[Tim Ellis]

Progress will be shown through this thread, so please scroll down.

Check on page 11 for the finished image & animation.

Progress log:-

5/9
Project started.

6/9
Desk modeled.
Keyboards modeled.
PC monitors modeled.
Da Vinci colour control surface modeled.
Kodak box modeled.
Video switcher modeled.

7/9
Main chair modeled.
Phone modeled.

8/9
B&W speaker cabs modeled.
Sting video HDD modeled.
Couch modeled.
Eyebox modeled.
Audio VU box modeled.
Audio amplifier modeled.
TV monitor control box modeled.
Waveform monitors modeled.

9/9
Door & ceiling tiles modeled.
Curtain modeled.
Folder & paper sheets modeled.
Scanner modeled.
Large & medium TV monitors modeled.
Small TV monitor modeled.
Lighting modeled.
1st lighting tests started.

10/9
Day off.

14/9
TK panel modeled.

15/9
Mouse modeled.
SGI computer & cabinet modeled.

16/9
Pens modeled.
Pen holder modeled.

19/9
Remote modeled.
USB pen modeled.
Keyboard wrist rest modeled.
Dell PC modeled.

20/9
Second chair modeled.

21/9
Screwdrivers modeled.

22/9
Max faces test.

25/9
Bin & bin bag modeled.
Film box and cupboard modeled.
12 million faces test.

28/9
First multilight test.

8/10
Material tests.

9/10
More material tests.

12/10
Chair material test renders.
Scene scaling and mesh tweaks.

16/10
Chair meshes refined.
Further scene scaling and mesh tweaks.

17/10
Curtain remodeled.
First scene multilight test.
Materials assigned and prepped for further tweaking.

18/10
Materials render.

19/10
Materials multilight render & demo.

20-23/10
Camera matching.
Object postioning.
Materials progress.

24/10
Further material tweaks.
New multilight anim.

25/10
Computer and underdesk wires modeled.
USB strap modeled.
Silver lights reworked for correct materials and reflections.
Screen UV mapping and materials fixed.
Curtain reworked to reduce uniformity.
Carpet stains added.

26/10
Object alignment.
Final small objects modeled.
More material tweaks.
New multilight animation.
Curtain mesh intersections removed.
Desk section and DUI control surface rotated to match.
UV tweaks for screens.

27/10
Chairs reworked.
New multilight.
More material tweaks.
Final object alignment.

28/10
MXS file corrupted.
Back up file brought up to current condition.
Further material tweaks.
Final render started

31/10
Finished.

2/11
Couple more desk renders & new multilight animation.

6/11
1 more desk render & new multilight compilation animation.

Scene data

Geometry:
Num Meshes: 361
Num Triangles: 1918120
Num Vertexes: 965073
Num Normals: 678466
Bitmaps:
Num Bitmaps: 36

MXM files: 83


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Ref photo:-


I may have second thoughts about this scene, but I'm going to start work on it anyway. It's my office which has no natural lighting, so everything will be mxi & emitter lit through out.

I guess I'll have to add a flash light from the camera too, to match the photo as closely as possible.


First modeling progress later today.

Tim.

[ivox3]

Have you gone bloody mad ?

Best of luck to ya Tim.

[Tim Ellis]

Have you gone bloody mad ?

I have now I've just spent the last 20mins, measuring everything.

Cheers.

[EONA]

Which yacht's Nav. station did you nic that off!!
It is not one of ours

[sandykoufax]

wow, too many keyboards, too many buttons, too many moniters and moniter reflections.

Good luck Tim.

[SunlightRocker]

I wish You all my Luck. You will need it. Just kidding..

[kizo]

nice idea, if i join it will be the same, I mean my "office", but in a verry ugly state, not so clean

[glebe digital]

When's that deadline again?!?
Good luck Tim!

[Tim Ellis]

Thank you.

Progress:-
Desk modeling completed.
Keyboards modeled.
PC monitors modeled.
Da Vinci colour control surface modeled.

Blender pre-viz renders, camera angle not matched yet.



Reference for control surface:-


Quick Maxwell un-smoothed clay render:-


More tomorrow.

Tim.

[chrisvconley]

You rock my shock.



Go Tim!

Chris

[MarkM]

Ok… the clay render is just not right….
Clay renders are NOT allowed to look photo real

Great work… keep going!

[Tim Ellis]

Thanks.

Small modeling update, Kodak box & video switcher panel:-



More later.

Tim.

[SunlightRocker]

Great start Tim. Lokkin forward to see the rest.

[Tim Ellis]

Cheers mate.

Update:-
Maxwell quick clay render of switcher & Kodak box in situ:-



Main chair (Blender wire):-

Maxwell quick clay render:-


More later.

Tim.

[jdp]

gosh

you guys are so fast that we can set another performance parameters: poly/min... you should also add it in your CV.