Long Lost Rendering!

I was digging about the depths of my hard drive, and I came across this,one of my first complete 3D models ever made. Man, do I sure miss watching The Venture Bros. It's all King of the Hill and Family Guy, now. And it makes me a saaaaaaaaad 3D artist. :(

Final Renderings

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These are a couple of other renderings that were a part of my final critique, along with the Nintendo games & controllers, and the container.

Containment Unit: Haulers and Yards

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After working on the containers, I began to build other things that may relate to it: container loaders, storage yards, & such. The textures used are either preloaded with Strata 3D CX, open license images, or made from scratch in Photoshop.

 

Containment Unit-rendering photographs

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On top of rendering homemade textures, I also experimented with using actual photographs of metal containers and using photoshop to create a greyscale texture maps to give the ribbed texture more pronounced depth and to be able to work with a changing light source

I also put my photoshop generated colour map to see how well it stacked up (lame pun) against the photograph maps.

The photographs used in this image are open license.

Containment Unit-flat texture>bump maps>model

This post will show my process in creating a texture and applying it to a 3D model. The object which I will render is a simple one, that I have been focusing and experimenting on for awhile-metal containers. After looking up some for a good idea of how they look, (you wouldn't believe the small but important details you would miss just working from your head) I went into Photoshop and created an image map:

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Afterward, I created a texture map, which uses greyscale values to determine how deep areas rise and fall, and apply the appropriate shadows when rendered:

Finally, I create a primitive rectangular prism, and apply both the colour map and texture map in Strata 3D CX, and rendered it:

Although the top and ends feature the broad side's mapping, the focus of this was simply in one area.

Class Project--Final

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This is the rendering of the final project in my basic CGI class. I constructed these to real scale, as to maintain proportions, and used the actual objects brought to class to measure. The models were constructed and rendered in Strata 3D CX .