More refinement work on the glider. It still amazes me director Hayao Miyazaki has this vision of story telling and imagination of the future. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind is actually a 1984 movie, probably well before you were born, yet the idea of this glider still looks modern and has every possibility of it becoming a reality in the future.

I’m starting to make this my own reality from this model. It’s all coming to shape. The turbines is a bit tricky since there isn’t a lot of clear references, so I’m just doing my best judgement of [...]

I was looking for something simple yet also cool to model to improve my Blender skills. What I came across was a glider from one of my favourite Japanese anime movie Nausicaa of the valley of the wind from director Hayao Miyazaki.

If you haven’t heard about it watch the trailer below. Behind the idea of this Studio Ghibli 1984 movie still amazes me. The story, character, creatures, environment, vehicles are all unique and interesting.

So for this new set of project I’m going to take the glider from this anime movie and recreate a 3D model of [...]