MP3 Player and Headphones
 

What's up everyone. I'm modeling my mp3 player and headphones to do a realistic piece, but i know its not there yet ;] What do you think so far, comments/critiques? Thanks.

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now im off to see AVP... for the awesome plot offcourse;)

very cool and very realistic looking, good work.

nice job but remember real things are not perfect, and thats looking a little a perfect to me, but thats ten times better than I can do. ( I'm a noob)

Thanks guys ;] gotahale u have a very good point, and i take that into account when i make other models, but im purposley making this one brand new looking and not worn because I want it to apear as if it was just off the production line. I plan to animate it like it was being advertised on tv for RCA ;] thanks

I don't agree....

well, if we would talk about a 2 year old mp3 player.....well yes than there not perfect anymore...
but these products are allways perfect!! wheter it is a mobile or digital camera...


....and I think the thing bahearn wants to do is a commurcial scene with the pefect lines with the perfect lightsetting as you will see the same thing in every magazine, tv, or every other commurcial spot...

btw nice scene allready...play around a bit more with lights cause that will make the scene! ;)

problem
 

Hey guys, making some progress with the textures. One problem I have is the wire renders out as jagged/not smooth. In the scne file it looks fine, and i have a high amount of cv's in the curve and have rebuilt the nurb surface above what would have smoothed it out. Does anyone know why maya renders it jagged? I'm just using maya software now w/ raytracing , no MR but that shouldnt be a problem. Thanks! Any other Comments/Critiques?

increase the tessaletion.in the shape node of the wire. the default is medium with 4.5 set for the UV division factor.
and u might want to check on smooth edge option also.
If u want there is even an advanced tab for more control.

hey that worked great, thanks ;] also brightened up the secene lights, any suggestions on the floor/groudn surface?

very nice but i think u need to put more details insted of textures, The play, stop... button does not look realistic

yep I agree!

yah the buttons are the last things im going to do, theyll a simple model but will need a good texture

Yup. Looks cool mate. Very realistic. Good work.

Thanks Pelra

btw ur icons from flcl right? i love that series

Cool mp3 m8. I can almost hear the music:)

It was. But I never saw it. I just picked it off the web. I changed it as you can see.

Thanks Frenzy. Peltra, yah its a really good anime series, u should try to watch it sometime, great soundtrack too.

i switched over to using fg, i like the results better. except those buttons still bug me, anyone have any suggestions, or on anything overall/what doesent look right.

Use a little brushed metal texture in photoshop. Create noise make sure monocromatic is on, and select gausien. then apply a motion blur, if you didn't now how to make it.

And I can't see the series due to that im in canada.

Can you post a wire?

worked out some textures n stuff. i modeled the button shapes instead of using a bump or displacment cause neither looked good. any suggestions on what needs work?

Hey Airhorn, i don't know how nit picky you are getting at this project, but generally don't the headphones have some kind of writing on them where the silver part is. I mean i could be wrong and i don't know how perfect you are trtying to make this but just thought i'd bring it up. Other then that it is looking great. I love the name on the memory card.

Looking good!!!
I actually have very similar headphones and my dont have any writing on them, its probably because there really cheap :D

The buttons still don't look right to me. Maybe a little too specaly? (Is that a word?) ;p