My experience with creating my key to success was, I feel, an interesting one! It had a few twists and turns, but I wound up happy with my end product and happier that I was able to learn something by the end.
I first had to start with choosing my key. I chose the accept failure key because I know I tend to be a perfectionist. I like things to be wrapped up neat and tidy, and I often feel that if I can’t do something perfectly I may as well not do it at all, which leads me to procrastinating or worse: never starting. But failure is not something to be afraid of. Learning from failure is vital to producing something you’re actually happy with.
So I felt the accept failure key would be perfect!
I started by importing an image of the 2D key to use as a reference in blender. This way I could match up my key’s proportions as best as possible.
It was an interesting learning curve, trying to get used to blender. My experience with making the practice couch came in handy, since I now knew how to work the basics of object mode and edit mode, but learning to combine objects, make curves, and unique shapes like the top of the key still took more time than I had originally expected.
I also struggled when making the unique key cut outs at the bottom. I ended up combining multiple rectangular cubes together, but this created some strange overlapping sections and I could not get them on exactly the same plane. This is most certainly a process that could be made easier, but I could not figure out how.
I also struggled a lot with trying to make the gold texture in blender. I managed to make it somewhat metallic, but the shadows ended up strange and very harsh. I would like to dive more into texture painting inside of blender.
I would say these two things were my ‘failures’ when making this key. But that’s not a bad thing! After all, this is the accept failure key to success, and I intend to do just that. Making this key and seeing where I struggled showed me my weak points, and tells me where I need to focus in my future assignments.
Over all I enjoyed the process of making this key quite a bit. I am excited to see where 3D design continues to take me, and to see how my designs are implemented into our Second Life world!
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