Week 06 Day 40, 20th July '11 (Wed)

You probably noticed the routine by now, every Wednesday there's internal activity going on so we'll spend the morning doing that. A few really exciting ideas came to me during the activity, going to work on some personal project when I return to Singapore! Back to work after lunch.



Research on Hammer's Material

After getting feed-backs from Steven and Ari, I make a decision to do some research on exactly what material should my hammer be made of, of course it's metal but there are many types (Iron, steel, bronze, copper, stone?).

Asked myself, if this is ancient era - had people already discovered steel or are they still using iron?
Which led me to the following sites and in the process gained more general knowledge,

Minerals & Hammer related links,
http://paleo.cc/paluxy/hammer.htm
http://www.rocksandminerals4u.com/properties_of_minerals.html
http://www.bestcrystals.com/hardness.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohs_scale_of_mineral_hardness 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/11th_century_BC
http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=ab16 

Index of Refraction (IOR) list from a cgsociety thread - bookmark this if you haven't got one,
http://forums.cgsociety.org/archive/index.php/t-513458.html

Conclusion - mine is going to be a steel hammer, moving on to next phase.



Painting Color Map
With the textures and custom Photoshop brushes (cracks/scratches) prepared last evening, I jumped into Photoshop. The last time i painted textures was months ago during Advanced Lighting & Photorealistic Rendering module conducted by Mr Pang where me & Pamela integrated Transformer, Bumble Bee into a live-still shot.

Focused most of my attention on places where the camera would see especially where close-up shots occur, will put more effort into it next time - priority now is to get this over with and move on, being a single man... it's not wise to be a perfectionist doing work which the camera can't see.

These are a few iterations I went through, v002, v004 & v006 respectively...

Note: While i was working on this, I discovered that even though you activated "Color Map" option - if you don't untick "Base Color" option, it would still add on to the color contribution which i believe is bad since it changes the color of your actual map. What you want is what you see is what you get right?



Render 08_hammer turntable
With good progress on the color map, shall send this to render before heading home.
Had a new camera set up to render close up of the hammer head.

 

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