speed modelling challenge week 23 - computer desk chair

[Neomax]

Hi Ev'body,I'm Back again!
some good entries this week.
The_bully Glad to see MODE back on track!

Originally posted by prithvi
heh heh bully, I was thinking of doing that one too.
nicely done.
anyways, here's my first entry for this week.

Nice one prithvi!
its good to see you working at least at home !

will be posting my entry later by end of the week as i dont have time to sit for an hour in front of Computer!
NEO

[Caffeine]

Finally managed to render my entry, rendering the particle fur used up 1.6 GB of memory (3DSMAX7 + Mental Ray)

Modelling : 30 minutes (some FFD work on spheres, plus a lathed spline)
Texturing : 5 minutes
Rendering : 5 hours 41 minutes (of which 2 minutes was actual rendering time, the rest was recovering from STOP errors and crashes due to running out of memory and / or MAX fatal exceptions)


It's a furry egg chair in an egg cup , probably not practical, but fun! There are some bald spots in the fur as any more fur caused nasty crashes...

[Black]

Caffeine

A VERY original and well done model.
Maybe next time you could have done two things that would help you in both the rendering process and the looks.

Like firstly having the fur cast shadows would help alot to enhace the image. (Though it would demand even more memory)

And secondly: Why didn't you texture the inside of the egg in the fur's texture and colour?
You wouldn't have blank spots and maybe you would be off with only a dence blotch in the front bit of it

Well just my two cents.. great models everyone!

[novoAlias]

well Black, you just took any chance i had of winning great model

[LESTAT]

modelled in max 5.1

time taken to model - 20 minutes
textured in - 5 minutes
render time - 1 minutes

scanline renderer , 2 omni's , area shadows .

[Caffeine]

Originally posted by Black
Caffeine

A VERY original and well done model.
Maybe next time you could have done two things that would help you in both the rendering process and the looks.

Like firstly having the fur cast shadows would help alot to enhace the image. (Though it would demand even more memory)

And secondly: Why didn't you texture the inside of the egg in the fur's texture and colour?
You wouldn't have blank spots and maybe you would be off with only a dence blotch in the front bit of it

Well just my two cents.. great models everyone!

Thanks for the comments Black! I appreciate your feedback. I did originally try to render the fur with shadows, but it crashed every time unfortunately. I ended up reducing the quality of fur (from 12 sided splines to 3 sided) and removing the shadows and it finally rendered, although not repeatably, it would still crash occasionally.

Excellent point regarding texturing the inside of the egg, I'll remember that one for next time

Thanks again!

[escaped_monkey]

Hmm, I want to enter... but my chair is really boring and plain. It's not even a real office chair, it's got four legs and it's wooden.

*looks at chair again*

Ugh, it's so boring.

[Black]

Originally posted by BlackWolf
well Black, you just took any chance i had of winning great model

Coming from the some one who has posted this guy I have to admit that I am very flattered.
I had a mind to post my first attempt. But your post sort of got me motivated to give it another try on some curvatures of it.

Originally posted by Caffeine
Excellent point regarding texturing the inside of the egg, I'll remember that one for next time

Thanks again!

You'd probably come up with it eventually. But I am glad I was of some use

[LESTAT]

well...the chair has been tested ...and it has been proved that the back of this chair is not to be leaned against !! ( lol ) this one's no easy chair ...but is easy on the butt


i admire your chair though ! ... my barber uses the same ( good job ) ........cheers !

[aliased]

Hi

some great models this week, busy with some project work at this moment. Really would of liked to enter this and the v.cleaner comp.....

does any one know of any good tutorials explaining GI in 3d Max, sky tracer etc sort of struggling - as I have only ever touched on Max 4 a bit.

[andoy]

Black: good job yet again, i really like your style.

[Black]

LESTAT

_ Lol..
from your avatar I was more than sure you were attending a classy 'Barber'.

I actually modeled it for fitting a chair to the renevation of the house and studio.
But it seems it is not going to be affordable.



Thank you Andoy..
you are always very kind

[mimi01]

Wonderful entries from you guys!

I was really busy this week trying out different modelling techniques

This one took me 40 minutes modelling, 10 minutes texturing and lights and render about 10 minutes again. All in 3dmax 5.

Its a chair for Formel 1 mechanicals.

[tecsun]

done in 3dsmax 6, default scanline render. what you feel bout it? juz comment it, i'm trying to improve myself(currently beginner).

[mitchOne]

Hi guys,
has anybody seen who stole me the wheels?

SW: 3ds MAX 6
Modelling : 56 minutes
Texturing : 50 minutes