Day 8

Videos: 17

Total time:   50 minutes

Goals: The Crate (Model and Set-Up).

Alright.  Before even starting this video, I did some more tweaking to the model.  Adding side and top (inner) bracing, as well as the sled beams on the bottom of the crate (remember, when stacking crates of this size, a forklift would be used...and it needs a clear path for the forks).  I also slimmed down the boards all around; I felt they were too thick.  To do this universally (instead of trying to tweak it by eye), select the appropriate vertices, and use the numerics panel to be precise.

Dan goes over consolidating your layers in this video.  However; I would like to point out a personal preference on my part (and this is due to already going through this series before).  I want the decals to show up only on the surface I want them to (you'll see what I mean in later posts), and not bleed into other sides.  As I eluded to earlier; feel free to pause a video at any time and experiment/tweak, there's nothing wrong with that...in fact I would encourage it.  Remember, when you start working on your own projects, you won't have a tutorial running in the background...it's all you.

You'll end this video with setting up the actual floor the crate will rest on, and import it all into Layout (then start the initial camera set-up)

Included the wireframe view this time.  Note the sled beams on the bottom.

Note the slimmed down boards all around.

I slimmed/reduced down the boards by 50mm (on a 200 mm grid).  Looks much better, in my opinion.  At any rate; as you can see by the time I took on this video (which was only 15 minutes long), I did a lot of additional tweaking and adding of geometry to the mesh; till I got what I wanted.

See you tomorrow; when we'll start setting up the scene, lighting and texturing the crate.

-Keith