CSCI 140 Final Gallery

3-D Computer Modeling 
CSCI 140 Spring 2003

Dickerson, Jimmy

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Jimmy DickersonFinal Scene
March Madness
 
Inspiration/Story

When I was watching all the NCAA basketball games in March, I got the idea to produce a basketball court and make it look like a real court.  I wanted to include all the reflections of the floor, the rim and backboard to resemble a real life one and just overall produce a basketball scene that people have seen before.
 
 
 
Objects:FloorJimmy
 RimJimmy
 NetJimmy
 BleachersJimmy
 BackboardJimmy
 WallsJimmy
 Outline of FloorJimmy
   
Textures:LightWoodLightwave
 Design for wallshttp://images.google.com/imgres? imgurl=www.jamnart.com /Custom-Work/titan-basketball- lightning-.jpg& imgrefurl= http://www.jamnart.com/ services.htm&h=264&w=300 &prev= /images%3Fq%3Dbasketball%2Bdesigns %26svnum%3D10 %26hl%3Den %26lr%3D %26ie%3DUTF-8 %26oe%3DUTF-8
 Colors for floorLightwave
 
Problems and Solutions:

A problem I had to begin this project is how to make the floor resemble a real floor, with the glossiness and the reflection it has.  After messing around with the lighting and different camera angles, I finally found the scenes that made the floor shine great.  Another problem I encountered was designing the floor.  I was going to use an image form the internet and place it on the floor and just make it shinny, but I though that would be to easy, so I decided to make my own floor design.  It was tough because I had to stack all the pieces of the floor on one another and if I moved one of them, I moved them all, but after a while I got the hang of it and ended up with a good product.  I really enjoyed this project because I had a lot of free time at home and built all my objects on one night and allowed me to get ahead of the project and worry about the lighting and renderings.

References:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/brizon/ringtutorial/
http://www.basketballproducts.com/backboards/cc1.htm
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl= www.jamnart.com/Custom-Work/titan-basketball-lightning-.jpg&imgrefurl= http://www.jamnart.com/services.htm&h=264&w=300&prev= /images%3Fq%3Dbasketball%2Bdesigns%26svnum%3D10%26hl %3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8