I’m going to start blogging properly, so what I’ve wanted to do for quite some time now is to recreate the BB-8 droid from Star Wars. It is seemingly a simple shape, made from a UV sphere for the bottom and another one cut in half for the top, with a little altering such as extruding and scaling. I think that BB-8’s look is mostly created through its texture. So the mesh is going to be a very simple one, but the texture is going to be the challenging part. Which is good, because I’m confident in my mesh building abilities, but not in my texturing abilities. BB-8 has 3 main colours, which are white, orange and a dark grey. The surface is also panelled. I won’t use the technique with the modifiers that I used for Ship-E, because it created quite a few problems with the texture later on, so what I’ll try this time is to create the panels with a bump map. BB-8 is altogether a little dirty and shows a little wear and tear which I’ll create in Substance Painter later on.