Hello folks! Let's build a tournament chessboard with procedural wooden textures, step by step, with keyboard shortcuts shown on screen. We can use these models to build a synthetic dataset of chessboard images from training ML models, which works surprisingly well!

For those who know more about Blender, any reason not to use sub-divide over loop cut? Does the topology break?

In the next video, we'll design the pieces from the same Staunton chessboard set!

00:00 - Intro
00:37 - Reference Images
03:04 - Create Chessboard Mesh
05:18 - Basic Colors
06:33 - Tip: Camera WASD
06:59 - Tip: Apply Transforms
07:17 - Procedural Wood Texture
11:26 - Outro

I'm still new to Blender so I'd love to hear about any suggestions you may have.
Thanks for watching and Cheers!