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| | Inspiration
The inspiration for this piece came from doing the tutorial we had to do for the class. I was going to do the bevel tool and then I found out about the magical bevel tool and realized it was a great tool for organic objects. I knew I wanted to create organic creatures and do something outside. I tried to create a jellyfish and after making that I decided to create an underwater scene.
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| | | Objects | Fish | Ross | | | Sea Weed | Ross | | | Starfish | Ross | | | Sea Sponges | Ross | | | Jellyfish | Ross | | | Whales | Ross | | | | | Textures | All textures taken from 3d cafes free stuff section | http://www.3dcafe.com/asp/textures.asp | | | | | | Tutorials | Background color | http://pro.wanadoo.fr/benjamin.chape/tuts2.htm |
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| | Problems and Solutions
The biggest problem I had was figuring out how to get the water to look real. I was playing around with different lighting techniques to get the look of being underwater. I tried creating a waterplane that had a number of bump maps on it but I couldn't get it to look right. I realized that I could extend the spot light with the projection image of water and it would give the look of sun rays shining through water. I also had to play around with the fog in the background to make it look like objects were fading into the distance.
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