Modeling The Washing Room

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  low polly washing machine

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  Room shape outline

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  Playing around with how the sky would work behind the window!

These are all screen shots from the first version of the room I had modeled. I only had one save of it and the file corrupted. I was furious and couldn’t touch Maya for a day, but on returning the next morning I realized that the room i had made was overly complicated and had way too much Polygons. So this file corruption was a blessing in disguise!

Ren and Stimpy were some of my inspirations for the second room i was going to be creating! because of the crazy exaggerated angels and bright colours of the characters!

Using Mesh- Booleans- Difference i created the funny shaped hole in the washing machine!

this was the outlined shape of the machine i was aiming for and i think it turned out awesome! It looks just like the designs i was drawing!

Here was the new room shape! I still kept the bent unnatural shape but with much less polygons and more simple like in my concept art.

Using Mesh- Booleans- Difference I made the window and i also slightly altered the shape of the room creating more slightly extreme deformities in the shape of the room, but i think i will make it wider still!

Here was the simple blocked out washing machine done and the new room i had designed. The basket was modeled by Courtney and was to help me block out the scene.

Playing with the lighting in the room. and seeing how i will make there appear that there is a sky outside the window. It wouldn’t appear when i would enter render view so i will be asking my professors for some help there!

failed lighting test! Shadows were too sharp and spooky

I was playing around with how the lighting would work from the sun beaming in through the window. Really happy with how this test turned out!

I was just framing a shot from the story boards here to see how it would look! I also love how the door turned out its really funky!

added in some shelves to add some depth to the scene.

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  Playing around with the camera so i can help my team members when we are framing our shots. It was so much fun using it!

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  testing different colours for the room

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  final wall and floor colours!

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  here I was trying different colours on the shelves

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  another shelve colour test

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  this was the shelve colours i stuck with because I want this environment to be familiar and welcoming so i used the colours of the socks!

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  Here i was playing around with some more lighting it created 2 different window reflections and had too much contrast, but i love the colour of the window light reflection on the wall!

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  here was what the camera could see when i was playing around with it!

Ive made so much progress and im so happy with all the lighting texturing and modeling tests ive done so far!

I thought the floor was looking really bare so I decided to add some power cables for the washing machine and the ironing board to work, I went with the same distorted and sharp style!

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These three screen shots were me molding the cables which were super tricky to get right. I had to use the button where you can see through everything to get the cables right and it took a lot longer than expected. I also started doing the cables using a cylinder but it went against my sharp style that was in everything else in the room so i deleted it and started from scratch using a cube this time for the cables and it turned out so much better and really does add a lot of depth to the room. So happy with how this small little detail turned out!!!

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These three screen shots were me testing the sky and how it would work. My professor Alec taught me how to do it by creating a large plane and adding the .jpg image to the material!

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it looked awesome but the picture was way too detailed in contrast to the super simple look of the room, so me and Orla created a more simple sky for the background and thats what is in the final film!

This is the final sky i was talking about above!

here I was framing up a shot from the story board, I love the darker colours in the washing machine they’re almost a warning of the darkness that awaits our main protagonist later in the film!

Something that really stood out to me when i was modeling the room was just how out of place the Ironing board was compared to the rest of the room. Orla had made a fantastic Ironing board that would have been fantastic in a different project but it was too perfect when compared to the low polly sharp room!

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So with her permission I remade the ironing board using the same sharp style of the room. and it really did add a lot more style and funk to the room! so happy with how it turned out! Its the ironing board id imagine Prince to have!

I was inspired by Surfs Up for the shape of the ironing board, I love the bent unperfect shape of the surf boards from this film so i looked at them for reference!

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Here i was just finalizing the lighting for the scene, and its really starting to come together!

another lighting test and i was messing with the sky placement!

You can really see my inspirations from Cat City paying off in the room!

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Finally here is the final room that i handed off to the team for them to start animating in! Im so proud of my self for the work i have done in this environment. It has a unique style and it looks just like it did in my concept art pieces. This was all done because of the help of my amazing team and Professors that have been helping me throughout these difficult times!

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Heres some screen shots from the animation to show how well everything turned out in the end!