Week 16 – FMP

This week was full steam ahead to get the girly diorama closer to completion.

This started with making some plants for the plant pots. one plant I made was a geranium, I made this by photo bashing images together to get a leaf and flower combination I liked. I think this works pretty well given its simplicity and in the scene it works well. One thing I would like to do it to create different coloured versions of it. and it would have been nice to sculpt and bake it down but I just did not have the time too.

The second plant was a fox glove. The issue I came across with this is that I couldn’t make it using a alpha planes as I normally would so I took the time to model the flowers using a simple four sided cylinder. I think it looks really good even though it was hand painted for the texture. However I do think it could have been optimised better.

Next was a medium level prop of the table and chairs. I wanted to create some quaint but simple iron style furniture and so this is the low poly models for them. I wish I had more time to make them a bit more elaborate but given the time I think they are effective and work within the scene to add some scale. 

This is the point in which the scene is at in 3DS Max but within engine it looks more filled out but I think the changes I did make this week really helped to fill it out. 

The other item I worked on was the telescope. I finished modelling it and started to unwrap it which became quite time consuming but I think it looks pretty good and close to the reference I had. Unfortunately there were some details I had to leave off due to time and poly constraints but in the future I would really like to create a really detailed high poly and bake all those details down.

reference: F1 telescopes (2018). [image] Available at: https://www.f1telescopes.co.uk/shop/telescopes/skywatcher-telescopes/skywatcher-startravel/sky-watcher-startravel-150-eq5-refractor-telescope/ [Accessed 12 May 2018].