Actually going to do some work now and make a...kettle?

 Hello friends,

Wow, it's been awhile. To be honest, I've felt vaguely overwhelmed by this project because a magic perfect item I was inspired about doing a good job with did not present itself. But then I remembered ipods, and after braving Facebook to get a broken one off marketplace I feel inspiration flowing through me. I mean I could just make a mousetrap which could be pretty cool but I am not super stoked feeling on it.

Anyways, I have been busy with other things and now I am READY. To watch this youtube tutorial thingy and make  a thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9FruWISjZE this is the tutorial we are following for last week's assignment. I was much too overwhelmed from making the first big project way too complicated. This guy has nice eyebrows and is not doing annoying youtuber things, so I will give him that.

So I copied the kettle profile picture off of this youtube video.  When I tried color masking the imported image (which I might've done wrong because he is using Rhino 7 and I have 8, or maybe because hes using a specific reference file I am not sure) it got all wonky so I just made the background image more transparent.

Somehow I got it centered. 

Sadly, while trying to build the wall of the kettle, the "scale it up while holding shift" gumball maneuver doesnt seem to work on my computer, either because it is a mac or because it's rhino 8 so I have to look it up. Ah I got it even though looking it up didn't help me, I just needed to rewatch him do it again,

Now I have it revolved and shaded, but for some reason it is lying down.

this man is now drinking his coffee to hide his laughter at my confusion

I am just going to leave it lying down since it is matching up with my underlay still. I can always rotate/mirror/whatever it later, but I think lining it back up would be harder than turning it later.

Everything seemed pretty straightforward for awhile. However, when I got to the part where I am shelling the spout I can't seem to make it hollow all the way down? Perhaps my curves weren't all joined before I rotated them? Honestly though, I'm kind of like... that's fine for now.

Now I have run into a weird problem where only part of the bottom of my lid is capped and therefore I can only fillet a quarter of the bottom rim. whut?

I did manage to get rid of that quarter cap but now....nothing is capped? I capped the whole thing and trimmed the new top cap away so that the nice curves are there back again, I certainly hope that this  doesn't mess up something terrible for me in the future.

Also despite that this inside curve does not want to fillet. I'm literally just going to leave it for now.

However, maybe leaving things is a good idea, as I did manage to go back and extract the surfaces of my kettle spout so that it isn't blocked. Go me.

Though honestly I think I am going to have to redo the whole pipe. When I try to boolean union it on to the kettle, the chunk i am attaching to it just ....vanishes?? Ugh.

I redid the pipe. I did not have the problems that I had last time, but when I tried to boolean union it onto the kettle it just.... has bad time exclamation points. I am unimpressed. They are even there when I render it. I am unimpressed. The internet says I can select and delete them like text but I am not so sure about that. Oh wait I did it just took time.

There's something about this work being on the computer that makes me extremely easily distractible. It's like my brain is a magnet that is repelling working on this. Not that I am actually doing anything.

Since they cant union I can't fillet these curves. I am also noticing that the surface of the kettle has a weird circle thing where maybe the previous pipe was? but why would that effect anything?? I am so done with this, however I have to do it today because I wasted the last few days working and I am worried that I will not finish my other work if I can't finish this thing. There's just so much I have to do in general that I am stressed that I will not get to do the schoolwork stuff I actually want to. I'm just going to keep going even if this is having a stupid boolean time, and even if I am pretty sure the perspective view is like the same to navigate as my confusing nightmares.

I am now onto the second video, which I am glad appears to be half as long. 

I thought the handle was good, but honestly it just started turning into a giant mobius strip and I am not into that at all. I want to die.

It's like, the edge is one thing. but then i go to blend the surfaces and it's like no, I am not one thing. I am a half! and you can drag those control points around as much as you like but that isn't going to help you at all. 

Eventually I was able to chain the two halves of the stupid half one.

I started the second handle tutorial, but after at least 20 minutes of trying to make things rotate properly I gave up. I will just watch this. It is 11:08 right now and I need to finish this tonight, then I will only have 5 more days to do everything that I have to do before I have to go back to school again and I am freaking out. Is this taking everyone else as long? I feel like I've been working on this all day.

The join naked edges thing could be useful though. Maybe it'll help me out with my suspicious spout? Or something. I'm not sure but I am making a note of it for later.

OH NOW buddy is like "we have a new tool which makes this much much easier" oh man. Glad I didn't waste any more time trying to rotate those handle bits. That was was nice. A much friendlier way to do that.

I like the shiny shiny part

I have no idea what this NURB thing is (or if it even did anything), but it sounds hilarious

This guy is such a liar. "Select the metal part boolean difference now select our new polysurface as a cutting tool and it makes a cut line" no it doesn't. I mean I'm sure it does but it isn't for me. Why. I just want to walk my dog and go to bed.  It is giving the the !'s of death.

I changed the layers of the parts and honestly? It's fine. It's good. It's alright.

It is 1:03am. I have now spent more time 1 on 1 with Daniel than anyone else in recent memory and I feel like I have an unhealthy parasocial relationship with him. I would not be surprised if he is telling me cryptic riddles in my dreams tonight (I certainly hope not)