guitar player has dreamed of having a Gretsch White Falcon (if not to play, then just to own) and as a Brian Setzer fan I’d sure like to have one to jam out on. If instead you asked me which guitar I think has the most striking design, I’d have to go with the Les Paul Custom, better known as a Black Beauty. Many months in high school as a music gear head were dedicated to being all together way too absorbed with this guitar. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e488fdff7877145fa1324fa/1590545935309-QK2Z595F5A8MMDYB969O/Tuning_Peg_Done.png Blender - Black Beauty - My first component was the tuning peg. Pretty auspicious a choice at first glance. It’s pretty boxy and mostly covered by the headstock so there’s a fair bit of wiggle room to get things hidden on this model. And then the new problems started coming in. The bevel of the back of the tuning peg not shown in either of the views provided. The irregular shape of the handle that was also concave. The need to have a smooth peg for the string to wind around, but also having to manage the mesh to punch a smooth hole into that peg. I feel like there’s easy ways to accomplish these tasks, but none of them were covered in the donut…none of them where covered in the donut. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e488fdff7877145fa1324fa/1590547790536-T31V66IZKEA87QXBI902/with-frets.png Blender - Black Beauty - Week 3 is probably where I felt like I spent the most amount of time. The most fun too to be honest. The fretboard has a compounding radius, usually going from about 12” at the headstock and then to 16” at around the end. The fretboard also gains a bit of width as things get closer to the base of the neck. The back side can have a more constant radius, but will gain that same thickness and has to smoothly translate into both the heel and the headstock. The headstock itself is at a steep angle, I believe mine is 14 degrees. And then there was the binding. I cheated a little bit on this part. Highlight the outer edges of the mesh, duplicated them, separate into a distinct object, recolour and then scale just enough to appear on the outside from all angles. The fretting and inlay work was rather quick to be honest and I think the most fun part was putting my logo on the headstock. Never thought I’d see that in my time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e488fdff7877145fa1324fa/1590548192049-WJJWJOGA1BH0MDJAHVXU/Rocksmith.png Blender - Black Beauty - The final week was the body of the guitar and some of the bits and bobs like the control knobs and the selector switch. This is where I came accept the donut was not enough and I’d have to take on more projects before I tackle something this complex again. As seen here, I’ve done a slight replication of the viewing angle provided by the Rocksmith game cover to see how my model fared out. The body is flat in the end instead of the traditional Les Paul arch top because I couldn’t figure out that topology to save my life right now, but I’m quite pleased. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e488fdff7877145fa1324fa/1590547113038-KA14LBCG1H8TDD17A3JA/cases-rough.png Blender - Black Beauty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e488fdff7877145fa1324fa/1590547117336-HIAOKTQL8TFRQ9JJI5DM/Pickup-Face.png Blender - Black Beauty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e488fdff7877145fa1324fa/1590547117581-D4JXSGJ1IJ6DMPYF52PF/Pickup-Face-mirror-1.png Blender - Black Beauty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e488fdff7877145fa1324fa/1590547119827-5YE7M0O4T4DW0VDSDXM7/Pickup-Face-mirror-2.png Blender - Black Beauty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e488fdff7877145fa1324fa/1590547120409-Z7AZSXUFWWEZQNA6GTL9/Pickup-Face-mirror-3.png Blender - Black Beauty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e488fdff7877145fa1324fa/1590547121817-S71FSTJSR0WXBQODKH6L/Pickup-Wound.png Blender - Black Beauty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e488fdff7877145fa1324fa/1590547122598-HDOOLJ0W0VDMC6IJWLPF/uncovered_pickup.png Blender - Black Beauty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e488fdff7877145fa1324fa/1590547115258-HZUXFIXEJ185XX4B2YYX/dual_humbuckers.png Blender - Black Beauty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e488fdff7877145fa1324fa/1590547115479-C1Y49TZ32YNA2D40XYP5/dual_humbuckers-rings-1k-no-cover.png Blender - Black Beauty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e488fdff7877145fa1324fa/1590547113516-YUU8CPWHMR1HNPS6SQ7G/Bridge-With-Ring.png Blender - Black Beauty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e488fdff7877145fa1324fa/1590548361321-W8YWG1EUXASPUPLCS9DE/From-HeadStock.png Blender - Black Beauty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e488fdff7877145fa1324fa/1590548361485-BXW4T415D5FI04W28V8C/Hardware.png Blender - Black Beauty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e488fdff7877145fa1324fa/1590548363552-XUAA8V6OVAZFSKG1ES48/Headstock.png Blender - Black Beauty https://www.golubon.ca/blender-projects/category/Footwear monthly 0.5 https://www.golubon.ca/blender-projects/category/Fashion monthly 0.5 https://www.golubon.ca/blender-projects/category/Featured monthly 0.5 https://www.golubon.ca/about daily 1.0 2021-06-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e488fdff7877145fa1324fa/1581815786050-RLHQGKKQFI3GZ7MLT7NV/Neven+Barcadia-0030.jpg About Me https://www.golubon.ca/game-development daily 0.75 2021-06-21 https://www.golubon.ca/game-development/dozo-quest monthly 0.5 2021-06-22 https://www.golubon.ca/game-development/gekku-race monthly 0.5 2021-06-22 https://www.golubon.ca/game-development/biri-brawl monthly 0.5 2021-06-22 https://www.golubon.ca/game-development/bobo-ranch monthly 0.5 2021-06-22 https://www.golubon.ca/game-development/wiskin-defense monthly 0.5 2021-06-22 https://www.golubon.ca/game-development/dino-dash monthly 0.5 2021-06-22 https://www.golubon.ca/game-development/pogi-pong monthly 0.5 2021-06-22