Low-poly modelling in Blender

I’ve dived into Blender once again… and I couldn’t resist making cute model-like low-poly objects! :)

Mina Pêcheux
Nerd For Tech
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7 min readJun 13, 2021

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TOC | Low-poly model in Blender: “the pickup” ➡️

The other day, I reopened my Blender to try out some basic scene layout. Nothing fancy, just a few cubes floating about because I wanted to play around with the depth of field effect.

Blender’s logo

Anyway — four hours later, when I looked up from my laptop, I realized that I’d done it again: I’d lost myself in 3D modelling. CGI and 3D render is this sort of topic that I’ve never actually learnt properly but that I keep falling back into from time to time.

And this time, I decided to go for a low-poly style, and to make a little tree: here is a 1' timelapse video of the result :)

Low-poly?

As I was wandering about and searching for Blender tutorials, I eventually found the Youtube channel of Stefan Persson, aka Imphenzia. This guy is amazing: in addition to all his game development and musics, he…

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Mina Pêcheux
Nerd For Tech

I’m a freelance full-stack web & game developer. I’m passionate about topics like CGI, music, data science and more! Find me at: https://minapecheux.com :)