Blending Alien Crabs at Brooklyn Spark

Last year I checked out an Intro to 3d Character Design workshop lead by Wyatt Bertz at the Brooklyn Spark makerspace.

Over three evenings, we progressed from learning the basics of Blender’s interface and fundamental modeling techniques and used them to build up a scene. We started with simple shapes, working through how to manipulate vertices, edges, and faces. 

As the course went on, we started experimenting with modifiers, shading, and even basic animation principles. And while we did touch on rigging in our last session, it didn’t make it into my final scene. I find my protagonist’s whole-body skittering charming, even if it is a little stiff.