Final Project

Part 1:

Description: I plan on modeling an alien jungle. I will likely use custom made materials for my various plants and jungle floor. My materials might include: mud, bark, moss, and photo-scanned leafs.

                                   Sketches                                   

Part 2:

Description: Below are the rough models of my first five plants. I made each of these in Rhino and/or Fusion 360. In Rhino I made the rounded stems of my plants using the curve and pipe commands, and made the leaves in Fusion. I plan on creating better textures for each plant in Blender and changing the models slightly in Fusion 360.

                                   Rough Models                                   

Part 3:

Description: Below are all of my finished models. I modeled each of these in Fusion 360 and Rhino. To create the leaves, I took a face and extruded from it other faces to create a simple curved surface in Fusion. To create the stems, trunks, and branches of each plant I used the pipe command in Rhino to create a tapered tube and exported it to Fusion to connect to my leaves. From there I exported my models to Blender and drew an alpha and color map for the leaves. I then used Blender's material node system to create procedural textures for the rest of each model. 

                                   Polished Models                                   

Part 4:

Description: For my final render I took all my finished models and populated a jungle/swamp landscape with them within Blender. The goal of this project was to create models with enough variety to better emulate a natural jungle environment while still fitting together as a whole. The models are as low-poly as possible, to make managing the file simpler for the computer and while maintaining a professional aesthetic. The render of my final environment is shown below: 

                                   Final Render                                   

Lab 4

                               Rendered Proposal: Petal Ceiling Lamp                               

Project Description:

     My final project proposal is to create a ceiling lamp. This lamp would mount into the standard electrical socket for ceiling lights, and is modeled to include a socket for a bulb. 

Project Creation Process:

    My lamp would be printed out on a 3D printer using clear 3D printing filament that would be either painted or tinted red. The plastic petals of the lamp are stacked in layers, where every petal on that layer is fused together at the base. The layers would be glued together, and if necessary would be screwed together as well. The bulb that I'd use would be a led, so that it wouldn't melt the lamp. The base of the lamp would be cut from plywood using a laser cutter, sanded, and painted a dark grey. I could not easily create this lamp without the use of digital fabrication tools due to the complex curvature and the number of copies of each petal.