mike ricks 3d blog

So on to materials and i gotta say this turned out pretty good pretty quick. just started initially adding materials to random bits here i had the drum set mostly added with materials now I'm just refining i think this was my first render more adding little more refining and the drum set is mostly added to materials i am going to still need to add details here and there and refine the materials a little bit more to really make it pop.

Okay modeling is complete for me as i figured out how to make the chains after looking at a chain i figured its more simple than i thought. i took a cylinder  made a lip and bridged the gap between took another cylinder to make the outer parts then it was a simple as duplicating the pair then i just had to by hand bend around the other bit (official term) with modeling more or less done i organised all the models into groups then moved around so they looked like a reasonable set up (atleast i think it does) now on to materials.

so i just finished the pedals for the bass drum and cymbals. i organised all the current models into groups  start of the pedal from a cube then duplicated it extracted the back bit to turn into a hinge then added a couple cylinders i took a cube and stretched it to make some foot grips then i made the last bits by modifying the cylinder and adding a smooth sphere. then just modified it to fit in the cymbal. ill probably need some time and help  to figure out how to make either a chain or something to attach to the pedals.

I definitely hammered out most of the modeling of the drum set  So heres me breaking the tripod ino threes then  melding the 3 bits making a bolt thing for the joint then just tripling and making a tripod   then added some details to the symbol   here i took a bit from the tripod and re purposed it to hold the snare drum same for the larger drum then i finished the stand for the other cymbals  i made the final holder by copying the larger one  i used smaller tripod bit to make a tightener  made the chair at this point i noticed the two top drums were misshaped so i had to adjust those, Maya also crashed for me but fortunately  my save was still good then made holders for the top drums almost complete modeling wise, i just need to make some pedals.

think i made some decent progress today made a drumstick by modeling a cylinder and smoothing it i think i got a decent scale for it without actually seeing on in person got started on the first of the tripods, i should be able to triple it after making the cylinder 21 faces and thats my progress for today. i forgot to bring the reference on my drive but thankfully i was able to google it.

okay so here is some more progress so starting off with taking the bass drum ad duplicating and making the smaller drums because they are all the same design just different sized  now i doing the symbols which i used a plane and after making the shape i extruded it then finished that with making all the cymbols and drums by duplicating and adjusting size

Okay so I finally got around to working on the drum set. I could not seem to find any direct front side reference images so I just grabbed the best pics I could find.    Just starting with the base drum, nothing special just a cylinder with a lip created on both ends   here I'm starting with the little lip tightening bits, started with a plane from the drup then broke it up to two pieces and booleand a cylinder after I made what looks like a bolt to tighten I gigure out how to get then oriented around the lip by playing with the mirror, duplicate and combining and rotating. I'm certain theres an easier way to do it but I figure it out.  then I combine two cylinders at an angle to make the legs then just played with the oh so lovely extrude tool to get what looks like an extending leg with a rubber bit at the end   then just mirrored, base drum effectively done.

im not gonna lie I've been feeling like crap lately so i cant finished the very last two lessons because i can't get the backgrounds to work and i am just not going to have time to finish it today.. but i think i understand the gist of the arnold rendering my future blogs will be more updated and organized