Talk:Blender 3D: Noob to Pro/Penguins from spheres

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[edit] Coloring

I colored the rest of this little guy using the Multiple Mesh technique. Here's what he looks like: http://img324.imageshack.us/img324/291/penguin1wn.png I'll probably add a section on how to do so, if nobody minds.

Sorry for making all of you guys wait, other things have come up. I've got to register with Wikipedia to upload the pics, which will slow down any work I'm going to do. If I can't do it for some reason I'll let you guys know.
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Hi, My Name is Craig, i havnt got a clue how to colour my penguin, i have made him to how the tut says to, but im a bit puzzeled about how to colour him, could somone please add something onto this tut about colouring.

Thanks

EDIT:

i have now coloured him and i dont need any help but it still may be a good idea to post how to colour it for other people.

i used the same technique from the dice tut.

[edit] Fixed the Limit selection to visible picture

It was pointing to the wrong button before, so I replaced it with a picture of my own. -Cleobod

[edit] just a little correction

[edit] Step 1

to put cursor in middle from the box it says, selection-cursor, but it is cursor-selection instead

[edit] Step 3 – the head

Shouldn't limit selection to visable be turned on here?

[edit] Step 4 - The Wings

At the end of this step, you have to select the two backmost vertices, but I couldn't find the ones so it is the same as on the picture

[edit] Step 5

Says: Now select the bottom most vertices in the same fashion, and press SHIFT + FKEY to Fill the hollow bottom of the poor bottomless penguin.

Shouldnt it just be FKEY for new face?

Nope, it would work if there were only 3 or 4 vertices, but FKEY for new face can't cope with so many at once. It makes at most a single new face, and blender's faces cannot have more than 4 vertices. Shift-FKEY tries to work out a way to connect all the vertices using as many faces as it needs.
-- Darloth is terrible at explanations, but hopefully that helped.

[edit] Making the Neck

Could someone explain this in a little more detail I'm having trouble forming the neck?

Me too. I get up to the part that says " repeat (selection, etc.)" but what part do i repeat do I unselect and do the same thing over or continue on with the top 3 already selected. Instead of repeating I ended up extruding the middle then rotating it a little:

I did this by:

From the picture directly right of Rotating the neck:

1. Extrude the top 3 rings up (just less than double the size) 2. Rotate them 45 Counter-Clockwise 3. Extrude the top 2 rings (double their size) 4. Rotate the extruded part 50 Counter-CLockwise

I ended up with this: http://img103.imageshack.us/img103/8686/penguinfv0.jpg (sorry can't upload images to wiki for 4 days)

Start: http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/7466/penguin1kp7.jpg Stage 1: http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/1289/penguin2dh6.jpg Stage 2: http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/3517/penguin3zf2.jpg Stage 3: http://img103.imageshack.us/img103/8977/penguin4vy2.jpg

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