Hard Surface Modeling Techniques Practice

Practice Car Project

For our practice hard-surface modeling project, we were to make a sports car.  I ended up running into many problems so the image above is the result of a frustrating fourth try.  Since I didn't feel like finishing the entire project for the fourth time, I decided to use my creativity and come up with a solution.  Solution: Make a dump and an old car.  So that's what I did and this is what happened...

Hard Surface Modeling

Hard surface objects are anything man-made or constructed (AKA have hard surfaces).  They do not naturally exist in nature like organic models do.  Some examples are cars, robots, trains, and many other objects.  Hard surface modeling is important because, to be able to model anything that you would see with a hard surface in real life, you need to understand how to create it and what exactly it is made up of.  My reference photos for my hard surface modeling project are below:

Food Project: Challenges

My biggest challenge while making my food project was all the little details.  "Little Details" as in making sure everything is up to my level of perfection.  All the textures, making sure the objects look realistic, having everything I want in the composition... and many more.  Something else that added into the challenge was that I started late.  I had to wait for the donut project to render and then Blender at home did not work.  Plus, my orange juice glass did not want to fill for about three classes straight. (-_-) But!  Thankfully, I overcame all of these problems and challenges and I can now happily say.... I'M FINISHED!! :D

Food Project: COMPLETED

The Diner

Please excuse the white dots... I tried to make them go away but they just wouldn't.

Donut Project: COMPLETED

Overcoming Challenges: Donut Project

     Every artist runs into challenges while making their masterpiece.  For the donut project, I ran into a few.  The first one, the plates.  When I created the plate, I must have messed up joining the center somehow.  In object mode the plates looked fine, but when I rendered I noticed holes in the center of all of them.  Of course this was very devastating considering I had finished everything and was ready to render.  Instead of remaking my plates, I rearranged my items in the composition to cover these holes.  I overcame the plate mishap by rearranging the items in the picture.  The second challenge was something I could not control--the lag.  Since I had a lot of items and my items had a lot of details, my computer was moving very slowly.  This was very frustrating when I was trying to rearrange items and move my camera (VERY VERY FRUSTRATING).  I only overcame this problem with patience and sheer willpower.  Those are some of the challenges I overcame while making my donut composition.