Talk:Blender 3D: Noob to Pro/Modeling a Gingerbread Man

In the beginning
Put the new vertices on the gray line? What gray line??

Bryan

"Then, select the vertices in the middle of the bone and press GKEY for grab and put it down like this."

Like what?? Please provide the pictures... We are all beginners here, how are we suppose to know what you mean by 'like this'??

Stanley, yet another frustrated beginner.


 * Don't worry guys, here you will see all those nice missing pictures in the future. In the meantime you can check other finished Blender tutorials.--Popski 11:52, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Illustrations
For those who need illustrations like myself, go to this website: http://www.blender.org/modules/documentation/htmlI/book1.html

Then, scroll down to 'Table of Contents' and click on 'Your first animation in 30+30 minutes'. This guide you in building your gingerbreadman, but with more illustrations. Enjoy your learnings!


 * That link seems to be invalid now. However, Googling for the name, it seems that the gingerbreadman tutorial is also available here: http://download.blender.org/documentation/htmlI/c1208.html --Slapout 21:26, 14 July 2005 (UTC)


 * That one looks dead also. Here's new link http://docs.huihoo.com/blender/user-guide-2.3/ch04.html found from Google -- Roli

Added a simple graphic for the meantime. It should look better, but at least people will be able to understand what to do.

Added images
I added some images and then changed the text to be consistent with what was produced. A speherical head just didn't make sense for a gingerbread man. --Darkonc 11:33 6 Oct 2005 (PDT)

Smoothing the head
The text said to smooth the head first but the picture showed the body smoothed first. It doesn't matter which you smooth first, so I changed the order in the text. Also, the intro description says this page will cover basic lighting, but it doesn't. Should the page be marked as incomplete? 68.126.1.251 20:23, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

Redundant tutorial (double)
This feels just like the man produced in the earlier steps, with the exception that this one feels easier... Replace? 81.224.183.67 20:27, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

I think the original gingerbread man tutorial also included armature and simple animation. 69.91.82.27 22:41, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, i totally agree. This didnt bring any new knowledge inn. Its just plain simple, and a lack of progress.

This could become an advanced tutorial in modeling, if the gum drops and the way to texture them, as well as adding bones, and how to add/remove mesh areas from bones they don't belong too were added. Pearts (talk) 23:21, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

This tutorial doesn't seem to be very different from modelling a simple person 1 and 2.

Improper Modeling Technique
The head should not be a separate object from the body. Why don't we scrap this tutorial altogether?


 * I may just be a noob, but all these reasons for removal sound good to me. Didn't introduce anything new really. Go ahead! Remove! Or add as a footnote to the simple man modelling.

Great texture button screen shots
I think the great screen shots of the texture panels should be added to the volcano tutorial. Pearts (talk) 23:22, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

2.78a
Hello, in the 2.78a version the Subsurf function is placed in another area of the screen. Please show where to click, if you want to find the modifiers tab. OliverBear (discuss • contribs) 09:06, 25 July 2018 (UTC)