| | | Daniel Hirsmuller-Counts | | Desk Scene | | | Ideal Desk | |
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| | Inspiration
My original inspiration for this scene was to model my perfect desk. It was to originally be a roll-top desk with a built in computer. A pressure sensitive keyboard build into the top of the desk, level with the surface. A LCD monitor built into the back. Disk drives built into a drawer. The whole idea was that once the roll top was down, you could not tell that the computer was there at all.
I modeled the bottom half of the desk first, an realized that I liked how it looked, as a writing desk, so much that it was even more ideal with a more simple design.
I looked for inspiration for the other objects in my scene mostly from things I have or want to have. I added photos I took for my APCG 44 class and gave them white core mate-board, something I wish we were doing in 44. Sadly we have no printers to print with, so we have nothing to put in mate-board. The book shelf is a very nice piece of furniture that I inherited from my Grandmother. Even the wine glass is not simply an excuse for glass in the scene, but instead a glass from a set my parents own which I am quite fond of. I like it because of its purple tint which catches the light quite nicely.
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| | | Objects | Desk | Daniel | | | Book Shelf | Daniel | | | Books (one object) | Daniel | | | Glass | Daniel | | | Pencil | Daniel | | | Photo 1 | Daniel | | | Photo 2 | Daniel | | Lamp | Daniel | | | Room | Daniel | | | | | | Images | Books | Daniel | | | Side Book | Daniel | | | Clip Map of Books | Daniel | | | Fritos | Daniel | | | Teapot | Daniel | | | | | | Textures | http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/~pbourke/texture |
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| | Problems and Solutions
I think that my main problem with this assignment was time. A few of the objects I modeled, I was modeling based on real life objects and I spent too much time getting them to look “perfect” and to match the real object too well.
The bookshelf was a major problem. After I had finished modeling it to exacting detail, I realized that I needed things to put on the shelfs. I then spent a large chunk of time taking photos of the books on the shelfs and using those pictures to create a texture and clip map to make one long box look like a bunch of books. (Warning clip maps have nasty side effects use them with caution.)
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| | References
The tutorial at: http://www.liquid-arts.de/techniques.htm really helped me with what need to be done for good glass texturing, although I didn't use all the techniques mentioned in it.
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