Intro to 3D - Final Render

Today I finished the last part of my vending machine and rendered it in Marmoset. I'm very happy with how it turned out and felt that I learnt a lot from this project. 

Intro to 3D - Base texture colours

Today I started texturing my vending machine. At the moment I'm only doing base colours on the diffuse map just to make sure I have a colour scheme that works and I like. 

CDDA - Hammerpick beauty shot

Today I finished my beauty shot of my prop, the hammer pick. It was quite fun to do and taught me a lit about metal textures, specifically gold, and photo overlays. I ended up making the gold quite dirty because I didn't really like how it looked when it was clean. 

CDDA - Photo Manipulation

So today I did a photo manipulation to give an example of some of the things that might go in my environment. It was quite a new experience to me which I found tricky at first, taking me a long time to put my first item into the environment and feeling that it didn't really fit. Once I started adding light and shadows to the objects they began to sit a lot better in the environment. Also changing the hue to a more orange colour helped them fit in too. I think that I may do something along this line of track when drawing my final environment to sketch over as it could be really useful for getting perspective and shapes right. Overall I enjoyed making this and think it's a viable way of developing ideas for environments.