{"id":767,"date":"2009-07-04T08:23:56","date_gmt":"2009-07-04T07:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raykit.co.uk\/blog\/?p=767"},"modified":"2009-07-06T01:23:14","modified_gmt":"2009-07-06T00:23:14","slug":"3d-bass-guitar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/raykit.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/07\/04\/3d-bass-guitar\/","title":{"rendered":"3D &#8211; Bass Guitar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"3D Rickenbacker Bass Guitar 1\" href=\"http:\/\/raykit.co.uk\/blog\/images\/raykitshum_3d_guitar_bass_01.jpg\"  rel=\"lightbox[roadtrip]\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/raykit.co.uk\/blog\/images\/_raykitshum_3d_guitar_bass_01.jpg\" alt=\"3D Rickenbacker Bass Guitar 1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[Model: Rickenbacker 4003]<\/p>\n<p>Here are the finished rendered images of the bass guitar. You can view the WIP images of this model by <a href=\"http:\/\/raykit.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/02\/21\/3d-bass-guitar-wip\/\">clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"3D Rickenbacker Bass Guitar 2\" href=\"http:\/\/raykit.co.uk\/blog\/images\/raykitshum_3d_guitar_bass_02.jpg\"  rel=\"lightbox[roadtrip]\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/raykit.co.uk\/blog\/images\/_raykitshum_3d_guitar_bass_02.jpg\" alt=\"3D Rickenbacker Bass Guitar 2\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are a range of colours available for the Rickenbacker guitars which I could base my model on. I decided to go for the most popular range and also the most interesting to texture; the fireglow paint job, which is a burst of 2 tones of red with wood grains showing underneath.<\/p>\n<p>It was fairly simple to achieive the fireglow look in Photoshop using the various blending modes and gently paint brushing the surrounding edges with masking on the outside.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"3D Rickenbacker Bass Guitar 3\" href=\"http:\/\/raykit.co.uk\/blog\/images\/raykitshum_3d_guitar_bass_03.jpg\"  rel=\"lightbox[roadtrip]\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/raykit.co.uk\/blog\/images\/_raykitshum_3d_guitar_bass_03.jpg\" alt=\"3D Rickenbacker Bass Guitar 3\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The pearl texture on the fret markers was done from scratch using several tools such as cloud and sponge filters.<\/p>\n<p>A gradient texture was used on the bump map of the strings to achieve the right look and a radial bump map was used to create the anisotropic effect of the metal on the control dials.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"3D Rickenbacker Bass Guitar 4\" href=\"http:\/\/raykit.co.uk\/blog\/images\/raykitshum_3d_guitar_bass_04.jpg\"  rel=\"lightbox[roadtrip]\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/raykit.co.uk\/blog\/images\/_raykitshum_3d_guitar_bass_04.jpg\" alt=\"3D Rickenbacker Bass Guitar 4\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The lightings used in the scene were 1 vray dome light with HDRI, 2 spotlights and a omni light. The spotlights were positioned according to where the lights were in the HDRI.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"3D Rickenbacker Bass Guitar 5\" href=\"http:\/\/raykit.co.uk\/blog\/images\/raykitshum_3d_guitar_bass_05.jpg\"  rel=\"lightbox[roadtrip]\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/raykit.co.uk\/blog\/images\/_raykitshum_3d_guitar_bass_05.jpg\" alt=\"3D Rickenbacker Bass Guitar 5\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The images were rendered in V-Ray with Adaptive subdivision and took just under an hour each to render, then put into Photoshop for some final touches. Overall, I&#8217;m pleased with how well the finished renders turned out in the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Model: Rickenbacker 4003] Here are the finished rendered images of the bass guitar. You can view the WIP images of this model by clicking here. There are a range of colours available for the Rickenbacker guitars which I could base my model on. I decided to go for the most popular range and also the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[62,15,25],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/raykit.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/raykit.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/raykit.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/raykit.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/raykit.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=767"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"http:\/\/raykit.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":774,"href":"http:\/\/raykit.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions\/774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/raykit.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/raykit.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/raykit.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}