Low-poly model in Blender: a little robot
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These past few weeks, I’ve been diving back into 3d. And among other things, I’ve had some fun with low-poly modelling — designing a little tree, or some rocks, or even a basic pickup truck!
To continue in this low-poly vibe, I went for something a bit more futuristic and made a little sentinel robot. It’s (very) loosely based on the Imperial probe robots we see in Star Wars, on the planet Hoth (in the Empire Strikes Back movie which is the best one of the series, don’t try to deny it!)…
This robot was once again made with the open-source Blender software. The modelling was pretty straight-forward. The small trick that I used here was to leverage the Blender’s “Mirror” modifier to quickly make the legs. This modifier allows you to only worry about half your mesh and have all your modifications automatically be mirrored along an axis or a specific object. This way, you’re sure to get something symmetrical and not to forget some backfaces! ;)
Bonus: if you watch the video carefully, you’ll see that I use this modifier both for the front legs and the back leg. However in the second case, I turn the “clipping” option on so that any point crossing the mirror axis is simply “merged” with the other half and…
