A 3D Chessboard

Ooooh! Above is my first 3D art, like...ever! :-) A couple rigorous days of Blender tutorials, and I was able to construct a 3D chessboard. Nifty! It was blood, sweat and tears though, since my expertise at Blender is still at about 2% (heh), I had to make each individual square almost completely manually. But I did learn a good deal about duplication and relocation to do it. I snagged the marble textures off Google.

I hope to one day be able to make this image in about 4 minutes. It seems to be a step above trivial.

Still, very proud. :-)

PS - I can't wait until I learn how to specify the absolute rotation of an object.