I’ve just finished modeling the car seat. I’ve moved some of the vertices up a little bit to give it a plumper shape.

The strap from the seatbelt was made by assigning a Path Deform modifier which sets the geometry to follow along a path (purple spline).

Tags: 3D, Car.

Here’s my first attempt at modeling a car tyre and I’m quite pleased with the result. I’ve tried to put as much detail as I could with the caliper and brake disc, the treads could be improved with a better detail design but there won’t be much visible so it should be okay as it is.

To create the treads of the tyre I used plane geometry to make one horizontal part and cloned it several times to make a long strip, I’d then attach them all and welded the vertices together. To wrap it up I used the Bend modifier which makes it into a full circle.

Tags: 3D, Car.

Here’s a working scene of a simple modern bathroom using some design ideas from a few furniture catalogues.

Tags: 3D, Interior.

Here’s an interactive panoramic image of the city of Nottingham viewed from the top of Nottingham castle on a nice sunny day. The panorama is made up of 9 photos spanning 180° of surrounding views in Nottingham.

The camera used in this image was a Canon EOS 20D dSLR. Since I did not have a tripod around on the day, I used the horizon as a reference point to keep all the photos roughly at an even level throughout.

In the photomerge tool of Photoshop, I’ve chosen the cylindrical option as it created the best stitching result. I was really surprised with the outcome of the panoramic image as the merging on the photos were faultless and no adjustments were needed.

What I like about this panorama is the different type of buildings it has on either sides, the left side having older factory buildings and on the right side there’s newer commercial buildings. I particularly like the contrast of the orange tone on the left and the grey tone on the right.

The large white bulding at the centre of the image and the forest on the horizon produces a central focal point and creates some nice interest to the piece.

Tags: Interactive, Panorama, Photography.

Here is the second interactive panoramic image showing the other computer room situated in the Bonington building. The same method were used to create both panoramic pieces.

The trickiest part in the making of these panoramas was joining the ends together. The lighting on either ends were different and a seam can be seen, they also overlapped each other and so the duplicate area had to be cropped.

To create a seamless 360° panorama I’ve copied one of the ends and pasted it on the other side, I’ve then added a layer mask and applied a horizontal black and white gradient on the mask to gradually fade the top layer with the background.

Tags: Interactive, Panorama, Photography.