Possibly how everyone starts Blender - a Football(Blender Project -1)

The motive behind taking up this simple project was to get familiar with how to use Blender.

How to convert geometric shapes into something like this is an important skill to have to represent real life objects in the virtual space.

The Abstract Process

The football is built from editing an ico-sphere, by changing the amount of subdivisions and applying modifiers to divide the overall surface into a collection of pentagons and hexagons.

From there on, it was only about extruding faces(the aforementioned polygons) and solidifying those by using modifiers.

What I learnt

• The Blender Interface

• The beginning of cultivating an intuitive sense to map geometric shapes to real-life objects.

• How to convert an ico-sphere into a football through face extrusion, and solidifying the gaps.

• Materials use in Blender

If you want to learn more about my in-depth process and learnings, contact me here.