Quickie model for my day job

[Gerry]

Here's a small piece I just completed for my day job, a schematic model of a plug-in room deodorizer. Started last Thursday and finished it today. Not technically a WIP since it's finished but I thought you'd like to see it.

[robcat2075]

That looks sharp!

[phatso]

A:M has the reputation of not being good for inorganic models. Bull. I'm at 250 such models and counting.

[largento]

That looks *really* good!

[rusty]

Nice!

 

A:M has the reputation of not being good for inorganic models. Bull. I'm at 250 such models and counting.

 

Agreed.

 

Rusty

[Gerry]

Actually I guess it is a WIP cause It keeps coming back to me for changes! thanks for your comments, peeps!

[agep]

Nice! Very illustrative. How did you do the rendering?

[Gerry]

Thanks Stian! It's a regular render composited with a toon render in Photoshop. Also rendered at a pretty high res (1920x1440) with a toon line of .5 which gives it a nice crispness. Some of the colors have changed and I rendered it in two poses, with the left array of bottles turned so we see their front. I'll post updates from work tomorrow.

 

Gerry

[Gerry]

Here's the final state before we sent it off to the client yesterday.

[phatso]

I wondered how you got that combination of regular rendering and crisp outlines. I'm going to have to master that technique. I will be writing a textbook and I intend to put hundreds of A:M illustrations in it.

 

I suppose you'll be wanting a cut of the royalties? (Don't quit your day job, it's a specialty book that may sell only 100 copies.)

 

Now, of course, to really wow the client, you're going to animate the parts rotating and then fitting together, right?

[jzawacki]

A:M has the reputation of not being good for inorganic models.

 

Why does it? Anyone new would see the cars, tanks, tractors, motorcycles.. and not even know it had such reputation.

[babreu]

That looks great, Gerry!

[robcat2075]

I particularly like the careful transparency effects.

[Gerry]

Thanks for the comments! I would be happy to do a quick tutorial on the render technique if there's interest. It's pretty straightforward, but I think sometimes I take my photoshop skills for granted. I'll try to post something in the next week or so.

[Gerry]

I'll have more updates on this shortly. I'm currently rendering images with some client alterations.