A rainy day = a little bit of frizz

So I took on a challenge today.  Wanted to do some modeling without any tutorials.  So I picked this guy because I could see the simple shapes that make up the potato head.  It's not as simple as it looks but I was able to get where I wanted with it.  Happy Monday.

What's worse than getting a piece a gum stuck on the bottom of your shoe? Getting a black gumball.  Try as I may, I cannot render this gumball machine to show it's true colors.  For some reason the light isn't getting through the glass sphere.  So I am left with black gumballs.  What? I thought maybe it was a positioning error, like the position of the light, the background, or the sphere.  

But then after tweeking the position of things, I changed the dynamics around and saw some of the gumballs coming through the glass, which makes me think it's not a positioning issue.

So I hid the glass from the scene and rendered, and got the illumination I wanted.  But why oh why won't this thing work!? I think I'm going to have to hang this one up for now.  

Followed a super awesome tutorial to get this created

Added bamboo man to my office using camera calibration

Day Two Creation

Super pumped about Cinema 4D! Here is my first render.  Definitely followed a tutorial in making this, but loving learning what it can do!

Woohoo!