Applepie's Blog

I'm still playing with Blender. Right now, I'm going through a tutorial that's listing all of the modeling tools I can use. There's loads! I did this with the Bevel tool:


This used to be a cube. Needless to say, the example in the tutorial does not look like this. I got carried away. I was having fun beveling and it just... broke.

Lately, I've found myself with an older laptop.

It's got an ancient version of Blender on it, 2.79 (the current version is, I believe, 4 point something) and it's interesting. The computer is too old to upgrade to the current version, not enough cores it seems, but luckily a book came with it for Blender 2.79. I've been going through it, mostly in an effort to do something besides videogames in these cold winter evenings.

Guided by the book, my first efforts have been monkey heads, lovingly placed on a coloured background and lit nicely with multiple light sources... at least the first one was.


That one was rendered with Blender Render when I was finished moving the monkey head around and placing the lights. I like it, it's funny and it looks pretty good.

The second one was the exact same file, with the same lights and everything, just using the other render thing, called Cycles.


I don't know what happened! Why is my monkey head is in the dark in this one? The book said there would be some differences, but that much? This book really hyped up this Cycles renderer as the new hotness while Blender Render was supposed to be some depreciated old thing that people only use because it goes faster, but I like it better. At least I could see the monkey.