| | | Jon Ballard | | Desk Scene | | | A Day Away...someday | |
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| | Inspiration
I wanted to create a scene that represented my frustrations with being cooped up inside when where I really want to be is outside. Everyday I find myself being stuck inside doing work. All the while the days pass into nights, and I find myself looking into them wondering where the days have gone.
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| | | Objects | Desk | Jon Ballard | | | Cup | Jon Ballard | | | Pencil | Jon Ballard | | | Candle | Jon Ballard | | | Room | Jon Ballard | | | Grass texture | Lightwave Preset | | | Wall textures | Jon Ballard | | | Dome Picture | lunarone 1024 |
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| | Problems and Solutions
This is a scene of a desk, with very few items to represent the absolute bordom I can get when there is such a wonderful world to enjoy just beyond the walls. None of the walls are touching eachother which I think helps to show the breaking down of the walls, metaphorically. I really like how moonlight looks when it pours through a window so I thought it would be really neat to represent that. It was a lot easier than I had anticipated to get the lights to look how I wanted them to. The biggest problems I had were with the candle, I started to get a little too intricate on the detail of it, then I started to realize that from far away the tiny details I was doing just wouldn’t really show up too well, so I got rid of those, and just made the basic shape of the candle. I played mostly with textures, I really wanted to figure out how to get those down. The biggest problem that I had was with water, I wanted to put an enormous ocean underneath the room, and have it all floating on water, but I could never get something that I really liked, the tutorials I had gone through just didn’t look right to me, so I decided to scratch that idea, and I just went with a basic grass texture preset from lightwave. There weren’t really a whole lot of problems, nothing major, just the basic getting to know a new program hold-ups here and there.
References
Lunarone 1024- http://www.incompetech.com/gallimaufry/pictures/2003march/lunarone1024.jpg | |
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