Thursday, 31 January 2008

fruits of labour

Well this is my attempt at two apples at a rather odd shaped pear. The apple on the right is a perfectly formed granny smith grown in a particularly nice part of France, especially for a fruit and vegetable competition. The apple on the left is of the ‘Essex Chris Cook’ free range variety, grown for nothing more than the purpose of feeding me, however, it is of such quality that I am now considering letting it grace the shelves of Tesco, or if it is lucky, Morrisons.

All these fruits were created from spheres that were converted to editable poly’s, the vertices were then manipulated with soft selection activated to deform the original sphere and a mesh smooth was the applied to the poly. To finish it off with a material, a green and brown 'noise' map was added to the ‘diffuse map’ section and a 'speckle' was added to the bump map.

first thoughts

Fun!
I am looking forward to this module. Being fairly confident in 3d max already, hopefully this module will kick me in to learning techniques that I should have attempted to learn a long time ago. t will also be good to learn the correct way of animating.

The biggest thing that may prove to be my downfall is that I have a tendency to strive for perfection in 3d max and I am in danger of spending too long on certain elements and running out of time. I will not do that! (We will see).