I was definitely taken by surprise with the amount of time this project would take. I took me at least two days of messing around with Blender before I really contemplated giving up. I went through a few forums asking desperate questions and watching tutorials until someone suggested I look a program called SketchUp (because I thought Blender and Maya were too difficult). If I could describe how different SketchUp is from Blender I would say it's the same different as using Paint instead of Photoshop. There are A LOT less tools, shortcuts, and methods to memorize. The only thing that was somewhat difficult with SketchUp was not having objects like cubes and spheres provided and each object you create has to be drawn together by different points. Luckily, I have a Wacom Tablet so that was not too much of a concern as I got used to it. The flowers were as easy as making one petal and then mass producing it. The origami cranes were about the only thing I got used to thanks to Blender and I was able to upload that origami paper pattern to the "materials" section and paint it onto each crane. The bottom of the pot was easy and the soil was just a duplicate of the pot with random geometric shapes on top to close it up. I am embarrassed that I was not able to put on the paper fan… or the sand dollar… or the om pendant… But I did something! And it was WAY tough. It seems like this program is popular amongst architects and engineers because it is practically drafting an object. Anyway, I enjoyed the challenge of trying something completely new.
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