Tutorials and support materials for making a chess set.

Making a Pawn Chess Piece – Extruding and Scaling a Cylinder

• image file – pawn3a.png
• finished model – pawnTut17.blend

Making A Bishop Chess Piece Using the Boolean Modifier

 

• image file – bishop1.png
• bishop before Boolean modifier – bishopTut11.blend
• finished model – bishopTut20.blend

 

Making a Knight Chess Piece Part 1 Making the Horse’s Head

Knight Files

• image file – chess-pieces.jpg
• Plinth (base) file – plinth.blend
• 2D outline file – knigtTut4.blend
• 2D outline with quad faces – knigtSecondTut8.blend
• Finished model – knigtSecondTut4.blend
• image file (not used in this tutorial but can be used, set size of background image to 2.25) – knight1.png

Making a Knight Chess Piece Part 2 Joining the Head to the Base

 

Making A Rook (Castle) Chess Piece

 

• image file – rook1.png
• bishop before Boolean modifier – rookTut4.blend
• finished model – rookTut11.blend

 

 Making A Queen Chess Piece

• image file – queen1.png
• model extruded with just the top to complete – queenTut2.blend
• finished model – queenTut12b.blend

 

Making A King Chess Piece

• image file – king1.png
• model extruded with just the top to complete – kingTut3.blend
• finished model – kingTut19.blend

 

Making a Chessboard Using the Array Modifier and the Generated Marble Texture

finished model – chessTut9.blend

 

Using Drop to Ground to Place Pieces on the Board, Putting the Set Together

finished chess set – piatTut39.blend