Book shelf in Blub shape
Modeling:
Take a ‘Circle’ by clicking ‘Shift+A’. Change Vertices from 32 to 64.
![](https://i0.wp.com/manandari.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Bulb-book-shelf_Blender_Manandari.com_1-1.jpg?resize=688%2C387&ssl=1)
Select all vertices and rotate on the y-axis.
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Move on the z-axis.
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Select these vertices and tick to ‘Proportional Editing’.
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Move on the z-axis and bring to the bulb shape.
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Untick to ‘Proportional Editing’. Select these vertices and scale them on the y-axis shown in the images.
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Select the bottom vertices, and click on ‘S’. Then click ‘Z’ holding the ‘Shift’ key. The vertices curve becomes a straight line.
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Duplicate this using ‘Shift+D’.
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Change their names to Back and Frame. Hide the frame by clicking the ‘H’ key.
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Select Back. Click ‘Ctrl+F’, and click on the ‘Grid Fill’.
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Change the ‘Span’ and ‘offset’ values till get a good mesh.
![](https://i0.wp.com/manandari.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Bulb-book-shelf_Blender_Manandari.com_15-1.jpg?resize=688%2C387&ssl=1)
Go to ‘Modifiers’, add the ‘Solidify’ modifier.
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Increase the ‘Thickness’ value.
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Unhide the frame by clicking the eye symbol. Select all vertices.
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Extrude the vertices by clicking the ‘E’ key on the x-axis.
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Select these vertices shown in the image, and duplicate them. Click on the ‘P’ key to separate the vertices.
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Vertices are separated by the name of Frame.001.
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Select the vertices both sides, and click the ‘F’ key to fill the gap with the face.
Note: Before using the ‘F’ key, you have to activate the default Blender ‘F2 add-on’. Go to ‘Edit’ menu, click ‘Preferences’, click ‘add-on’, search for ‘F2’ and Tick to F2 add-on.
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Fill the gaps between the remaining vertices as shown in the image.
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Add the ‘Solidify’ modifier to the objects. Increase the thickness.
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There is a mesh problem. There are reverse faces.
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To check the faces, Tick to ‘Face Orientation’.
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Click the ‘Tab’ key. Select all vertices. Click the ‘Shift+N’ for ‘Recalculate Normals’
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Untick to ‘Face Orientation’.
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Add the ‘Bevel’ modifier.
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Change the ‘Amount and Segments’ values in the ‘Bevel’ modifier. Click on the ‘Shade Smooth’.
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Select the edges as shown in the image and move on the x-axis.
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Add the ‘Bevel’ modifier. Change the ‘Amount and Segments’ values in the ‘Bevel’ modifier. Click on the ‘Shade Smooth’.
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Add a plane. In ‘Edit Mode’, scale and select the edge which is behind the book shelf and ‘Extrude’ on the z-axis.
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Lighting settings:
Click on the ‘Render Preview’. Go to the ‘World Properties’. Change the color from gray to white.
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Render settings:
Go to the ‘Render Properties’. Select ‘Cycles’ in the ‘Render Engine’ and ‘GPU Compute’ in the Device.
Note: If you don’t have ‘GPU’, you can run on ‘CPU’.
In the ‘Render’, you can change the ‘Max Samples’. And tick to ‘Denoise’.
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Go to the ‘Color Management’. Select the ‘Filmic’ in the ‘View Transform’ and ‘Very High Contrast’ in the ‘Look’.
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Add the materials to the objects that you want.
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Add the ‘Camera’. Click on the ‘0’ on ‘Numpad’ to see through the ‘Camera’.
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Go to the ‘View’. In the ‘View Lock’, tick to the ‘Camera to View’. Adjust the scene in the camera view how you want.
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Go to the ‘Render’ menu, click on the ‘Render Image’. After rendering is completed and save the image where you want.
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Final Output:
Some books are added to the scene.
![](https://i0.wp.com/manandari.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Bulb-book-shelf_Blender_Manandari.com_Render_front.jpg?resize=688%2C387&ssl=1)
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Very nice. Thanks for sharing
welcome
-Padmasri