Week 1 - Barrel and Bridge

Firstly, this week's work involved recreating a barrel in Blender based on the YouTube video by SirPinkBeard (2020).

The following is my created barrel based on this tutorial:

The next task was to recreate an image from a Tasmanian tourist site. For this task, I chose the Richmond bridge. The Richmond bridge is oldest stone arch bridge in Australia (Atlas Obscura, 2021).

Reference image of the bridge (Atlas Obscura, 2021).

This was quite a difficult project for me, as I was only new to Blender, so recreating the arches was tricky.

The following is the bridge I created in Blender:

Overall, I am relatively happy with this model. The shape of the bridge has some similarities to the actual structure, and with a little bit more work the texturing could provide a greater resemblance.

References:

Atlas Obscura, 2021. Richmond Bridge. Available at: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/richmond-bridge

SirPinkBeard, 2020. Blender 2.8 How to Create a Wooden Barrel. Available at: https://youtu.be/HggtU6Nzlao