Tournament #3 - Vectorman VS Lauriepriest - Round1
 

Both of you have until the 7th to finish your model for the first round. The first round is model your desktop! Have a great battle!

DO NOT VOTE UNTIL BOTH FINALS ARE IN OR WHEN TIME IS UP

Ladder will be up shortly

wOOt i am gonna start as soon as i finish this quick revolve tut

Okay, here is my desk, and one pen that i made. The red one unfortunately was made on the 30th, so i must remake it from scratch in order for it to be leagal. Not a problem tho, since this one has a pretty heavy mesh and wasn't fully completed. Please excuse the texture on the desk too. Its 4:00am, so i will goto sleep now, i just wanted to be the first one to get you guys going. Now MOVE soldiers.

Oh and Good Luck laurie, i think either of us could win this, its about what WE put into it. M is pretty good at pairing people.

Coool im not againts brian... Good luck buddy !! ok im gona start with desk but i just woke up so gimme a while :P. Yeh i agree were both pretty equal... this is more about commitment and how far you go with the detail rather than skill of modeling. Good luck !!

Just Blocking out main desk and shelves atm... around 15 mins work through:

looks quite nice to both of ya! Yea, i thought you 2 would be a good match. heheh. Just keep at it and put tons of detail into everything.. we will see who's the cleaner modeller at the end :).

Ive been away most weekend so this is all i have done... sorry im being slow

This took soooo long to make. I'm not very happy with it, and there is one or two things i gotta fix, but i got most of the work done. What do yall think?

Good stuff from both of you!
Vector: I know about the pains of keyboardmaking :D :rolleyes:

I think it looks good Vector. Maybe make the edges a little rounder? Overall looks the part though.

i'm hoping it will look okay from far away without having to round ALL those edges, and quadruple the geometry, however i will round the corners at the edges of the keybord, for they are a bit round.

Yes sorry I meant on the edges of the board rather than the keys.

Heres the monitor. C&C Apreciated.

whoa man, props to the keyboard for the ammount of time that must of took.. and props to that pen! Great job on it, very realistic.. now all you need is "Bic" written on the side of it :thumbsup:

Thanx M, i'm starting to be proud of this project. What about the monitor???

Starting to look decent

Looking good!

What resolution do you use on that monitor?

- S

its the same resolution as my desktop, 1152x864, i don't know why it looks blurry tho!

heres some wires against a mental ray render, wish i knew how to use it!

Okay and heres the wire of the monitor. BTW i remade the red pen, and completed it this time except for the spring in the tip of it, i'm not quite sure how to draw a perfect spring shaped curve:confused:

C&C time guys.

Looks nice so far Vec. One thing on the monitor. It looks taller than it is wider. But maybe its just my horrible eyes. I noticed the texture on top of the desk is abit stretched/blurry. Again, could be my eyes, heh. :) Im liking the keyboard tho.

Good stuff, just make the monitor 4:3 in aspect ratio, it looks a bit too tall right now. .)

Okay guys here the new monitor, with a tweak or two, and a bit more texture.

Monitors are based on a 4:3 ratio, usually.

woot at last, i have a day i can do somthing on this, i have had no chance until now.. did my monitor in around 45mins... here is what i have so far, the shader is almost compleate, just got to set out UV's convert the procedurals to images and add logos and stuff. but thats once i have finished modeling everything else :P looking good vector man, i am quite proud of this, what do you guys think:

The geometry looks good! What you might want to do is do a "edit polygons -> normals -> set to face" and then "edit polygons -> normals -> soften/harden" with a good (experiment) value. That should clean up the normals a bit. Good luck.

yeh that was just the last value i had on that tool so i just rushed it, thanks for that though i will try and smooth it, i will show some final gather renders soon too

Okay, started on the speakers and mouse, i don't know what i'll be able to finish today. Today is the last day right??

Please tell me what yall think

I like the speakers, nice shape. The mouse looks a tad flat, but it's all coming together nicely.

Thanx witchy, its not really a mouse yet, just a mouse shaped blob. I'm kinda having a block with it. The intellimouse is a bit hard.

One more wire

Hey vect........You can use wings 3d to make the springs.

springs, you can do taht with maya, just get nurbs cylinder and use snap to verts with the cv curve tool around the cylinder to get your spring shape then extrude a circle along it, i saw someone mention that here, so woot to them :D

argh sorry its late, started rendering before mid night but it took longer than i though, ive spent A lot of today on this especially on keyboard, im happy with the render but i could do better, i didnt expect to be so busy during the competition, but i think i pulled it off thanks to my good friend Final Gather. FINAL RENDER:

Final gather helps alot, it takes time though. Like your stuff Laurie, hope to see vectors final before deciding :)

FINAL RENDER
 

Aright, to be more fair, i didn't make a cord for my "mouse" or my keyboard either. Time to vote guys. wOOOt.

I gotta say i love the desk textures vec,
great job guys

Thanx! The desk textures came from some video i shot up close of it, and i stiched it all together by hand.