Coke Cans,
Made with Modo
(Personal Project).
These cans are part of an effort to produce some work for my visualising portfolio (which resides on another website). Rather than dealing with the problem of putting client work on a publicly available website, I’ve decided to create some original designs, thereby neatly avoiding the issue.
Can you identify which three coke products these are? I thought so… The graphics layer was created using a group mask on a material, rather than a transparent Photoshop file. It’s a flexible way of specifying different materials for the graphics and the sub-straight.
Standard Cans,
Made with Modo
(Personal Project).
This is my full set of standard drink cans, which I threatened to do when I made the original 330ml can. There are a surprising number of volumes available, although that 330ml is the most popular by far. The reason for doing these (other than an excuse to do the sequence of colours), is so that I have them on hand.
Rows and rows of colourful cans… This is the first time my computer has been under serious strain doing a render. I bet the polygon count was awfully high…
Bolts,
Made with Modo
(Personal Project).
The most difficult part of this bolt was the helical curve that makes up the thread. I thought it would be a useful technique to learn, particularly for screw caps on containers. For the hole in the head, I used the same bridging technique that I used on my hexagonal jar. The finish is polished steel, which combined with the sub-d model makes for some nice highlights.
Not wanting to waste an opportunity to use a good thread, I made a few alternative heads for my bolts. The standard one was probably the hardest to make because of the the top edge of each side being slightly rounded.
Drink Can,
Made with Modo
(Personal Project).
This is a test-build of a standard drinks can. I’d like to build a full set of can types to have on hand, so I thought it would be useful to build the most common one, to identify any issues. Once again this is a sub-d model, so the aim is something which is visually convincing, but isn’t necessarily technically accurate, which turns out to be quite frustrating if you’re inclined to be accurate…
I could have made the indentations on the top of the can using texture maps, but I decided modelling them would be more of a challenge, which turned out to be the case. However the trickiest part was the tab, because of the two different shaped holes – there was lots of manual patching of polygons involved…
Coffee and Biscuit,
Made with Modo
(Personal Project).
This is the cup and saucer I created previously, with the addition of some coffee, and a chocolate biscuit. The biscuit is a combination of photographic textures and displacement maps on a sub-d model. Displacements are great for adding fine organic detail, although you pay the price at the rendering stage.
Honey Jars,
Made with Modo
(Personal Project).
This was another quick model, partly to check how my standard scene renders glass and liquids, but also as groundwork for a client project.
Also available in hexagonal jars. The key thing here was to make sure the top of the hexagonal section had the same number of sides as the base of the round section. So even though visually they’re different shapes, they can be comfortably connected.
Coffee Cup,
Made with Modo
(Personal Project).
It’s based on a photo, but rather than get bogged-down in details I decided to capture the look as quickly as possible using a Sub-D model. A white gloss plastic from Modo’s texture library is sitting in for porcelain. Some coffee would be a good addition at some point.
Olive Oil Tins,
Made with Modo
(Personal Project).
The body and ends of the tin are a single piece, created using the Shift and Inset tools in Modo, and then assigned different materials. The cap was created in a similar way. Both are Sub-D. This scene is my new ‘Standard’ setup for product shots. I imagine it will be tweaked as I progress.
Cigarettes,
Made with Modo
(Personal Project).
This is a refined version of my previous cigarette. The bulk of the changes have been to the textures, particularly the tobacco, which I feel looks more convincing now. I've also added a seam where the paper overlaps, and a gold foil band, for good measure.
