My First-Ever 3D Creation

Alright so school's been in session just over a week now, and my first assignment after just one class of 3D modeling and Texturing was to make a production-level prop from Jimmy Neutron. Like everyone else in the class this is the very first digital 3D class I've ever taken, and we were given one week to make the model after just a single lecture's instruction. WHAT?!

Then he told us to allow 15 hours to complete the model, or as many as 24 hours all-told. WHAT?!

Then he said that each assignment would be this intense every week. Excuse me...

WHAT?!

Well, anyway, I worked on it and got it done in an apparently-blazing 11 hours. I know it doesn't look like much without colors or anything, but just picture making something this in clay to the level of refinement and detail as this, and you've got a good measure for how painstaking it was and how long it took.

Complaints aside, I'm extremely proud of my first-ever model. It's ridiculously more impressive than it would have been at another school that would have let me take baby steps rather than throw me in the deep end like UTD did.