{"id":11903,"date":"2026-01-02T21:38:47","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T02:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=11903"},"modified":"2026-01-24T12:52:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T17:52:35","slug":"family-blender-challenge-chess-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=11903","title":{"rendered":"Family Blender Challenge &#8211; Chess Set"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scott and I were learning enough Blender to modify a mount for the Ranger, and Anya had randomly borrowed a &#8220;Blender for Dummies&#8221; book from the library. As we&#8217;ve been learning more about Blender, I came across a video series showing how to create chess pieces as a way of learning the program. Which has sparked the family blender challenge &#8212; everyone is creating their own chess set. Anya spent some of her holiday break translating one of her wood carvings into a model to use as the pawns &#8230; now Scott and I are behind! I think I&#8217;ll make a cat themed set &#8230; I just need to learn how to sculpt in Blender since the python API interface only seems to create basic shapes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott and I were learning enough Blender to modify a mount for the Ranger, and Anya had randomly borrowed a &#8220;Blender for Dummies&#8221; book from the library. As we&#8217;ve been learning more about Blender, I came across a video series showing how to create chess pieces as a way of learning the program. Which has &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2163],"tags":[2166,243,1106,2158,51,2164],"class_list":["post-11903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blender-3d-printing","tag-3d-modeling","tag-3d-printing","tag-art","tag-blender","tag-crafts","tag-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11904,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11903\/revisions\/11904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}