Modeling an 80s Joystick

Today, I’ve been learning how to model an 80s joystick with Blender. There were many steps, involving hours of trial and error, so it’s hard for me to document all of them here.

At a high level, I downloaded reference images from the internet, set them up in Blender, aligned the basic forms with the pictures, and modeled the joystick. Finally, I rendered a short animation of the object.

I must say that modeling this first object wasn’t easy, but I stuck with it until it was finished—at least the first version. There are still many improvements to make, but here it is!

Here's what it looks like: