We started off with getting our characters vibe assigned to us. I got steam punk which I’m really happy about because I love the vibe and it’s not that much out of my comfort zone but still challenging enough for me.
To get to know more about steam punk I did some research, I found out that steampunk is a subgenre of science fiction and it is usually set in Victorian times (19th century). As it says steam punk has a lot of mechanisms powered by steam. So in my room you will see a lot of gears, pipes and steam powered mechanisms.
After that I made some mood-,style- and décor boardts get to know the vibe I wanted the character to give off.
Moodboard
styleboard
Decor board
Then we got to give our character a name and make a short story about who they are, what they do etc.
picking a name was difficult because a had a lot of ideas, but the 3 names that stood out the most where:
picking a name was difficult because a had a lot of ideas, but the 3 names that stood out the most where:
1. Clementine
2. Evangelene
3. Adelia
The one I liked the most was Adelia because its unique and also easy to say and spell.
The short story
Adelia is a 17 year old teenager who lives in the attic of a great and famous inventor. She was left on the streets by her parents because they didn’t want a child, but luckily the inventor saw the crying baby and brought her into his home like she was his own. Even though she was abandoned by her parents she still got lots of love from the inventor. She learned so much from him, how to power stuff with steam, designing own creations and bringing them to life but also how to make a living out of it. She loves tinkering, making her own clothes and also help the inventor with his inventions. She spends a lot of time behind her desk designing new creations and not long ago she got her own metal oven stove so she does not have to worry about bringing stuff up and down the stairs to go to the inventors metal oven stove. She love being in her room and letting her creative mind flow. Almost everything she has in her room she made herself, like the gear clock, the old record players she upcycled or the zeppelin that flies circles. Not long ago the inventor offered her a job, she was so excited she started working on it directly (that’s probably why you’ll see that her desk is kind of messy). It’s a big project so hopefully shell be able to finished it on time, but the inventor says not to worry, she knows what she is doing.
Adelia is a 17 year old teenager who lives in the attic of a great and famous inventor. She was left on the streets by her parents because they didn’t want a child, but luckily the inventor saw the crying baby and brought her into his home like she was his own. Even though she was abandoned by her parents she still got lots of love from the inventor. She learned so much from him, how to power stuff with steam, designing own creations and bringing them to life but also how to make a living out of it. She loves tinkering, making her own clothes and also help the inventor with his inventions. She spends a lot of time behind her desk designing new creations and not long ago she got her own metal oven stove so she does not have to worry about bringing stuff up and down the stairs to go to the inventors metal oven stove. She love being in her room and letting her creative mind flow. Almost everything she has in her room she made herself, like the gear clock, the old record players she upcycled or the zeppelin that flies circles. Not long ago the inventor offered her a job, she was so excited she started working on it directly (that’s probably why you’ll see that her desk is kind of messy). It’s a big project so hopefully shell be able to finished it on time, but the inventor says not to worry, she knows what she is doing.
After we got our assigned character we needed to make a block out in blender of your own room and the room you wanted to create for your character.
My room block out
Steampunk room Block out
After we got our assigned character we needed to make a block out in blender of your own room and the room you wanted to create for your character.
Then we started creating the final product. I started with is simple block that I formed into the room within edit mode.
After that I made the wooden floor panels by using loop cuts for the deferent wooden panels. Then I uses inset faces and I dragged down the sides to separate the wood and the floorboard.
The gears you see almost everywhere are made in the same way but just with less or more faces than the other.
I started with a cylinder and deleting the top and bottom faces, then I selected all the remaining faces and I extrude them so the boarder would be thicker. To make the things (the tooths of the gear) stick out I selected one face left the next one alone and then select the next face, by using shift+ctrl+numpad plus I could easily select the ones I wanted. Then I just extruded them out by using extrude along normals. I repeated those steps till they looked like gears.
To create the little desk, base of the record player and the big desk I started with a cube that I made as big as I wanted it to be. To create the corners on top of them I extrude the top face, then I selected de sides and I extruded them also. Then I made them round with the bevel tool.
to create the drawers and side decorations I first made some loop cuts to create the drawers, then I selected the faces and I used inset faces to create more faces. Then I selected those faces and I extruded them, then i flacked on the front facing face and made it round with the bevel tool.
to create the drawers and side decorations I first made some loop cuts to create the drawers, then I selected the faces and I used inset faces to create more faces. Then I selected those faces and I extruded them, then i flacked on the front facing face and made it round with the bevel tool.
To create the oven I used the same techniques that I used for the desk.
To create the wallpaper I just used faces and I put an image texture on top of it (The black and white image of the photo) then I used alpha blend to make the background transparent.
After we created our room we also had to do something with songs that fit the vibe, so I made a playlist on Spotify that describes the vibe with songs.
I really enjoyed this assignment. Before this assignment I haven’t done anything yet in blender, I did do some sculpting in nomad sculpt but that’s a little different from blender. But because of this assignment I now know the basics of blender and I can create environments with it. I highly suggest you try out blender yourself, it may seem hard but just watch a bunch of tutorials and you will see its fairly easy.
Thank you for taking a look at my behance:)
Thank you for taking a look at my behance:)
