A few weeks ago, I wanted to see how long it would take me to make a certain object in both of two different programs. I decided to model my brother's toy lightsaber.

The first program I did it in was Gmax and this was the result.

It turned out better than I expected seeing as I hadn't had a lot of experience in that program.

The second program was Blender and this was the result.

Now, if this picture looks better than the other one, as far as quality goes, it is because Blender has a built in renderer and Gmax doesn't. So I had to print the screen into paint and save it from there.

I can't remember, (although I could at the time) but I think it took three or four hours to make it in Gmax and only thirty minutes to an hour in Blender. A pretty big difference, mostly due to the fact that I don't have as much experience in Gmax.

I hope everybody had a great Christmas and new year.

I made this scene just over three years ago, back when I was just learning about 3D modeling. Back then I didn't know about Blender and I was using a program called Gmax. My brother helped me with this one (like most things back then) or it wouldn't have turned out nearly as good.

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