Clarke Steinback Ph.D. 3D Computer Modeling APCG 330 Spring 2006 C.R.A.M.

2006 Spring ->3D Computer Modeling ->Galleries ->Group Gallery ->C.R.A.M. Chris Kincanon   Group Scene Ryan Fitzpatrick     Andrew Holifield     Mike Sakuma       From the Shadows I See   Inspiration The inspiration for this project came from two sources, thriller movies, and cat’s eyes.  It seemed too clichéd to use a bathroom scene from psycho, so it moved to the feeling that you get when watching thrillers and horror flicks, that hair-raising sense that you’re being watched.  This was put into a literal sense with eyes peering through the darkness at a person watching television.  The eyes are modeled like cat’s eyes, which we chose for their peculiar reflectivity in low light.  Objects Basement Andrew Holifield   Bookshelf Chris Kincanon   Can Ryan Fitzpatric   Cat Eyes Mike Sakuma   Coffee Table Ryan Fitzpatric   Couch Andrew Holifield   Fish Bowl Chris Kincanon   Magazine Ryan Fitzpatric   Remote Ryan Fitzpatric   Television Mike Sakuma Textures Basement Walls Modified Lightwave Rock   Basement Wood Andrew Holifield   Book 1 Modified Lightwave Rusted Copper   Book 2 Modified Lightwave Cloth   Book 3 Modified Lightwave Leather   Book 4 Modified Lightwave Gold   Book 5 Modified Lightwave Sandpaper   Book 6 Modified Lightwave Worn Velvet   Bookshelf Wood 3Dcafe.com   Coke Can http://files1.turbosquid.com/Preview/ Content_on_1_11_2004_07_41_31/ Coca-Cola_logo4Can.jpge 8fba585-1fa2-4d09-9427-8ad4dd63a091.jpg Large.jpg   Coke Can Top http://intvfunhouse.com/ oddsnends/drpepper/ astrosmash-can-ver1-top.jpg   Cat Eyes Lightwave Properties   Coffee Table Modified Lightwave Wood Texture   Couch Modified Lightwave Leather Texture   Fish Bowl Glass Lightwave Properties   Fish Bowl Glass Air Lightwave Properties   Fish Bowl Water Lightwave Properties   Fish Lightwave Properties   Magazine http://www.maxforcetms.com/ images/article/ popular_science_200412.jpg   Remote Lightwave Properties   Television Mike Sakuma Problems and Solutions One major problem we ran into was the poly count on the bookshelf items.  We wanted to really give the books a life like feel to them so we tried to give them rounded edges and such.  We produced this by tripling the covers then sub-patching them.  This created a book with a decent amount of polygons to it.  When stacking the books in the shelf I noticed a large amount of slowdown to the modeler and then once all of the books were on the shelf the modeler ran more like a slideshow.  The overall final product came to around 90,000 polygons with the bookcase and all the books in place.  This looked really good but absolutely killed render time.  The solution to this problem was to simply lower the poly count on the books that populated the shelf by un-sub-patching and merging many of the polygons.  This lowered the overall effect of the bookshelf but made the room render in a more reasonable amount of time. Another major problem I ran into was adding bubbles to the fish bowl that populates the table.  I spent a bit of time trying to get the glass then the water then the bubble to render correctly.  The problem with the bubbles is that they barely showed up in the image and it seemed that no matter how much I played with the settings I could not get anything other then the shine from the bubble to be visible.  The solution to this was to simply skip the idea of bubbles.  Our group decided that bubbles in the fish bowl would just be too much detail for something that would be hard to see at the distance the camera was going to be from the bowl anyways. Trying to get the couch to have a realistic and organic feel was very difficult.  Doing numerous Boolean adds and subtracts did not yield the effect we were looking for.  Finally I tried the subpatch tool, this required tripling the model to allow the sub-patch to work correctly.  This added numerous polygons to the model and increased render time, but in the end it gave us a much better looking product.   When applying the cylindrical texture for the coke can there was a seam on one side.  No matter how we tried altering the texture position and size, there would always be a repeated pattern on one edge.  We solved this by simply facing the seam away from the camera during the final render.   There were a few objects that did not make the cut.  There was an ashtray that was going to have smoke spiraling up, but this effect could not be done in the time we had.  There were a few other objects such as a basket ball, a plant and a trash can that would have either made the scene too cluttered or were not complete in time to make the final rendering. Time Frame Planning 10hrs   Modeling 25hrs   Texturing 10hrs   Lighting/Rendering 20hrs References            None 2006 Spring Concept Design and Storyboarding Video Game Design 3D Computer Modeling Assignments Calendar Gradebook Syllabus Tutorials Galleries Desk Gallery Final Gallery Group Gallery Portfolio Video Game Project Graduation 2006

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