This rotation is about creating a diorama model by MAYA
Moodboard
I literally wanted to do a zoo thing, so i did some research about each area of a zoo, cause the landforms area of different animal’s habitats are totally different, i prepared to pick one of them to become my modelling scene.
And I watched some artists’ works to feel what the 3D modelling world looks like.
MINDMAP AND SKETCHES:
i chose the area monkeys living, which i thought looks quite easy and interesting to make…
Colour palette :
I picked the colours are natural and like the forest in the sunset time.
Working process :
Modelling is literally difficult, especially the UV thing which I thought no time for learning so I gave it up. That’s why I watched the geometric trees tutorial on the internet and it was much easier to manipulate. Also I made it an island hanging in the air which I thought interesting and I added a little pool and wooden boxes in the corner which enriched the scene. I wanted to model some monkeys, but it was too hard for me now.
And because of UAL account problem, my time frame was way off limited, what I did was learning this software during the working process which made it more struggling .Like I did not know bend the item or shape the item regularly, you can see all the shape of my items in my work are quite random so I even did not address this question now.. I may find some tutorials to solve that later.
And the rope in the first pic was the most tricky one. I know how to shape it to a rope, but I don’t know how to add physical effect on it, like gravity. The only thing I could do was to move the middle part lower but it looks really stiff ( also because of the problem I mentioned above, otherwise I could bend it).
And the lighting was hard to handle too, some of them doesn’t work at all and it looks very weird. like this:
It was too dark and it did not have an atmosphere of sunset.
After tutorial with Luca, It turns out that I used wrong renderer. There are final works by using Arnold renderer:
There are some reflection from my friends:
1.Trees are too childlike and can’t match the grass.
2.Rope doesn’t have the texture, looks more like a chain.
3.Tings are not in unity.