Luke Skywalker Lightsaber

This tutorial is a good one for beginners when it comes to modelling, but it also covers some more advanced Node Editing to create the light and texture effects, as well as composite editor for post processing.

This is a 2 part tutorial, the first part covers the modelling process of the lightsaber, the second part will cover the lighting of the scene, texture creating using cycles rendering engine, and then the setup for the final render.

The modelling process is very straight forward, we will start with a simple cylinder primitive and extrude it along the profile of our reference image. Once this is done, there’s some smoothing to be done and fixing of the sharp edges on the smooth surface. Finally there’s some small modelling details that we will do to finish off the lightsaber.

Star Wars X-Wing – Part 4

In this part of the tutorial series we will add some basic textures to our model using Blender’s built in texturing and colouring features. This will begin to give our model more realistic look and allow us to start blocking out the larger areas of colour so when we come to UV Unwrapping later and painting the model in a paint program we have a good idea what should be where.

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

Star Wars X-Wing – Part 3

In Part 3 we begin to add the smaller details to our Star Wars X-Wing aircraft. In Part 1 and 2 we modelled the main fuselage and wing sections.

Star Wars X-Wing – Part 1

Here’s Part 1 of my Star Wars X-Wing Tutorial. I’m sorry I haven’t done a complete tutorial on the Star Wars Imperial Star Destroyer, the project is just too large and detailed to really produce an effective tutorial for. However, by following along with this X-Wing tutorial you will create a really cool model, and it will tach you pretty much all the techniques I used to create the I.S.D. So here’s part 1 where we will cover setting up the reference imagery and beginning to model our basic fuselage shape.

Space Craft – “X Wing”

I started out on this project to create a Science Fiction inspired space craft. This is more of a fast jet type fighter spacecraft rather than a larger mothership type. Taking a lot of influence from the Star Wars X wing aircraft this is what I came up with in the space of around 8 hours of modelling. With some proper texturing this model could look really quite cool! For now anyways here’s the basic rendered output with Blender generated materials.

X-wing inspired Sci Fi Spacecraft

Blender created X-Wig Spacecraft

Here’s the final project file for download