Treasure Chest

The Treasure Chest Modeling Project

The Reference Image

To start, let's take a look at my reference image. It is a computer graphic, unfortunately, but I really liked the design.

References:

My chest was modeled after the image found above. It was taken from this site!

My gold coins, rings, and goblet were all downloaded from 3drender.com. It was a great tool and was fun to scale the different objects down. The gold coins proved to be particularly useful.

Closed Chest

I used two light sources for an eerie look. Working with the shadowing, custom textures for the metal bolts, and building the custom lock was tough, but rewarding.

Open Chest

Thanks to 3dRender.com, I was able to quickly download some gold coins and the goblet. I did rearrange the coins (I wanted stacks), but it was easy to work with and really made the whole project look great.

Front Wireframe

You'll note the literal hundreds of coins in and around the chest.

Back Side Wireframe

I liked this particular because of the way it shows off the "bolts" in the chest. The 60ish bolts were by far the most tedious part of the chest, but it was fun to mess around with.

Top View Wireframe

Side View Wireframe with Grid to show scale

The wireframes were especially cool to look at after the items were added. It really shows off the depth of the chest, as well as the individual components that make it up.

Final Render

Front View

Side View

Other Side View

Honesty Hour

Unfortunately, the renderings you see are just screenshots from the render window. The lighting upon export to PNG was strange & dark. (See the images to the right).

Lighting Issues #1

Though I am not sure why, when I exported this model, the entire image got much, much darker. Strange!

Lighting Issues #2

Though I am not sure why, when I exported this model, the entire image got much, much darker. Strange!

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