3d Environment design by Shoeb Mohammad.

1. Things we are going to look
at…
O Blue Prints
O Cornice, Doors & Windows
O Sofa/Couch & Arm-chair
O Bookshelves, Mixed Shelves and Wall Shelves
O Lamps
O Decorative Pieces
 Vases
 Frames
 Boxes
 Candles
 Bottles
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2. Things we are going to look
at…
O Books
O Plants
O Final Renders
O Asset List
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3. Plans and Sketches…
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4. Vector image of the rooms primary layout
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5. 3D version of the completed room from the top view
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6. The Very Basics…
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7. For creating cornice, a reference image had been downloaded, right
after that, in Max, the same design was mimicked using spline lines.
Later ‘Extrude’ modifier was applied to give the thin line some
weight.
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8. For creating a semi spherical cornice for using in the corners of the
walls, a face from the existing cornice was borrowed, then using a
1/4th of a spline circle, the face was ‘extruded along the spline’;
producing arcs for the pillars as well.
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9. At first the frame of the window was imagined on a piece of
paper, then while designing, the shape of the handle and its
height was determined.
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10. Each window is constructed with two different slides, each
having a handle to open or close, each slides have a thick
glass which refracts the suns bright light into the room.
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11. The couch was also thought before starting push buttons on
Max, the sketch shows the primary box type structure for the
sofas side, back and cushions.
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12. The 3d version of the sofa has taller pillows than the concept, to
give it a bit more realistic look, also the sitting cushions are
deformed using soft selections of the vertices and then adding
4x4x4 FFD modifier in the Max.
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13. The armchair was made straight into max manipulating a
box, each side was cloned and then connected using few
pieces of chamfered elements.
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14. Bookshelves are the most integral part of the room, the most
detailed objects were found on each shelves, specially the
colorful books gave a touch of realism.
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15. To enhance further realism, pipe-like wooden pieces were modeled,
the shelves racks were mounted on top of those small knobs which
goes into the side of each compartments to hold the corresponding
planks on top.
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16. Mixed shelves were used directly opposite of the couch, since it is
an ideal place to put a television set on, although because this room
is for reading only, there were vases and picture frames were put on
top, where various books in the center compartment.
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17. These simple looking wall shelves were instanced several times to
cover big portion of the room empty wall area, they are chamfered
into several segments in order to look more natural. A dark oak
textures been assigned for a final touch.
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18. There are two different lamps are lighting up the room, the
first one is the ceiling lamp, located on the center of the roof.
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19. Ceiling lamp was modeled using several vertical connections along
the edge ring, after few steps of edge separation, the line of
polygons in-between were extruded in negative value, finally the
were scaled down a tad to give its mandarin look.
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20. The second type of the lamp is plane and simple floor stand
lamp, there were nothing special done for this lamp except
using the lathe modifier in the bottom part.
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21. Lathe modifier was applied on a close ended splines to create
this model, the edge of each vertices ware curved smooth
using Max’s ‘fillet’ tool.
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22. There are dozens of small decorative pieces are placed on our 3d
room, most of them are located on top of the shelves or inside.
Bottles, vases, frames, boxes, candles and many more are gathered
together to make the room looks lively.
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23. Vases
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24. There are many different vases been modeled from the
scratch for this scene, the most effective way of using lathe
modifier was the key for making most of these décor of
glasses.
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25. Some of them were textured as metal, some were aluminum,
depending on the environments temperature and mood
each vase had been placed on the most suitable position.
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26. Some of them were textured as metal, some were aluminum,
depending on the environments temperature and mood
each vase had been placed on the most suitable position.
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27. Few of them were textured as marbles, so that it gives the
impression of solidity and vibrant atmosphere. Some of them were
applied marbles just to make the surrounding a bit more antique
enriched.
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28. This vase along with few others were applied glass material, that has
real IOR value to pass light photons to an object, hence the lifelike
reflection of the corresponding object behind the glass brings the
level simply up.
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29. Few different types of picture frames including wall and desktop
were placed in the scene. Most of the pictures were downloaded off
of the internet and placed using UVW map modifier.
