{"id":10216,"date":"2013-05-29T23:55:03","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T22:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kirkd.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10216"},"modified":"2025-08-04T15:38:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T14:38:48","slug":"im-making-a-note-herehuge-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kirkd.co.uk\/blog\/im-making-a-note-herehuge-success\/","title":{"rendered":"I’m making a note here, huge success"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, nearly…<\/p>\n

Monday night (May 27th) was FE Suffolk<\/a> night and I’d volunteered to give a talk about my use of Cinema 4d and how I have used it to make content for websites, games, videos and other such tomfoolery. To try and make it interesting to the web people in the audience who have probably never been near a NURBS or a metaball in their lives, I thought it would be more fun to demo both Cinema 4d and Unity to give an idea about how a 3d app can be slotted into a workflow. That was the theory anyway but as the saying goes, the best laid plans…<\/p>\n

I thought a good way to grab the audiences attention would be to build an iconic object from a well know game so picked the weighted companion cube simply as it’s a cube shape so works well with going from a primitive shape up to something more complex. I built the cube on a Sunday afternoon the week before the talk and spent about a few hours over the next couple of nights putting the texture together while having some fun with the model.
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\nThis shows my step by step process starting with a primitive cube. The second one is a demo to show a default cube with its standard UV and how simple it is to drop a texture on to get a basic object textured. The third cube is me using a boolean to build some of the shape up, yeah yeah yeah… booleans are not the best way to work but sometimes they can be used to get good results. The fourth cube is the final thing cleaned up and then five is the final textured cube with the UV’s cleaned up as the process of modeling the cube creates some horrible overlapping on the UV. I would go into depth on what some of the terms are but I doubt I could explain them well enough without a load of pictures.<\/p>\n

The final result isn’t bad for a few hours work and it’s free to download from the freebies section of the site<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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A quick video was rendered up to show an example of dynamics.
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