The nine square grid project ended up taking longer than I had initially thought it to be. mainly I struggled with rendering issues because I was unaware of the lighting being an issue with the Arnold renderer. I had lights set to 1 when they really should have been set to 10000! I also had a few hiccups with just modeling the cubes into how they’re depicted in the image above. Such as the first cube I was trying to shape into the stair like shape, turning it originally into an overlapping mess. When there were much easier solutions such as reducing the amount of vertexes and deleting any unused lines that I didn’t need.