User blog:GeoFruck/TV Jack-o-lantern Project

Hi all :) So, this actually is a little related to my video game making quest.  My most recent software du jour is an amazing piece of freeware, again brought to us by the open source community (bless their souls), called Blender.  This package is not for the meek of heart, in fact, if you've never messed with any imaging software at all, like GIMP or Inkscape, you may want to check those out first.  But, hey, it's free, so knock yourself out if you want :P

Anyway, I have found the learning curve to be quite present with blender, but I have spent the last couple of weeks of my unemployed recent past learning this amazing program. So, the first step in this was to make a pumpkin, which I have posted today. The next step will be the carving. Now, I don't know how to do things very small, so I want to make an awesome jack-o-lantern. I've always admired those 3D looking pumpkins that people somehow carve, so that's what I want to do here. It will be of the level 14 village rock idol. It turns out that the easiest way to do this is to actually make a 3D idol, which I will do first, and post it here, before a picture of the jack-o-lantern. For the finale, a full on video :D Not sure how long...I'm guessing 20-30 seconds. I don't not how long you can milk that for, so....anyway, stay tuned!