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30. This interesting box was used several times in the scene, its sides
are made out of aluminum and the some of the cloned boxes are
applied with black plastic, some are applied with white paper
materials.
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31. Candle stands are made with lathe modifiers. A standard distance
between two vertices determine certain thickness to the stand, so
that after applying a low IOR glass material, the stand looks solid,
also fog is applicable for these stands, giving an option to have
variety of colors.
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32. The candles are on the other hand are made out of solid cylinder
shapes, after chamfering the top edges and adding the fuse, candles
were applied with very light translucent refraction. So that the wax
looking characteristics are perfectly preserved.
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33. Bottles for these scene were designed in many different sizes
and shapes, most of them were used scaled down to fill up
empty silhouette of the room.
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34. Alongside the curtains there are few different variety of fabrics
applied to the scene, for the curtains a line of spline was
manipulated with Bezier handles to give those curves, later FFD
modifiers were applied to give more lifelike finish.
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35. Books, books and more
books…
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36. Many different collection of books were filled into the
shelves, the bookshelves and the mixed shelves are basically
filled with millions of pages of these books.
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37. Most of the books are downloaded from the internet, all of
them uses their own texture for covers, the asset list have
more details.
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38. The organic touch…
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39. The most essential part for a believable 3d environment are
the plants, their organic structures and the model of
magnificent details always adds up to the scene.
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40. Despite being heavy on the scene, some of the plant models
were used in some key points of the room, to balance out the
equation of nature vs. non-living ratio.
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41. Most of the used plants are downloaded from the internet,
they are from cg-axis.com the asset details have more
information on them.
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46. Asset No. of
Copyright Informa tion
Ast.No. /Layer Asset Type Entities/Obj Description Texture and Materia ls
Name ects
BOOK- 3d Model 3d Model of Bookshelves, set of 4, 2 in each pair, located north N/A Used texture located in
SHELVES Bookshelves and southwest part of the room from the top view. Self-made SCENE ASSETHARD
01 73 Entities SURFACES
CHAIR 3d Model Chair Arm Chair as furniture object, located west from top view. N/A Used texture located in
Self-made SCENE ASSETHARD
02 14 Objects SURFACES
CORNICE 3d Model Cornice Cornice runs along the world, located on the ceiling of the room N/A -
03 27 Entities Self-made
COUCH 3d Model Couch with A modern couch is located on the north side of the room with 6 N/A Used texture located in
pillows sets of cushions. Self-made SCENE ASSETFABRICS
04 20 Objects
DOOR 3d Model Door A single entry, regular lock door with glass in the middle, located CGAxis.com is on-line 3D models store. Price: $10 Used texture located in
south from the top view. http://www.cgaxis.com/product-info.php?door_62- SCENE ASSETHARD
05 3 Objects pid320.html SURFACES
FABRICS Group of A group of most prominent fabrics used in the room, such as N/A Used texture located in
1.3d Model Curtains curtains, blankets and rugs, note: v-ray fur is applied on certain Self-made SCENE ASSETFABRICS
2.3d Model Blankets models. Located near the arm chair and below the couch.
3.3d Model Rugs
06 18 Entities
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47. Asset No. of
Copyright Informa tion
Ast.No. /Layer Asset Type Entities/Ob Description Texture and Materials
Name jects
FLOOR 3d Floor The floor is divided in three parts, the top is the wooden curved N/A Used texture located in
3d model and rest two are the base, located in the bottom of the Self-made SCENE ASSETHARD
07 3 Objects room. SURFACES
FRAMES 3d Model Picture Assorted picture frames from small to large, located various N/A Used texture located in
frames parts of the room. Self-made SCENE ASSETHARD
SURFACESSmall Decorative
Paints and Pictures are
located in
08 33 Objects SCENE ASSETPAINTS
LAMPS Group of Two sources of lights for the room, one is the ceiling lamp N/A -
1.3d Floor Lamp located on the ceiling and the floor lamp located on the east part Self-made
2.3d Ceiling Lamp of the room.
