Bonus render with the visor up that the op couldn't do either.

A few years ago that was a given. I believe that you did that yourself. But AI frontier models, or some of them, can generate blend files now. They are probably not as good as a person who knows Blender well, and they still can't do the more complex texturing and such. But they might be able to do the base model.

Now, it wouldn't take the 30 mins they took to use AI to do the first one, lots of edits and redos to get things right. To do a lot of models, it's best to just learn Blender. Hell, you might learn Blender by having to help the model correct mistakes. But they can do some basics now.

Yeah there were a lot of inconsistencies that made it obviously ai, and to do them in blender would have been difficult to achieve intentionally so it was pretty dumb for op to try and argue that it wasn't ai.

• The glass visor has reflections in some places, but not all of them so it looks like there isn't one on the bottom half of her face.

• There's no distortion of her face from curved glass. If you compare my renders with the visor down vs up, you can see it magnifies get face a bit and you can't see the neck even though it's there in both renders.

• Her outfit is asymmetrical.

• The visor shows a light to the top right, which is correct for her helmet and the right side of the cheese, but then her suit is lit from below to the right with the shadows cast upwards. Then the highlight in the cheese is from the top left as if the light is directly over her, but that wouldn't light the side of the moon so evenly.

• And it's low resolution, with a weird crop. Idk why anyone would set their camera to render 1003x1030, while my render is a 1080x1080 square.

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At the time I had a couple of years of faffing about blender and doing tutorials and little bits of art. Nothing serious.

To be fair, 30 minutes is a speed run and the model isn't really usable for anything except a still render. There are a lot of improvements I could make I reckon. If I wanted to put her in any other pose for example, it would take a few hours to tidy the scene and fix the mesh. If I wanted to animate her or make the model game ready it would probably take me a day or two of full time work.

It's very rewarding though, I highly recommend learning blender. And it's free, which you can't say about much these days.

Great question, I wondered the same!

Sure lol

i make low poly animated space stations in blender when i'm sad

Does anyone remember Truespace?

Yeah if I were to work on the longer there are a lot of improvements I could make, but it was literally just to win an argument on a slow day lol. The textures here are all just flat colours.