The New SMC's - 003 - Blinding Light

[vladoportos]

So next one from me, inspired by flashlight which i found on google ( i made some changes to it )

Modeling: 54min
Rendering: Big picture 1 hours 45min than i get BSOD ( Blue Screen Of Dead ) cause i tried to kill one hanging process during render ( vlc media player died on me ) and when i hit kill whole windows died , smaller picture rendered 34min...

Soft: Rhino + Maxwell as usual

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* that "tentacles" or how to call that things what lights are put on are made by that donut arrayed on curve.

Whole flashlight works in two modes:

1st: You pull the back part out and all lights arrange to normal flash light.
2nd: You pull back part inn and you can arrange each lights as you wish

I wanna to import biped from max and make it pose like scared in front of that flashlight so it would look like he is in front of Hydra but i have no more time for today, have to go sleep cause i have work tomorrow

So hope you like it and very nice entries so far

[Rachel vd M]

here's a new entry, i wanted to make a very strange (maybe very unpractical) lamp

here it is:

[justus_jonas]

Hi Everybody!
Another week and again tons of amazing stuff!
This time i went for a rather old school flashlight. I know it´s all shiny and the metal appears too black but first of all i really suck at texturing/rendering and second of all i liked the plastic/toyish look of it.
cheers jj

[Lukanus]

Hi everyone!

I see some very nice stuff there! Nice work people!
Here's mine, hope you like it.

Cheers!

[h2k1]

CG : nice entry, nice model, awesome render!
Sidaho : tnx for ur comments, urs looks awesome too, very photorealistic!
DaddyDoom : very nice entry, i would have liked to see it under water
Vladoportos : wao, so nice entry, those tentacles look scary, just like sentinels in matrix movie! awesome!
Rachel vd M : really nice concept, only thing, i dont like so much that sphere on the top, maybe the material? it doesnt fit with the rest...really nice tho !
justus_jonas : heh, funny entry, like from a cartoon, nice one!
Lukanus : nice entry, like the way it looks, nice scene setup!

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so heres my 2nd entry, a carbon fiber one! modelled in XSI, rendered in 3ds, from primitives, hope u like it!

[MrX]

Hi all, here's my entry; my LED flashlight with litle modification.

Software: Blender 2.44
Modeling Time : 45 min
Texturing Time : 60 min
Rendering Time : 1h 20 Min

[Keylitho]

Well this is the only entry that I will have time for this week.. Everybody elses look awsome.

[Rachel vd M]

here is my fourth entry,
it wasn't easy, 3dsmax seems to dislike boolean or proboolean, it crashed several times
in the end i still managed to finish it on time!
i was thinking all day to come op with a new lamp design, and this is what i came up with:
its a light that can split up to become larger, i have the mechanism working in 3ds!

[Trimyr]

First one from me. This is a flashlight I've had for about a year. It's quite handy since you never need to worry about batteries. Of course, now that I've tried to model it, I don't think I like it anymore.

There were a couple of areas I had to figure out before I could start working on the model. I'll always look for a solution that doesn't involve booleans, but this time I had to work for it.

The screw holes, for instance, are nicely rounded and head straight back, yet not toward the center. This confused me for a minute, until I tried beveling a couple faces on a cylinder with height:-0.01 / outline:-0.01 three times. Normally twice will still leave a nice edge after meshsmooth, but was going for something else. After the bevel I pulled the (now slightly smaller) polygons back, not toward the center of the cylinder, but straight along the y axis. I then scaled them to a y-value of zero, taking them from \ / to - -. A quick couple bevels to keep them in place after smoothing, and that problem was solved.

This flashlight has 5 LEDs, housed in five circles within a cylinder - the perfect candidate for booleans. Except, of course, if you take an 8 sided cylinder with two cap segments, chamfer the center vertex and every other one out from that. Delete those polygons, and all others except for the top, and it's ready for a shell modifier to thicken it up. I figured I could use the same technique for the lens, minus the deleting faces part.

Once I knew I could knock those areas out, I started modeling. Even without those sections giving me any trouble, I still nearly ran out of time. I spent half an hour pushing around that crank and handle section. Just never seemed to look quite right. So, no screws in those screw holes I worked on, or other fine details, but I learned a few new tricks doing it, so I'm happy.


Software: 3DS Max
Modeling: 60 minutes

[praveen3d]

Trimyr: Cool modeling & a very nice render there

[URs3D.net]

Maybe there will be a second entry from me...i think i should do one more...cause i dont have anything else to do.....boring..
Hehe.
But first i will go to sleep, 2morrow is a new day, with new creativity

[h2k1]

Rachel vd M : i love that design! really nice!
Trimyr : nice entry, it seems a lot of work! awesome render!
MrX : nice entry, simple but effective, nice work!
Keylitho : love that render, that ground texture looks nice!

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so heres my 3rd entry, fully inspired by splinter cell (awesome game btw, one on my favorites), modelled in XSi from primitives, extrusion and bevel....and then rendered in 3ds with v-ray, hope u like

[Sky_Eagle]

Here's a other entry.
It's a flashlight the scouts use. ( its called that way in belgium )

Modelt in Maya
Modeling time 50 Min
Rendert in Max
Rendering time 3 hours
setting up the lightning/materials: 2 hours (way to long)

[Rachel vd M]

hello i made a new flashlight, i made it to look like a flash grenade,
here's my entry:

[URs3D.net]

Nice one there Rachel, but i miss the smoothing..it has really sharp edges...

So, here comes my second entry, also an very ancient flash-light.
Was used in 1924..but it worked hehe..
Tried to make an old photograph look...but i think i didnt really manage to do so..But as i said after a good sleep.. heres my second entry..


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