For the past few days, while other kids in the class were at a SkillsUSA competition, I have been working on a basic little scene with 5 models.
The first model I worked on has to be my favorite. When I first started the assignment, I wanted to make a lamp for whatever reason, just for practice. While making this, I decided I wanted to make a little scene on a round table with items including the table being apart of my 5 needed models. For modelling the lamp itself, the only issue I ran into was getting the lighting to look good with the lampshade, which luckily I was able to do in the end.
Next, I modelled the table. This one was the easiest to make out of all the objects. the table was made very simple, since all that would be seen is the top, and maybe a little of the legs. With that, I still did model the table based off of a reference of a similar design, so a table like this would in fact stand and work in real life.
When that was done, I took a quick little break to texture the objects I have created so far.
After that, I made a glass of water. This one was really easy, only being cylinder in a cylinder. The only hard part in making this model was being able to see it. Since it was made out of glass, it often showed up as invisible in the Maya render view.
Next was making book models. This one also wasn’t hard, just a smoothed out square with subdivisions and extrusions. What was hard was the texture, since I decided to make a bunch of tiny lines in a texture to represent pages.
Finally was the pencil. This one was also one of my favorites. I used an actual pencil I had on me to base the model off of. I feel like I went a bit too intense on the detail, especially with the metal, but at that moment in time I just really wanted to model a pencil.
Then after I was done with the models, I rendered it! There’s still improvements to be made, but I think it came out pretty well in the end.
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