BC1-1908 Homework – Ben Reichel

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August 3, 2019 at 8:51 pm #10521
Ben Reichel
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I’m doing the chest. Probably biting off more than I can chew for a single week but I wanted to challenge myself. I’ve watched the chest video and I was already planning on going through it again to do the model so this was perfect timing.
August 3, 2019 at 8:52 pm #49800
Aaron Rudderham
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Good start man, just a reminder that the deadline for this week is Sunday at midnight so I’m looking forward what you do until then!
August 3, 2019 at 9:07 pm #49801
Ben Reichel
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I seem to be having issues with the knife tool. When I try cutting the extra edges it seems to be creating two vertices next to each other. I tried merging them by distance but they don’t seem to be merging. Anyone else run into this?
August 3, 2019 at 9:12 pm #49802
Greg McKim
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@notcastanza Sort of, I was looking for the old remove doubles command and noticed they replaced it with Mesh -> Cleanup -> Merge by distance. You can adjust the distance default is pretty low like 0.001. I was using 0.01
August 3, 2019 at 9:46 pm #49803
spikeyxxx
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@notcastanza If you click in the ‘middle’ of a face, when using the knife tool it creates a vertex. You can also use Alt M merge at center or at first or last or….
August 3, 2019 at 9:51 pm #49804
Ben Reichel
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Thanks, expanding the merge distance helped. I also figured out that if I hold ctrl it will snap to the edge. Not necessarily where I wanted it but then I could slide the vertices to where I wanted them.
August 3, 2019 at 10:21 pm #49805
Ben Reichel
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Wow, these little dents and details are a bit tedious. I do like how it looks
August 4, 2019 at 9:23 am #49806
Erik Sharp
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@notcastanza I know what you mean. I imagine you are probably doing the wood splits right about now.
August 4, 2019 at 10:08 pm #49807
Ben Reichel
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WEEK 1 HOMEWORK SUBMISSION

I think I have the model finished. I wanted to add a padlock type lock to it but I didn’t have enough time.
August 4, 2019 at 11:26 pm #49808
Matthew Ullrey
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Nice cracks and crevices in the wood planks. This is going to look spectacular with the texturing.
August 5, 2019 at 12:59 pm #49809
Kent Trammell
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@notcastanza Nice to see you in class again, Ben!

Wow, these little dents and details are a bit tedious. I do like how it looks

They certainly are tedious. Which is party what inspired me to share object data between planks, saving detailing time.

I’m glad you made it made it through the tedious task because your final chest turned out great. My only note (super tiny) is that some planks pieces appear to have their normals reversed. I ran into this problem myself in the course. A simple solution is select all objects in object mode, tab into edit mode, select all mesh components, and hit SHIFT + N to recalculate the normals.

That’s such a tiny thing that I don’t count it against your grade. You’ve earned an A from me 👏
August 5, 2019 at 3:41 pm #49810
silentheart00
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@notcastanza Good effort! I was just about to comment on the normals of the planks, but Kent beat me to it!
August 11, 2019 at 5:25 pm #49811
Ben Reichel
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Week 2 Submission – Texture/Shading

I had a heck of a time getting the dirty vertex to bake only to figure out that I missed the Vertex Input node. Failure is learning, right? I won’t forget so easily next time.

For the base I duplicated some planks, copied the material and added a hue-saturation node to make the wood look more worn.

Rendered in Cycles
August 11, 2019 at 5:47 pm #49812
smurfmier1985
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@notcastanza hi Ben the painting looks great! Your picture is a bit dark though so it’s hard to see all that awesomeness. Next week when you do your final render for the last homework assignment you should crank up those light so we can all enjoy this glorious chest of yours 😊👍🏻
August 11, 2019 at 6:19 pm #49813
Ben Reichel
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@smurfmier1985 I brightened it up with Photoshop. I’ll work on properly lighting it for week 3.
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