I have been on an Easter break now for two weeks and despite what that usually means, time to relax and enjoy lots of food and chocolate before going back to uni, I've actually been working quite a lot [still eating lots of food though of course]. I went home for a weekend and have been working at my job and the rest of the time I have been working on a portfolio project which I have been set by my tutor.
So in this project I've been asked to create an immovable prop based on the theme 'They Landed', which can be interpreted in any way.
It must also meet the following constraints:
- It must contain no more than 2500 polygons/5000 Tris
- Must use no more than a single 2048px texture [or 4 x 1024px textures]
- The scene must be no bigger than 5m x 5m
Some of the ideas which I thought of was something about aliens landing, the moon landings, aircraft landing on a carrier, D-Day landings. So I have decided to do the project based on the D-Day landings. The scene is of a machine gun from inside a German bunker looking out with the sky in view.
I have actually just finished this project, so I here a few screenshots that shows process of my modelling, right through to the finished thing.
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| Overview of the scene layout |
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| Blocked out scene view |
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| How the machine gun's barrel is modelled |
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| Machine gun added to the scene |
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| Final in software render |
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| Mental Ray render |
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| Diffuse textures used [4 x 1024px textures] |
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| Specular textures used [4 x 1024px textures] |
