3D rendering of Lego block
Sunday, November 11th, 2007
The 3D image above is my quick attempt at something rather familiar, Lego. It took about 1 hour to create the model and about 2 mins to render using Blender and yafray. Below are my comments on the rendering:
- I added 4 lamps to illuminate the whole object (the 1 starting lamp wasn’t enough) and also the gaps between the blocks, I think this adds a more realistic feel to the picture.
- As you may also see the proportions of circular extruded parts aren’t perfect either, they don’t actually line up with each other like real Lego does and so won’t actually fit together. This is visible in the left hand corner of the block.
- Each piece is a clone of the next, therefore all I’ve effectively created are 4 walls rather then a block, how misleading!
My next attempts will be to make more proportionally sized pieces, create other parts missed out and put it all together to create a robot.