Final Crate Turn-In

Sketchfab Link: https://skfb.ly/6IUTU

Inspiration:

Originally, I wanted to start myself off with a sort of rectangular shaped crate based off the borderlands series, and have a sort of warm red, orange, or yellow color to it, but due to creating the prototype with a bit too many edge loops on places where I wanted to further detail, I went back to the square aesthetic of a sci-fi crate, and added in a sort of expensive, yet dangerous look to it. Although I believe more detail could be added, I think this project ended up being a good amount of fun and was relatively successful.

Textures:

The textures included a variety of pure metals and fabric materials with a bit of gloss and metalness added.

Time Frame:

Planning 1 hour

Modeling 10-12 hours

Texturing 2 hours

Layout 30 min

Lighting 30 min

Rendering Fast…?

Total ~16-17 hours

Problems:

Due to trying to smooth out the edges and details on my rectangular prototype crate, the crate obtained a bit too many edge loops for me to backtrack and make more detail on the forward, sides, and back of the original idea, leaving me to change ideas on what to create. Earlier on before the idea of a sci-fi mobster crate, I had some trouble importing the ID map of the rectangular crate, while although frustrating, had been solved relatively quickly.  Emissive maps seemed to be a big problem, and wouldn’t light up just the areas I specified, but the entire crate as a whole! Very frustrating, and sadly hadn’t been worked upon. I wanted to add nit and grit to the crate but I just couldn’t get the idea of how to go about it. I tried a few smudge brushes on the edges of the top and bottom of the crate but it didn’t seem to work too well on the vibrant colors I added, as well as the material. Though these problems still bug me a bit, I do intend on flattening them out as the semester continues to Z-brush.