Scholars Mate
This project is one of my earliest, inspired by a chess set my parents gave me. It was my first time using real photographs as both textures and reference, which shows how early it was in my 3D art journey—about a year and a half in. While I don’t think it looks amazing, I’ve tried not to change it too much, as I want to keep it as a reminder of how far I’ve come.
I like to showcase it occasionally because the texture on the chess pieces was my first attempt at creating a procedural wood texture in Blender.
