M02 - Modeling an environment

This week

This week we are going to make an environment. We had to consider a story behind the scene so here is my story.

My house

I tried to picture a bit how I want to have my house so I started to picture my room. I wanted a fireplace because of the warm feeling I get when I see a lit fireplace with the amazing sound the logs give when they are really dry. So my story for my environment is basically the story of me. Or at least how my living room would have been if I got everything the way I wanted. 

I live in the suburbs, with my wife and two kids. And we use this living room all the time. That is basically the story for my environment. 

Analyze the challenge and scope of the assignment

I first started looking trough my task and figured out all the things I had to make. We had to make at least 5 different objects of a similar style and use them to design the room. So that was my first objective, figuring out what I wanted to use in my room.

This is some sort of bench to have stuff on, and put stuff into.

I made several lamps to lighten the room.

A couch, need a place to sit.

What is a living room without a TV?

And something to put the TV on. 

Time planning

I Planned what I would do and when on Monday.

This week I actually managed to follow my schedule very well. There was some overtime on Tuesday and Wednesday because I was very afraid not to meet the deadline. But I managed to do everything and now I am writing the report before handing it in. 

Curves/Splines

I used Curves to make detail for one of my windows. Because I felt that it did not fit so many other places. Atleast with the design I was aiming for. But I really wanted an awesome window like that so, I figured the best place to put it, had to be where it would be nice to have it. 

 I made the curves like this.

And then I started tweeking the settings so that it would fit the way I wanted it to fit. 

The product

As always I want to show you the finished product. 

This is how it looks when you enter the room

This is how it looks from the couch and looking out in the room. 

 This is only a clay render of my room, because we are not going to texture it until next week. So next week you will see a much nicer room. It needs color, and i saddens me that I cant do that now :( But it is for the best to wait and see what our next assignment is before doing anything else to screw this up.

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David