I made a 3D model of my bird (lots of pictures)

[peacock486]

I made a 3D model of my bird. it's the first organic model i've ever done in my life, and probably the hardest thing i've ever done in my life too. like i said, it's my first, so don't expect it to be that good. Also, there was a deadline. 8PM May 28th. The reason is that at 8PM, alfred.tv would do his thursday webcast. at 12:00 AM, Up was released. after that, i wouldn't be able to pay attention to my bird. (yes i checked, alfred was still broadcasting when 12 rolled by) well, i don't have lightwave on my hackintosh so i went downstairs to the basement PC <insert basement pc here> here it is. i have yet to put the patches on his neck, chest, and wings. in wireframe i pressed tab to turn on subsurface mode quad mode i turned off subsurface mode because i seen how bad it was with it on how do you like it? he's HUGE! he's 7 feet tall (waaay taller then me)!

[Adam]

Your basement PC is one HUGE fire hazard...

[ninja9578]

Nicely done, you gonna UV Map and texture it?

[peacock486]

you gonna UV Map and texture it? is doing that as hard as actually modeling it?

[ninja9578]

I always found UV Mapping the hardest part of the process, modeling and texturing is easy.

[peacock486]

i don't even know what UV mapping is.

[SomeDreamer]

Well basically it's when you take the 3D object and make a 2D representation of it, and when you've done that, you can use the UV map to texture the object since you got it mapped out for your texture.

[peacock486]

so do i have to turn it into a 2d object again? can i just use the background?

[mrdeano]

so do i have to turn it into a 2d object again? can i just use the background? I think hes trying to say that UV mapping is basically adding a skin or texture to your model. You get an image and sort of 'wrap' it around the model. At least I think anyway.

[peacock486]

I always found UV Mapping the hardest part of the process, modeling and texturing is easy. modeling is easy!? when i did it, it was the hardest, most tedious thing i've ever done in my life. i might not even want to try to UV map it. unless i want no hair. i had to meticulously, delicately arrange tons of DOTs of all things in three dimentions, then select ALL of them, three at a time to join them.