Clarke Steinback Ph.D. 3D Computer Modeling APCG 330 Spring 2007 Shenanigans Inc

2007 Spring ->3D Computer Modeling ->Galleries ->Group Gallery ->Shenanigans Inc Wes Newell   Group Scene David Winston     Brandon Lester     Dan McGuire       Bee   Inspiration   We wanted to be as creative as possible with our scene. We wanted to portray a small piece of a futuristic world were machines have learned to live off of themselves using the power of the sun. Mechanical flowers take in energy from the sun and give this energy to any robotic insects that need it. In our case the insect is a bee. The process of energy exchange was meant to resemble that of a bee gathering pollen from a flower. The female power outlet is located were there would be pollen on a real flower. The male prongs on the bee remove energy from these outlets on the flower. Objects Bee Head Wes   Bee Torso Brandon/Wes   Bee Wings Dan   Bee Rear Brandon/Wes   Bee Legs/Insides Brandon   Flower Pedals Dan   Flower Stem Wes   Flower Middle Dan/Brandon   Background David   HDRI Lighting David   Rendering David Textures Solarpanel.jpg Dan   Building_probe.hdri http://www.debevec.org/Probes/   Bee on yellow flower.jpg http://www.ravensbourneforestchalets.com.au/ Bee on yellow flower, resize.jpg   Clouds24.jpg http://www.carlwozniak.com/ clouds/ Graphics/New Pix/clouds24.jpg   Weightmap.jpg Brandon Problems and Solutions We ran into major problems with the boolean operations tool. When we attempted to subtract sections from the exoskeleton it caused major problems with the structure of the polygons were the subtraction took place. Many vertices were not attached and in some cases even moved away from the object when it shouldn't have. To fix this we basically went in and re-welded every point were there was a subtraction and moved the skewed vertices back to the intended locations. We had a little bit of trouble making the bee's head look like it was from a bee and not from a wasp. This issue also affected some of the torso and rear end. To fix this we did some bending and modifying of pieces of the bee to make it look more like a bee. We had troubles finding an HDR image that would make the scene look the best. With some HDR images the refection on the bee looked weak but the background look good, and with some the reflection looked great but the background looked bad. We found the HDR image that we used in our final render just by testing as many images as we could find until we found the right one. Time Frame Bee Head 2 hours   Bee Torso 2 hour   Bee Legs 3 hours   Bee Wings 3 hours   Rear End 4 hours   Flower 6 hours   HDRI Lighting 11 hours   Composition 3 hours   Total 34+ hours References HDRI Tutorial     http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/ ~ranger/ 2007_Spring/ 3D_Computer_Modeling/ details/ Group_Project.html Bee     Living bee reference 2007 Spring Concept Design and Storyboarding 3D Computer Modeling Assignments Calendar Gradebook Syllabus Tutorials Galleries Desk Gallery Group Gallery Video Game Development Portfolio Video Game Project

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