White Gold

You always see the rich kings and princess eating expensively and drinking wine out of fancy goblets made of gold. We rarely realize that nearly everyone in developed countries lives more lavishly than the richest nobility from hundreds of years ago. Will people living hundreds of years from now think the same way of us?

Instead of a cube, I used a cylinder to make this goblet, which is why it looks much rounder. Then widened and narrowed it up and down accordingly to get the goblety shape. Blender makes scaling sets of vertices very easy, in any of 6 directions (not the 6 you might think - ask me if you are interested).

The tutorials I am doing slowly introduce new concepts and techniques. This time it was spotlights and shadows. Only one shadow so far, maybe I will do more in later models. And more details for reflections, such as fresnel effects. On both the goblet and the table surface. The final product looks like a drinking glass fit for a prince.