The Light Of My Life..!!!!

Part 2...
Today the modeling & LIGHTING continues, i just began looking at some candleStick's online as reference and to get some sense of idea's in designing one of these things. Modeling the candleStick, was done using the surface/revolving technique, which i personally found so much more easyer & can i say alot more comfortable, complimented with alot of less-stress.
The completed look of the candlestick is the image posted on the left & another with an added candle & wick on top.
Modeling this was good practice, your able to go alittle nuts with the design just as long as the shape has more curves than 3-point polygons.

I continued to play around with the design, working from the top-to-bottom using the scaling & extrude tool, until i was happy with a completed shape structure.
The candle however, was ever so simple to model. It was just a simple cylinder polygon extruded. Secondly i scaled down the top face, followed by extruding the face up to create the wick...Very easy!!!i must say.....






















A screen shot of the modeled candlestick accompanied with the candle & wick...!!!! (Above)


Half the day gone, came to finally playing/experimenting with some textures & some fun lighting...
I started with the flame, however it was painted on photoshop,mixing 'fire' colours with the blurr or smudge tool.
After that had been done, the file was just saved as tga & attachs to maya through 'lambert,new material', and WHAA-LA..a flame on maya.

Finally i just used the colour palette from the software with some fill effects to bring the wick alive. The candleStick holder was from a lambert colour taken from a marble effect mixed with two tones of brown-ish/yellow.

Lastly i attachs an ambient increasing the glow to the flame to expand the lighting & just kept on test-rending with mental-ray to see the current result until lefted with printed screen shots that i was satisfied with...

But overall i am please how it turned out. By just adding increasing the ambient glow & adjusting the shadows really adds to the appeal of the candle and stick.


Here's the finished results...
More to come
see you then, stay tune....