09 7 Entities
MIX SHELF 3d Model Shelves Mixed shelves are used for storing books, vase and assorted N/A Used texture located in
small decorative furniture. Located on the south of the room Self-made SCENE ASSETHARD
10 9 Entities from the top view. SURFACES
PLANTS 3d Model of plants 7 different types of plants used in the room, they are located CGAxis.com is on-line 3D models store. Price: $12 Used textures located in
and plant pots. near the shelves. http://www.cgaxis.com/product-info.php?plant_09- SCENE ASSETPLANTS
pid182.html
SCENE ASSETHARD
Plant in Pot 20. PRICE: $12.00 SURFACESSmall Decorative
http://www.cgaxis.com/product-info.php?plant_20-
pid193.html
Potted Tree 19. PRICE: $12.00
http://www.cgaxis.com/product-info.php?plant_19-
pid192.html
Pink Gerbera Daisies in Glass Vase 18. PRICE: $10.00
http://www.cgaxis.com/product-info.php?plant_18-
pid191.html
Potted Houseplant 15.PRICE: $12.00
11 30 Entities
http://www.cgaxis.com/product-info.php?plant_15-
pid188.html
Potted Orchid Plant 14. PRICE: $20.00
http://www.cgaxis.com/product-info.php?plant_14-
pid187.html
Yellow Tulips in Vase 12.PRICE: $12.00
http://www.cgaxis.com/product-info.php?plant_12- 47
pid185.html
Cactus Plant in Pot 05.PRICE: $10.00
http://www.cgaxis.com/product-info.php?plant_05-
pid178.html

48. Asset No. of
Copyright I nforma tion
Ast.No. /Layer Asset Type Entities/Obj Description Texture and Materials
Name ects
ROOF 3d Model Roof Suitable roof for the room, located on the ceiling position. N/A -
12 1 Object Self-made
SHELF 3d Model or groups Shelf objects are placed on top of the bookshelves, mix shelf and Books: Used textures located in
OBJECTS of, wall shelves, each containing various types of books, small Viscorbel
1.Books decorative furniture, plant, sculpture, box, plants, bottles or chest. http://viscorbel.com/free-3d-models/ SCENE ASSETBOOKS
2.Plants
3.Pots There are more than thousand individual entities are bound into Models of Books (100 pcs.)
4.Vase 344 Groups and finally into one group, “Shelf Objects”. Rich collection of books, fully textured, tuned especially for SCENE ASSETPLANTS
5.Sculptures VRay renderer.
6.Décor sets http://3dmention.org.ua/models-of-books-100-pcs/ SCENE ASSETHARD
7.Storage Boxes SURFACESSmall Decorative
8.Plates Book 3D Models
9.Bottles Free Models of books with detailed textures. SCENE ASSETHARD
10.Chests http://3dmention.org.ua/the-set-of-30-books/ SURFACESWooden Chest
Vase: Glass Golden Vase SCENE ASSETHARD
A gold covered glass vase 3d model. SURFACESWooden Trunk
http://3dmention.org.ua/glass-golden-vase/
13 344 Groups
Sculpture: Frog sculpture
High quality frog 3d model.
http://3dmention.org.ua/frog-sculpture/
Lamb sculpture
High quality lamb sculpture 3d model.
http://3dmention.org.ua/lamb-sculpture/
Rest: N/A Self-made
TABLES 3d Model or groups There are two tables, coffee table and mail table, one located near N/A Used textures located in
of, the couch and another close to the arm chair. Self-made SCENE ASSETHARD
1.Mail Table SURFACES
2.Coffee Table
14 31 Entities
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49. Asset No. of
Copyright Information
Ast.No. /Layer Asset Type Entities/Obj Description Texture and Materials
Name ects
WALL 3d Model of wall Scalable wall, converted into editable polygon. N/A -
15 1 Object Self-made
WALL 3d Model of wall Wall shelves are located east and north part of the room, each N/A Used textures located in
SHELVES shelves containing various types of books, small decorative furniture, plant, Self-made SCENE ASSETHARD
sculpture, box, plants, bottles or chest. SURFACES
16 12 Objects
WINDOWS 3d Model of There are 4 sets of windows are located north, east and west part N/A -
windows of the room. Self-made
Each window has two separate parts of glasses.
17 45 Entities
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