Green Ooze

Today's material that I covered in the "Blender 3D: Noob to Pro" ebook involved materials and textures. What does this mean? It means basically what it sounds like; instead of the object in the program having the same old boring, arbitrary textures and colors, I learned how to manipulate the characteristics of the object to give them a different "material" (i.e. plastic, metal, ceramic, etc.) and a different texture.

The "plastic" material

The "metal" material

The "ceramic" material

Additionally, I learned how to change the textures of the object to make it seem as though it were made of different, odd materials. The first tutorial was to make a cube look like a block of wood through manipulation of color, shading, and texture. Although that mini-project was cool, I particularly enjoyed the creation of the blob of "green ooze" (hence the title of this post). It is, as the name implies, a blob of green ooze.

"Green Ooze"

Flatter "Green Ooze"

Oh, and I made a beach ball.

A beach ball

Ben Wu